Militia (No. 2) Act 1698

II. 14 Car. II. c. 3. § 6.

12 Car. II. c. 29.; Lieutenants not to lay further Rate for Trophy Money till Quarter Sessions have allowed the Accounts for the last Three Years.

And whereas by an Act made in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Yeares of the Reign of King Charles the Second intituled An Act for ordering the Forces in the severall Counties of this Kingdom it is enacted that for the furnishing Ammunition and other Necessaries the respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any Three or more of them shall have Power to lay fitting Rates upon the respective Counties and Places not exceeding in the whole in any one Year the Proportion of a Fourth Part of One Months Assessment in each County after the Rate of Seaventy thousand Pounds by the Month charged by an Act in the same Year intituled An Act for raising of Seaventy thousand Pounds for the further Supply of His Majesty which Moneys are to be assessed collected and paid by such Persons & according to such Directions as shall be given from Time to Time by the said respective Lieutenants and Deputies or any Three or more of them under the like Penalties and by the like Waies & Means as are prescribed in the said Act for the Seaventy thousand Pounds by the Month. And whereas it is further provided that the said respective Lieutenants shall appoint one or more Treasurer or Treasurers Clerk or Clerks for receiving and paying such Moneys as shall be levied by vertue thereof of all which Receipts and Disbursements the said Treasurer Clerk and Clerks are every Six Months to give their Accounts in Writing upon Oath to the said Lieutenants & their Deputies or any Three or more of them And whereas the said Proportion of a Fourth Part of One Months Assessment hath usually been raised collected and paid in each County annually for and in the Name of Trophy-Money but the Accounts of the Moneys so raised collected and paid have not been transmitted according to the Directions of the said Act Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Lieutenants or their Deputies shall not lay any further Rate or Assessment for the raising of such Trophy Money till the Justices of the Peace or the Major Part of such Justices at their severall and respective Generall Quarter Sessions for their respective Counties Ridings Divisions and Places shall have examined stated and allowed the Accounts of the said Money so raised levied and collected as aforesaid for Three Yeares last past