Section XIII Surveyors of Highways when to be chosen as by

2 & 3 P. & M. c.8; their Duty in appointing Days for Work, &c.; to make a Return of Defaulters to Justice, who is to present the same to Quarter Sessions; Offenders to incur Penalty.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and after the nine and twentyeth day. of September next in every Parish within this Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwicke. upon Tweede the Surveyours and Orderers of the worke for amendment of the Highwayes within their respective Parishes shall be yearely chosen and nominated by such persons as by an Act made in the second and third Yeares of King Phillip and Queene Mary is appointed upon some day in the same weeke that the Feast of the Birth of our Lord commonly called Christmas day shall be: Which persons soe nominated and chosen shall take upon them the said Office and shall appoint six dayes for the provideing Stones, Gravell and other Materialls for the amendment of and for workeing in the Highwayes haveing respect to the Season of the Yeare and the Weather, and giveing Notice publiquely some convenient time before the severall dayes; at which dayes all persons lyable to the said Worke shall attend and worke accordingly: And the said Surveyours and Orderers shall make Returne of the Defaulters and every of them within one moneth after every defaulte made, to some neighbouring Justice of the Peace of the same County; and the said Justice shall present the same at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace held next after such Returne made unto him; And the Offenders against this Act in all cases not perticularly directed in this Act, shall respectively incurr the same Forfeitures, Paines and Penaltyes inflicted and appointed by the Lawes and Statutes of this Kingdome now in force for the amending of the Highwayes as fully as if they had beene perticularly mentioned and imposed in and by this Act.