Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696

Tellers of the Exchequer on Receipt of Money on Loan, &c. to throw down a Bill into the Talley Court for a Talley to be struck for the same, and be charged with the Sum received.

Teller, &c. refusing to receive or not duly charging himself with Monies lent or paid to the King,; Loss of Office, Incapacity, and Penalty; Tellers Clerks offending,; Penalty and Removal.

For the better Observation of the Course anciently used in the Receipt of the Exchequer and the good sure and regular Methods established enacted or appointed to be observed and kept by the respective Officers and Ministers of the said Receipt in all Matters concerning receipts Payments or other Businesse to be there transacted or performed whereupon the preserving and improving of the publick Creditt do chiefly depend Be it enacted and declared by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authority of the same That from and after the Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven from time to time as any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money whatsoever shall be brought to the Receipt of the Exchequer to be there paid either by way of Loan or advance or for or upon account of any Tax Aid Imposition Revenue or any other Cause or Occasion whatsoever the respective Tellers or Tellers of the said Receipt into whose Office or Offices the same shall be brought or tendred as soon as the said Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money shall be so brought or tendred if the Officers and Ministers belonging to the Talley Court in the said Receipt be then attending or else as soon as the same Officers & Ministers shall be attending for the levying a Talley or Tallies for the same shall without delay receive the said Money so brought or tendred and weighing the same in intire Su[m]ms or otherwise and making due entry of the Weight and Tale thereof (according to the ancient Course) shall throw downe or cause to be throwne downe a Bill or Bills written upon Parchment and signed by such Teller or Tellers into the said Talley Court whereby a Talley or Talleys (according to the nature of the Payment) may be duely levied for the Discharge or Safety of the Kings Subjects or others who shall make such Payments and whereby the said Teller or Tellers may plainly and fairely be charged with the Su[m]m or Su[m]ms so by him or them received as Money in his or their Custody being & remaining within the said Receipt of Exchequer and that any such Teller or Tellers into whose Office or Offices any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money shall be brought or tendred to be lent or paid to the King as aforesaid or any Clerk Substitute or Person imployed or to be imployed by any such Teller or Tellers in the Businesse of his or their Office or Offices shall not for such Money so brought or tendred give any Note importing a Depositum or any other private Note Obligation or Security whatsoever to prevent or hinder the due charging thereof in the Exchequer as aforesaid upon paine that any Teller who shall offend against this Act by neglecting delaying or refusing to receive and duely to charge himselfe with such Money as shall be brought or tendred to be lent or paid to the King as aforesaid or by giving any private Note Obligation or Security for any such Money whereby to prevent or hinder the due chargeing thereof in the Exchequer as this Act requires shall for such Offence forfeit his Office and be disabled to serve his Majesty his Heires or Successors in the same or any other Office or Place of trust whatsoever and moreover for every such Offence shall forfeit and lose double Damages to the King or the Party who shall suffer by such neglect delay refusal prevention or hindrance besides full Costs of Suit to be recovered as is herein after mentioned and that all and every the Clerks Substitutes or Persons imployed or to be imployed by any such Teller in the Businesse of his or their Office or Offices who shall offend against this Act by giving any private Note Obligation or Security for any such Money so brought or tendred to be lent or paid to the King whereby or by means whereof the due chargeing the same or any Part thereof [X1 in the Exchequer] shall be prevented or hindered shall for every such Offence forfeit and lose double the Su[m]m for which such private Note Obligation or Security shall be given (to witt) one Moiety thereof to the King and the other Moiety to such Person and Persons as will inform and sue for the same and shall also for any such Offence be removed and expelled from the said Receipt.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.