# Bristol Roads and Avon and Frome Navigation Act 1698, Section XIV: Surveyors and Collectors to account yearly to the Persons herein mentioned, and pay over Money in Hand to succeeding Surveyor; refusing or neglecting to account or pay, committed.


And be it further enacted That such Summ or Summs of Money as shall be assessed and collected in the said Parishes or Precincts for cleansing the Streets shall be Yearly accounted for by the said Surveyors or Collectors thereof for the Time being to Two or more of the Justices of the Peace of the said City the Mayor for the Time being or the Alderman of each respective Ward or Precinct to be one within Ten Daies after the Election of the new Surveyors of the High waies for the ensueing Yeare and such Summ or Summs of Money as shall be remaining in their Hands shall be by them paid over to the next succeeding Surveyor of the High waies elected and appointed for such Parish or Precinct And the Mayor for the Time being and any Two Justices of the Peace of the said City shall and may by vertue hereof committ to Prison such Surveyors or Collectors who shall refuse or neglect to account or pay the Money remaining in his or their Hands there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill he or they have made a true Account and satisfied and paid soe much as upon the said Account shall be remaining in his or their Hands

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/23/section/XIV (the official version)
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