Regimental Accounts Act 1808

1808 CHAPTER 128

An Act to repeal so much of an Act, passed in the Forty-fifth Year of His present Majesty, for regulating the Office of Paymaster General, as requires certain Accounts to be examined and settled within certain Periods, by the Secretary at War, and enabling His Majesty to make Orders for examining and settling such Accounts.

[30th June 1808]

WHEREAS an [45 G. 3. c. 58.] Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act to repeal an Act made in the Twenty-third Tear of His present Majesty, for the better "Regulation of the Office of Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, and the more regular Payment of the Army, and for the more effectually regulating the said Office; and certain Provisions are contained in the said Act, as to Periods within which certain Accounts of Agents of Regiments in His Majesty's Forces transmitted to the Secretary at War, are to be examined and settled : And whereas it has been found that the said Provisions cannot be strictly complied with: And whereas the Commissioners appointed to enquire and examine into the Public Expenditure, and the Conduct of Public Business in certain Military Departments, are proceeding in an Inquiry in relation to the War Office, and the Accounts thereof, and as to Regimental Accounts and Expenditures; and it is therefore expedient that the said Provisions of the said recited Act mould be repealed, and that His Majesty mould be empowered to order and direct all such Accounts to be kept and made up, and transmitted and examined and settled by such Person or Persons in such Manner, at such Times, and at such Periods as shall be deemed expedient, so that any of the Regulations which may be suggested by such Commissioners, or which it may be other wife thought proper to adopt, may be- carried into Execution, with the least possible Delay, for the Public Service;

be it therefore enacted, by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,