{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696/section-XII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/15",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Surrey and Sussex Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-surrey-and-sussex-act-1696",
  "path": "section/XII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XII",
  "heading": "Quarter Sessions for Surrey and Sussex may appoint yearly Three Persons of each County to survey ruinous Lanes, and examine Surveyors' Accounts.",
  "text": "If Misapplication of Monies, &c. Judges of Assise to determine the same.\nAnd be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Justices of the Peace att their General Quarter Sessions to be holden for the County of Surrey and also the Justices of the Peace att the General Quarter Sessions to be holden for the County of Sussex yearely and every yeare after the Feast of the Epiphany if they think fitt to appoint Three Persons of each County respectively to survey and view the said ruinous Lanes and Ways and to examine the Accounts of the Surveyors of the same Lanes and Ways by this Act from time to time appointed and the Duties and Tolls received in pursuance of this Act and to enquire how the Monies so received have been from time to time employed and laid out in pursuance of this Act and in case they find any Misapplication of the Moneys levied by this Act or any Abuses of the Powers and Authorities to them limitted as aforesaid thereupon to certifie the same to the Judges of Assize att the next Assizes to be held for the said County of Surrey who are hereby authorized and impowered to heare examine and finally determine the same without any further or other Appeal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/15/section/XII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:18.687740+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}