Rebuilding of London Act 1666

XXXVIII. Books of Account of the Duty, and Application thereof.

Persons concerned to have free Access to such Books without Fee.; Copy of Books to be delivered by Chamberlain into the Exchequer, where Access may be had without Fee.

And to the end the Moneyes to be raised upon the Imposition aforesaid may be duely applyed to the uses for which the same is by this Act appointed, Bee it further enacted that there shall [X1 be] from time to time X2 provided and kepte in the Chamber of London one or more booke or bookes of Velome or Parchment in which all moneyes thereupon to be received shall from time to time be entred and sett downe, And alsoe other like booke or bookes wherein the Accompts of all payments and disbursements out of the same shall be likewise entred, expressing the time when, the occasion for which, and the name of the person or persons to whom the same were soe paid or disbursed And that it shall and may be lawfull to and for all and every person and persons that shall or may be in any wise concerned soe to doe to have free accesse unto and view the said respective bookes of Receipts and Disbursements at all times when the Chamberlaines Office is open without any Fee or Reward to be taken or demanded for the view or inspection thereof And that the Chamberlaine of London for the time being before the end of Michaelmas Terme in every yeare shall transmit and upon his Oath deliver into the Receipte of the Exchequer a true Copy or Duplicate of the aforesaid bookes of Accompts containing the Receipts and Disbursements of all Moneyes which shall be raised and paid by or out of the said Imposition upon Coales in the yeare preceeding and ending upon the fower and twentyeth day of June next before there to be received gratis by the proper Officer and kepte amongst the Records of the said Court; where it shall alsoe be lawfull for any person or persons who shall be in any wise concerned soe to doe to have accesse thereunto and to view and peruse the said bookes of Accompts without any Fee or Reward to be taken or received for the same.

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: be O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]