Gloucestershire Roads Act 1697

IV. Surveyors, at the Quarter Sessions next after their Year, to account.

Surplus of Money to be paid to Successor.; Allowance to Surveyor, &c.; Collector not paying to Surveyor, or Surveyor not accounting; Quarter Sessions, upon Confession of Party, or Oath of Two Witnesses, to proceed; Imprisonment until Account and Payment.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors & every of them att the Quarter Sessions next after the Determination of the Yeare for which they were chosen shall give an Account to the Justices att the said Quarter Sessions in Writing of all such Moneys as have been received by them and of all Disbursements made by them to the end that if there shall be any Overplus of the Money by them received the same may be paid to the Surveyors chosen or to be chosen for the Yeare ensuing to be by them disbursed towards amending the said Highway or repaying such Persons who shall beforehand lend Money thereto and not otherwise which said Justices shall out of the Benefitt of the said Toll make such reasonable Allowance to the said Surveyor or Surveyors for their Care and Pains in executing the said Offices and to such other Persons as shall have been asisting in amending the said Highways or advancing or laying out Moneys in relation thereunto as to them shall seem meet And in case the Collector or Receiver of the aforesaid Toll shall not upon request duely pay the same unto the said Surveyor or Surveyors for the time being or in case the said Surveyors or any of them shall not make such Account and Payment unto the several Person and Persons according to the Order Direction & Appointment of the said Justices as aforesaid that then the said Justices att any Quarter Sessions to be holden for the said County shall make enquiry concerning such Default as well by Confession of the said Parties themselves as by Testimony of two or more credible Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer and if any Person or Person shall be thereof convicted the said Justices upon such Conviction shall co[m]mitt the Party or Parties so convict to the co[m]mon Goal of the said County there to remayne without Bayl or Mainprize until hee or they shall have made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid.