Section II Surveyors to view Highways, &c.; Penalty £5.

and to consider what Repairs wanting, and the Cost thereof; and, together with Householders, lay Assessment,; not exceeding 6d. in the Pound in one Year.; Assessments to be allowed and signed by Justice.; Persons not paying Assessment to pay Double.; Proviso.; Surveyors to see that Nuisances are reformed.; Surveyors to hire Labourers, &c. yearly.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Surveyor and Surveyors within Twenty Dayes next after notice given unto him or them of his and theire Election as aforesaid or of the Publication of this Act shall upon the penalty of five pounds view and survey all the Co[m]mon and Publique High Wayes and Bridges within the Parish Town Village or Hamlett wherein he or they are respective Surveyor or Surveyors and all Watercourses Causeys and Pavements therein which are to be repaired and amended at a Publique Charge of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlett and shall consider what Reparations shall be needfull to bee made and what Sum or Su[m]ms of money will be requisite to be raised for the amending repairing and enlargeing of the same over and above what will be done by the other Lawes made for the amending of the said High wayes and thereupon shall togeather with two or more substantiall Householders of the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet called by the Surveyors to theire assistance within ten dayes after such Survey made lay one or more Assessment or Assessments upon every Inhabitant rated to the poore and upon every Occupier of Lands Houses Tythes Impropriate or Appropriate Portions of Tythes Coal Mines and other Mines saleable Underwoods Stock Goods or other personal Estate not being Household stuffe within the said Parish Town Village or Hamlet for the repairing amending and enlargeing of the said Publick and Co[m]mon High wayes as they the said Surveyors and other the substantial Householders or the major part of them shall thinke fitt meet and necessary which said Assessment or Assessments shall not exceed in the whole above the su[m]m of Six pence in the pound in any one yeare according to the reall value of the same and twenty pounds in Money Goods Stock or other personall Estate shall be rated equally to twenty shillings a yeare in Lands And every such Assessment soe made shall within Six dayes after be presented to some Justice of the Peace neare adjoyning to the Parish where it is made to bee seene allowed and signed by him And after such allowance every person so assessed or taxed that shall not within twenty dayes after demand made by the Surveyors or one of them pay such sum or su[m]ms of money assessed on him or her or them unto the Surveyors or one of them shall forfeit and pay double so much as he X1she or they are assessed to pay unlesse (upon complaint made to the said Justice of wrong done to such person by that Assessment) the said Justice shall thinke fitt to alter the same And in case where Co[m]mon Nusances are in High wayes or where Ditches or Watercourses adjoyning unto High wayes are not scoured and dressed the said Surveyors shall see the same reformed and the Offenders punished according to Law deducting out of the moneys soe to be raised his reasonable charges for prosecution And for the more effectuall mending the High wayes and Parish Bridges and Streets the Surveyors afore menc[i]oned shall yearely att the most convenient and fitting time betweene the first of May and X2 last of August hire Labourers Workemen Carts and Carriages for amending the High wayes Streets Parish Bridges aforesaid and Water courses and shall cause them to be well and sufficiently mended