Land Tax Act 1691

XLV. Officers of Exchequer to keep Accounts of the said £1,000,000 distinct.

Regulations as to issuing such Money to Treasurer of the Navy and Treasurer of the Ordnance.

And itt is hereby further enacted That the Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer respectively shall and are hereby required to keepe the said Summe of Tenne hundred thousand pounds hereby appropriated and the accompt thereof distinct from all other Moneys, and Accompts whatsoever And that the Lord High Treasurer UnderTreasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the tyme being or any of them respectively doe not signe any Warrant or Order or doe any Matter or Thing for the issueing or paying any parte of the said Summe of Tenne hundred thousand Pounds by this Act appropriated to any Person or Persons other then the Treasurer of the Navy or his Deputy and the Treasurer of the Ordnance or his Deputy for the Uses aforesaid Nor shall the Auditor of the Receipt draw any Order whatsoever for the issueing any parte of the said Summe of Tenne hundred thousand Pounds hereby appropriated to any Person or Persons other then the said Treasurer of the Navy or his Deputy and the Treasurer of the Ordnance or his Deputy as aforesaid Nor shall hee direct or the Clerke of the Pells Record or any Teller make Payment of any of the said appropriated money by vertue of any Warrant or upon any Order or other Way or Device whatsoever other then to the Persons and for the Uses aforesaid and to bee soe mentioned and expressed in such Warrant or Order.