Section IX Scavengers must account for Monies paid,

and pay the Overplus to succeeding Scavengers. Refusing to account, Imprisonment.

Provided alwayes and bee it enacted That such Sums of Money as shall be yearly assessed and collected in the said Parishes for cleansing the Streets shall be yearly accounted for by the Scavenger for the time being which collected the same to two or more of the next Justices of the Peace for the Place resideing in or neere to the respective Places for which such Scavengers were appointed within eight and twenty dayes aftet the Election of new Scavengers for the ensueing yeare And such Summe or Summes as shall be remaining in their Hands shall be by them paid over to the next succeeding Scavengers elected for such Parish And any two such Justices of the Peace as aforesaid shall and may by vertue hereof committ to Prison every one of the said Scavengers which shall refuse to account there to remaine without Baile or Mainprize untill he X1hath made a true Account and satisfied and paid soe much as upon the said Account shall be remaining in his Hands