Monies raised how employed and accounted for.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That where the Justics of the Peace of any County City Borough or other place or the major part of them att their General [X1or] Quarter Sessions shall be fully satisfied that the Co[m]mon Highways Causeys Bridgs Streets or Pavements within any Parish Towneshipp Hamlett or other place within their respective Jurisdiction cannot otherwise be sufficiently amended repaired paved cleansed and supported by means of the Laws now in force without the help of this present Act in all such cases one or more Assessement or Assessements upon all and every the Inhabitants Owners and Occupiers of Lands Houses Tenements and Hereditaments or any Personal Estate usually rateable to the Poor within any such Parish Towneship Hamlett or other place shall be made levied collected and allowed by such person and persons and in such manner as the said Justics by their Order att such Sessions shall direct and appoint in that behalf And the money thereby raised shall be employed and accompted for according to the Orders and Directions of the said Justics for and towards the amending repairing paving cleansing and supporting such Highways Causeys Streets Pavements and Bridgs from time to time as need shall require And the said Assessments shall be levied by distresse and sale of the Goods of every person so assessed (not paying the same within ten days after demand) rendring the overplus of the value of the Goods so distrained to the Owner and Owners thereof (the necessary charges of making and selling such distresse being first deducted).
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