Taxation Act 1677

XXXIX. Officers of Exchequer to keep distinct Accounts;

and Treasurer, &c. not to sign Warrants, &c. other than to Treasurer of the Navy, &c.; Auditor not to draw Order for issuing to any other than Treasurer of the Navy, &c.; Clerk of the Pells or Teller not to make Payment otherwise than as mentioned in Warrant.

And it is hereby further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the Officers of the Receipt of His Majestyes Exchequer shall keepe all the moneys which shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer by vertue of this Act and the Account thereof distinct from all other moneyes and Accounts whatsoever and shall keepe a perticular Account of the charge of the Building Gunns Rigging and other Furnishing of each of the said Thirty Shipps of Warr hereby directed to bee built as aforesaid And that the Lord Treasurer Under Treasurer or either of them or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being doe not signe any Warrant or Order or doe any other matter or thing for the issueing of any of the said moneys to any person or persons other then the Treasurer of the Navy Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance for the time being and expressing therein that the same is for the Building or for the Gunns Rigging or other Furnishing of the Thirty Shipps of Warr above mentioned, nor shall the Auditor of the Receipt draw any Order for the issueing of any part of the said moneys to any person or persons other then the Treasurer of the Navy Treasurer or Paymaster of the Ordnance as aforesaid nor shall he direct or the Clerke of the Pells record or the Teller make payment of any of the said moneys by vertue of any Warrant or upon any Order or other way or device whatsoever other then to the persons and to the uses aforesaid and to be soe mentioned and expressed in such Warrant and Order