Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

XLII.

A distinct Office appointed in the Exchequer for Payments under this Act; and Officers appointed by the Treasury; Monies of the Fund appointed by this Act to be paid by the Treasury without further Warrant; Officers to apply the same as herein mentioned, and to be subject to Inspection, &c. as the Treasury shall order.

And whereas by reason of the Multiplicity of Payments which are to be made in pursuance of this Act it will be difficult (if not impossible) that every particular Payment should be directed recorded paid and accounted for by the several Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer in the ordinary Course of Payment there used Therefore and to the end that the Exchequer may be regularly discharged of all the Moneys of the several Rates and Duties before mentioned which shall be brought into the same for the said Fund be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That there shall be in the said Receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the Benefitts by this Act appointed to be paid and some convenient Room or Rooms in or neare the Receipt of the Exchequer att Westminster shall be prepared assigned and used for that Purpose which Office shall continue untill all the Payments to grow due by this Act be satisfied and an Officer or Officers shall be appointed thereunto from time to time by the Co[m]missioners of His Majesties Treasury now being or by the Treasurer of the Exchequer or Co[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being who shall also take Security according to the best of their Judgements and Discretion from any or every such Officer or Officers for his or their due paying answering and accounting for all the Moneys which hee or they shall receive and for the due and faithfull Performance of his or their Office and Offices respectively And that the Moneys of the Fund by this Act appointed which shall from time to time come or be brought into the Receipt of the Exchequer as abovesaid shall by the Co[m]missioners of His Majesties Treasury and the Under Treasurer of the Exchequer now being or by the Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer or Co[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being without any further or other Warrant to be sued for had and obtained from His Majesty His Heires and Successors and in such proportions from time to time as shall be necessary and sufficient to answer the Payments which shall grow due and are to be made by the said particular Officer or Officers be issued and paid over from time to time to the Hands of such Officer or Officers by way of Imprest and upon Account to and for the Payment of the said Benefitts by this Act appointed to be paid And that such particular Officer and Officers shall apply the same thereunto in such manner and form as are above mentioned and by this Act directed in that behalfe and shall be subject and liable to such Inspection Examination Comptrol and Auditt and to such Rules in respect of his paying accounting and other Matters relating to the Execution of his Office as the said Co[m]missioners of the Treasury now being or the Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer or Co[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being shall think fitt or find necessary or reasonable to establish or appoint from time to time for the better Execution of the Intent and End of this Act and the Satisfaction of Contributors Adventurers or others concerned or to be concerned therein Any thing in this present Act contained or any Law Custome Usage or Course of the Excheq[uer] to the contrary notwithstanding.