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Highways, etc. Act 1691
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XII.Surveyors laying out Money for Gravel, Stones, &c. to be repaid by an equal Rate to be levied by Distress.
43 Eliz. c. 2.
And whereas divers Parishes and Towneships have not any Gravel Stones Quarries nor any other Materials fitting or convenient for the amending or repaireing of the Highways within the said Parishes and Towneships by reason whereof the Surveyors of the Highways of such Parishes and Towneships are forced to lay out their [X1owne] money for the buying of such Materials as are necessary for that purpose and there being no p[ro]vision made in or by any Law now in force for the reimbursing the said Surveyors the moneys they have so laid out For remedy whereof Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That upon notice given by the Surveyor or Surveyors of the Highways to the Justices of the Peace att their Special Sessions & Oath made of what Sum or Sums of money he or they have or hath so laid [X1out] & expended upon amending and repairing of the said Highways the Justices of the Peace or any two of them att their Special Sessions are hereby impowered by Warrant under their Hands and Seals to cause an equal rate to be made for the reimbursing the said Surveyor or Surveyors the moneys by him or them laid out as aforesaid upon all the Inhabitants of such Parish or Towneships where such moneys are so expended according to the rules & methods prescribed in an Act of Parliament made in the Three and fourtieth yeare of the Reigne of the late Queen Elizabeth intituled An Act for the better relief of the Poor of this Kingdom which Rate being confirmed and allowed by the said Justices in their Special Sessions shall be collected and gathered by the said Surveyor or Surveyors of the Highways And if any person or persons refuse to pay the moneys so assessed on him or them that then the same shall be levied by the said Surveyors by Distresse and Sale of the Goods and Chattells of the persons so refuseing, rendring to the party the Overplus reasonable Charges for makeing the said Distresse first to be deducted.
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