{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697/section-X",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/9/19",
  "legislation_title": "Navigation (Colchester to Wivenhoe) Act 1697",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/navigation-colchester-to-wivenhoe-act-1697",
  "path": "section/X",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "X",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Mayor and Justices for the East Division of Essex to be Commissioners for taking Accounts, &c.; Five Commissioners may summon Collectors, &c. to account upon Oath, which they may administer; and may order Expenditure of Monies collected.; Collectors, &c. refusing to account or pay, imprisoned in the Common Gaol until Account and Payment.\nAnd to the Intent that all and every the Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money which shall be collected and levied by virtue of this Act may be applied for and towards the cutting digging making scowring cleansing widening deepning repaireing amending and maintaining such Channel and River between Wivenhoe and the New Hithe aforesaid Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Mayor of Colchester for the time being and the Justices of the Peace for the East Division of the said County of Essex for the time being shall be Co[m]missioners from time to time for the Purposes aforesaid and to have the Inspection and to take the Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of all such Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money as shall be so collected and levied dureing the Terme aforesaid which said Co[m]missioners or any Five or more of them shall and may from time to time dureing the said Terme call before them such Collector or Collectors Receiver or Receivers and all and every other Person and Persons who shall be or shall have been intrusted with the Collection Receipt Management or Imployment of any the Moneys to be collected or received in pursuance of this Act who shall and are hereby required from time to time to render unto such Co[m]missioners as aforesaid or any Five or more of them a true Account thereof in Writing and shall then make Oath of the truth thereof which said Oath the Co[m]missioners or any Five of them shall have Power to Administer and such Co[m]missioners or any Five or more of them shall and may Order and appoint all such Moneys which shall remaine due upon such Account to be laid out and expended for and towards the Uses and Purposes aforesaid as there shall be cause and in case any such Collector or Collectors Receiver and Receivers or any other Person or Persons who shall be intrusted with such Collection Receipt or Imployment of any such Moneys so to be collected or received shall refuse to give such Account in Writing or to pay the Moneys then due upon such his Account into the Hands of such Person or Persons as the said Co[m]missioners or any Five or more of them shall direct the same to be paid Itt shall and may be lawfull for them or any Five of them by Warrant under their Hands and Seales to co[m]mitt such Collector or Collectors or Person or Persons so refuseing to account or pay what shall be found due upon such Account to the Co[m]mon Goal of the said Towne there to remaine without Bail or Mainprize until hee or they shall give such Account and shall pay such Su[m]m and Su[m]ms of Money as shall be and remaine due upon such Account as aforesaid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/9/19/section/X",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:54.773258+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."
}