Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667

III. Commissioners to appoint Places of Sitting and Officers.

Clerks, &c. to be sworn.; Salary to Clerks.; Commissioners to make Returns to the King, and also to the Parliament, if sitting; and may finally determine Accounts, &c.; Their Judgments to be certified into the Exchequer.

And for the better execution of this present Act the said Commissioners or any five or more of them are hereby authorized to meet and sitt from time to time with or without Adjournment and in such place and places as they shall thinke convenient X1 to call to theire assistance appoint and imploy such Clerks and Officers as they shall thinke meet and to give to every of the said Clerks and Officers an Oath for his true and faithfull Demeanour in all things committed to his trust and performance by the said Commissioners and in all other things touching the Premisses which Clerks and Officers are hereby required faithfully to execute and perform the trust in them reposed severally and respectively without taking any thing for such theire Service other then such Salary or Reward as the [X2 said] Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall thinke fitt to direct in that behalfe under pain of forfeiting theire respective Offices Places and Salaries And the said Commissioners are hereby required from time to time as they shall see cause and at the determinatc[i]on of theire Examinac[i]ons and Proceedings by vertue of this Act to give an accompt thereof in Writing under any five or more of theire Hands and Seales to the Kings Majestie and to both Houses of Parliament if then sitting that so his Majestie may receive a full and true accompt how the said moneys and other things have been disbursed or disposed of for his Service or otherwise and that such punishment may be inflicted upon the Offenders and such further order taken in the premisses as to Justice shall appertain And the said Commissioners or any five or more of them may and are hereby authorized upon consideration of the deposic[i]ons and prooffs before them to heare the parties concerned and theire Councel and finally to judge and determine of all the said Accompts frauds exactions negligences defaults and abuses and to allow of such of the said accompts and discharge such Accomptants as to them in theire judgements shall seeme just and meet and to certifie such theire Judgement Order and Determination by Writing in Parchment under theire Hands and Scales into his Majesties Court of Exchequer which Court is hereby authorized and required thereupon to issue and make out his Majesties Process of that Court for the levying of all such Debts and Moneys, as shall be due or payable to his Majestie by meanes of such Judgement Order or Determination as speedily and effectually to all intents and purposes as if the same had accrued or growed due to his Majestie by the immediate Judgement Order or Decree of that Court.

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.