Debts Due to the Army, etc. Act 1698

XV. Treasury to issue by way of Imprest, £ 1,500 for Payment of Clerks, &c.,

and £400 to each Commissioner.

And be it further enacted That the Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury or Lord High Treasurer of England for the Time being are hereby authorized and required to issue and cause to be paid by way of Imprest all such Summs of Money not exceeding Fifteene hundred Pounds to such Person or Persons as the said Commissioners appointed by this Act or any Three or more of them shall by Writing under their Hands desire or direct out of X1 the Duties or Revenues which by any Act of this Session of Parliament are made liable to the Payment of other Summs of Money for the Service of His Majesties Navy Ordnance Guards and Garrisons (as well as the Summs to be paid to those Uses respectively) to be imployed in and for the Payment of Clerks and other Officers and in defraying the necessary Charge in or about the Execution of the Powers of this Act And alsoe the further Summe of Four hundred Pounds to each Commissioner in this Act named without Account for his and their Care and Pains in the Execution of this Act the same to be paid by Quarterly Payments from the said Tenth Day of Aprill One thousand seaven hundred

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