Section IV Surveyors to account to Sessions for Monies received from Collectors, and of Disbursements.

Overplus paid to Surveyors for Year ensuing.; Allowance to Surveyors. Collectors or Surveyors not making Payment; Sessions to enquire of Default; and on Conviction, commit to Gaol.

And be it furthere enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Surveyors and every of them att the first special Sessions to be holden for the said Division by force of the said recited Act shall make and yeild up unto the said Justices of the Peace there to be assembled a perfect Account in Writing under their Hands of all Moneys which hee they or any of them have received from the said Collector or Receivor of Toll and likewise of all their Disbursements in and about the said Highway or otherwise by reason of their Offices and in case of any Overplus of Money so received remaine in their Hands shall pay the same to the Surveyors to be chosen for the yeare ensuing to be disbursed and laid out in mending the said Lanes according to the true meaning of this Act and not elsewhere which said Justices to whom such Account shall be given att the said Special Sessions shall out of the Benefitt of the said Toll make such Allowance unto the said Surveyors or Surveyor for and in considerac[i]on of their Care and Pains taken in Execution of their Offices and to such other Person and Persons who have been or shall be assisting in and about procuring the said High-ways to be amended as aforesaid by advancing or laying out any Moneys or otherwise relating thereto as to them shall seem good and in case the Collector or Receiver of the aforesaid Toll so to be paid as aforesaid shall not upon request duely pay the same unto the said Surveyors for the time being so to be appointed as aforesaid or in case the said Surveyors or any of them shall not make such Account & Payment unto the several Person & Persons according to the Order Direcc[i]on and Appointment of the said Justices as aforesaid that then the said Justices att any such Special Sessions to be holden for the said Division shall make Inquiry concerning such Default as well by Confession of the said p[er]ties themselves as by Testimony of Two or more credible Witnesses upon Oath which Oath they are hereby impowered to administer and if any Person, or Persons shall be thereof convicted the said Justices upon such Conviction shall co[m]mitt the Party or Parties so convict to the Co[m]monX1Goal of the said County there to remaine without Bail or Mainprize until hee or they shall have made a true and perfect Account and Payment as aforesaid: