Coal Duties for Rebuilding Saint Paul's Act 1685

VI. Books of Receipts and Disbursements provided and kept.

Free Access to such Books without Fee; Archbishop, &c. to transmit Abstract of Books into the Exchequer yearly; Free Access thereto without Fee.

And to the end the Moneys to be raised upon the Imposition aforesaid may be duely applied to the Uses for which the same is by this Act appointed Bee it further enacted That there shall from time to time be provided and kept by the said Lord Arch-bishop Lord Bishop and Lord Maior or two of them or by their Deputy or Deputyes Officer or Assignes appointed as aforesaid one or more Booke or Bookes of Vellom 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 whome the same were soe paid or disbursed and that it shall and may be Lawfull to and for all and every person or persons that shall or may be in any wise concerned soe to doe to have free accesse unto and view the said respective Books of Receipts and Disbursments at all times when the Office is open without any Fee or Reward to be taken br demanded for view or Inspection thereof. And that the Lord Arch-Bishop Lord Bishop and Lord Maior for the time being or any two of them before the end of Michaelmas Terme in every yeare after the yeare One thousand six hundred eighty-seven shall transmitt and deliver into the Receipt of Exchequer a true Abstract of the aforesaid Books of Accompts containing the Receipts and Disbursments of all Moneys which shall be raised and paid by or out of the said Imposition upon Coals in the yeare preceeding and ending upon the Foure and twentyeth day of June next before there to be received gratis by the proper Officer and kept amongst the Records of the said Court where it [X1 shall] be Lawfull for any Person or Persons who shall be in anywise 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.

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