Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XLIII. Allowance to Trustees, from 25th March 1700, payable Quarterly, during their Execution of this Act.

Monies to be imprested for paying Salaries of inferior Officers, and for incident Charges; The said Allowances, with the £21,000 for former Purchasers, to be paid out of the Exchequer in Ireland, by the Trustees Warrants, without any other Authority.

Provided alsoe, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That out of the Moneys ariseing by this Act in Ireland, as aforesaid, each and every of the said Trustees (who are herein particularly named) for his Labour, Paines and Service in the Execution of the Trust hereby reposed in him, shall have and receive to his owne Use, a Salary after the Rate of Fifteene hundred Pounds per Annum of like Money, as aforesaid, the same to commence from the Five and twentieth Day of March, One thousand seaven hundred, and to be paid and payable Quarterly by equall Portions, during the Continuance of every such Trustee in the actuall Performance and Execution of his Trust aforesaid; And that out of the same Moneys ariseing in Ireland, as aforesaid, there shall and may be paid to such Person and Persons as the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them shall nominate by way of Imprest, and upon Account, such Summes of Money as shall be necessary to pay the Salaries of inferiour Officers to be imployed under them, and for incident Charges in or for the Performance of this Service, as to them, or any Seaven or more of them, shall seeme meete; And that all the Summes of Money hereby allowed to be paid for Salaries, Rewards and incident Charges as aforesaid, and alsoe the said Summe of Twenty one thousand Pounds for former Purchasers, and all other Summes hereby authorized to be furnished, or supplyed out of the Moneys ariseing by this Act in Ireland as aforesaid, shall and may be issued and paid out of the same, att the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer in Dublin, or by the Hands of any Receivor or Collector of the said Moneys, by the Warrants and Orders of the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, and not otherwise and without any other Warrant or Authority in that behalfe; Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.