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Highways, etc. Act 1691
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VIII.Petty Sessions held every Four Months to receive Presentments, and take Accounts of Surveyors.
Surveyor to pay Surplus Money to Successor.; Penalty.
And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the Justices of the [X1Peace] of every County shall in their respective Divisions once in foure months hold a special Sessions and shall thereunto summon all the Surveyors of the Highways within that Division to come before them and shall give them a charge to do their duty and declare to them what they are obliged to do by virtue of this or any former Act after which the said Surveyors of the Highways shall make a Presentment to them upon Oath which Oath the said Justices are hereby impowered to give of the state and condition of the Highways within their respective Parishes Townes Villages Hamlets Precincts or Tythings for which they are appointed Surveyors and what offences and neglects any are guilty of contrary to the meaning of this or any other Statute made concerning the Highways or any thing relateing thereunto And before any Surveyor of the Highways shall go out of or be discharged from his Office he shall att some such special Sessions of the said Justices to be held as aforesaid give an account upon Oath of all money that has come to his hands which [X1ought] to be employed in amending of the Highways and how he hath disposed of the same And in case any moneys shall remaine in his hands he shall deliver the same to the Surveyors of the Highways that shall serve for the same Parish Town Village Hamlett Precinct or Tything for the yeare ensueing and in case of failure to forfeit the double value of what shall be judged to be in his hands by the said Justices to be levied and disposed of as is aforesaid.
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