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Collectors shall pay into the Bank the sums received each month, and shall furnish finance committee with statements, vouchers of payments, &c.
Collectors improperly collecting, or not using due diligence, may be dismissed.
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103. Every person duly authorized to collect and levy the grand jury cess aforesaid shall on or before the first day of each month, or so often as he shall have received one hundred pounds, pay into the Bank of Ireland, to the credit of the finance committee, the sums he may have received up to such period, and shall furnish to the secretary of the grand jury an account of the sums so received, setting forth particularly any sums received on account of arrears of cess, and shall, at all times when required so to do, exhibit to the finance committee any books, applotments, accounts, or vouchers which they may require; and any collector receiving any sums of money under colour of his warrant, otherwise than according to the applotment, or neglecting or refusing to furnish to the finance committee such information, accounts, and vouchers as they may at any time require, or not using due diligence in the collection of the county rate, may be suspended or dismissed from his office by such finance committee; and immediately upon his suspension or dismissal he shall deliver up to the secretary of the grand jury his warrant, applotment, and all other papers, accounts, or documents of or belonging to his office as collector; and if any such person shall refuse or neglect to deliver up such warrant, applotment, papers, accounts, and documents, when required to deliver them by an order of the finance committee, it shall be lawful for the finance committee to direct the secretary of the grand jury to summon such person before any justice of the peace for the said county, who may commit such person to the county gaol, there to be detained till such documents be delivered up: Provided always, that no collector shall be dismissed as aforesaid without a special summons of the said finance committee by the secretary of the grand jury, and that at such special meeting not less than five members do constitute a quorum.
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