Fire-Hearth and Stoves Taxation Act 1662

XII. Assessments, (except Allowances) to be duly paid into the Exchequer,

and not charged with Pensions, &c. Grants of such Pensions declared void, and Grantees made Accountants to the Crown.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Revenue and su[m]m of money ariseing by vertue of this X1 (except what shall be allowed to the aforesaid Officers and Ministers for collecting the same) shall be duly and constantly paid and answered into His Majesties Court of Exchequer and shall not be particularly charged or chargeable either before it be paid into the Exchequer or after with any Gift Grant or Pension whatsoever And that all and every Grants of any such Pensions and all and every clause of Non obstante therein contained shall be and is hereby declared to bee utterly void and all and every the persons to whom such Grants are passed shall bee and are hereby made Accomptants unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors and shall pay backe all su[m]ms of money received by p[re]tence of such Grant and the Court of Exchequer shall be and is hereby enjoyned to issue out Process accordingly

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Act O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]