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Said corporations shall once in 3 years lay before chief governors and council account of produce, and how applied;
on oath of the officer, if required,
Account also on oath every Lent assizes.
Penalty for not accounting 1001.
by a jury of county of Dublin,
to informer, and the work-house in such port.
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IX. And to the end that the same may be effectually done; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the mayor, sheriffs, and commonality of the said city of Cork, the mayor, sheriffs, and free burgesses and commonality of the town and county of the town of Galway, the provost, burgesses, and commons of the town of Sligo, the mayor, sheriffs, burgesses, and commons of the town and county of the town of Drogheda, and the sovereign and free burgesses of the town of Belfast, shall once in every three years respectively lay before the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors, and the privy council of this kingdom, a true and perfect account of the annual produce of the said respective sums of money as aforesaid charged, and also how the same have been applied; which account shall be upon oath of the officer or officers concerned in the receiving or paying thereof (if so be, that they shall be thereunto required) and the said officer and officers so employed in receiving or paying the same shall likewise every Lent assizes return his and their accounts upon oath before the going judge or judges of assizes of the several counties, wherein the said ports respectively lye; and in case any of the persons aforesaid shall neglect or refuse to account according to the meaning of this act, he or they for every such neglect or refusal shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds sterling, to be recovered by any person who shall sue for the same in the courts of King’s bench, Common-pleas, or court of Exchequer, by bill, plaint, or information, in which no essoign, nor any more than one imparlance shall be allowed; and the same shall be tryed by a jury of the county of Dublin; one half thereof to be given to the informer, and the other half to be applyed to the erecting or support of such work-house or work-houses for the linnen manufactory in such of the said ports, as the said forfeitures shall be incurred in as aforesaid.
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