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COMMISSIONERS CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 71

Summary proceedings against officers.

71. If any such collector or other officer fail to render such accounts as
aforesaid, or to produce and deliver up all the vouchers and receipts relating
to the same in his possession or power, or to pay the balance thereof when
thereunto required, or if for five days after being thereunto required he fail
to deliver up to the commissioners, or to any person appointed by them to
receive the same, all papers and writings, property, effects, matters, and
things, in his possession or power, relating to the execution of this or the
special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, or belonging to
the commissioners, then on complaint thereof being made to a justice, ... such
justice ... shall summon such officer to appear before two or more justices,
... at a time and place to be set forth in such summons, to answer such
charge; and upon the appearance of such officer, or upon proof that such
summons was personally served upon him, or left at his last known place of
abode, such justices may hear and determine the matter in a summary way, and
may adjust and declare the balance owing by such officer; and if it appear,
either upon confession of such officer, or upon evidence, or upon inspection
of the account, that any monies of the commissioners are in the hands of such
officer, or owing by him to the commissioners, such justices ... may order
such officer to pay the same ....

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