Section VI Conservators to keep Accounts of Expences, &c. and of Monies received for the Passage of Boats, &c.;

The said Accounts to be brought yearly before the Bishop of Bath and Wells and other Persons herein named, who are to examine the same, and appoint the Distribution of Monies received, &c. for Payment to the said Conservators of. Monies advanced by them, &c; The said Accounts to be made up to 24th June, inclusive, yearly, and examined by the said Bishop, &c. at Quarter Sessions.; The said Bishop and other Persons may summon, and examine upon Oath, touching the said Accounts.; Duplicate of Accounts allowed to be kept amongst the Records of Sessions.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforeaid That a true and perfect Account of all Expences Costs and Charges disburst or to be disburst by the said Conservators or any of them or by their Order and of all Money by them or any of them or by any other by their Appointment to be received for the Passage of Boats Barges or Vessells on the said River or by any other meanes for the makeing and maintaining the said Passage and River navigable and repairing and makeing Bridges over the said River or any thing relating thereunto shall be duely kept and entred in a Book or Books to be provided and kept by the said Conservators for that purpose and that every Yeare the said Books and Account and the Vouchers for the same shall be brought before the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells for the time being and the Justices of the Peace for the said County for the time being or any Five or more of them at such time and place within the said Towne of Taunton or Ten Miles thereof as by them or any Three or more of them shall be appointed then and there to be examined stated corrected and allowed. And the said Lord Bishop and Justices or any Five or more of them are hereby impowered to examine state correct and allow, the said Accounts and to appoint and make Distribution of all that shall have been received that shall, not have been laid out or ordered to have been laid out for the makeing and keeping the said River navigable or the makeing or repaireing Bridges Weares Turnpikes Waies and Passages and other the Ends and Purposes aforesaid to and amongst the said Conservators their Executors Administrators or Assignes in Proportion to the Money advanced by them respectively in the first Place for the Payment and Discharge of the Interest after the Rate aforesaid due to every of them for the Money by each of them advanced and if there be and as often as there shall be any Surplus in the like Proportion for the lessening and in Discharge of the Principall so advanced by them respectively untill the whole Principall and Interest shall be paid and discharged Which Account of the Receipts of every Yeare shall end and be made up to the Twenty fourth Day of June inclusive and shall be examined stated corrected and allowed and Distribution thereupon made by the said Lord Bishop and Justices or any Five or more of them at the next generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace that shall be held for the said County of Somersett after the said Four and twentieth Day of June And the said Lord Bishop and Justices or any Five or more of them (the better to enable them to examine state and correct the said Accounts) are hereby authorized to administer an Oath and to summon before them any Person interested or not interested and examine them upon Oath touching the Truth of any Matter contained in or omitted in the said Books or Account touching any Receipts or Disbursements received or made by virtue of this Act And when the said Account of any Yeare shall have been soe examined stated and allowed by the said Lord Bishop and Justices or any, Five or more of them a Duplicate thereof shall be made signed and sealed by the said Lord Bishop and Justices or any Five or more of them and shall be transmitted to and kept amongst the Records of the Sessions of the Peace of the said County of Somersett.