Mutiny Act 1692

XXX. How Accounts are to be kept betwixt Paymaster of the Army and Colonel of every Regiment, &c.

Penalty.

And be it enacted That there shall be an exact accompt of all [X1 moneys] due according to the Muster Rolls to every Regiment in Their Majesties Service made upon the First day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety three or six day's after between the Pay-master General of the Army for the time being and Colonel of every such Regiment or the Agent by such Colonel respectively appointed and authorized to receive the Pay thereof from the First of March in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety two to the last of Aprill One thousand six hundred ninety three both inclusive and so successively from time to time when Foure Months become due an Account shall be stated as aforesaid for the two preceeding months And after the said Account shall be so made upp and perfected it shall be registred in a Booke to be kept for that purpose in the Pay-Office and there subscr[X2 ib]ed by such Pay-master General or his Deputy and the Colonel or Agent of the Regiment who together with the said Pay-master made upp the same And a Duplicate thereof by them respectively signed shall be given to the said Colonel or Agent without any Fee or Reward to be paid for the same Which Colonel or Agent shall deliver to each Captain of the Regiment an Account of so much thereof as respectively appertaineth to him and his Troop or Company and the inferior Officers and Soldiers thereof And the ballance which shall remain upon [X2 makeing up] every such Account as aforesaid and alsoe all other money as shall then become due to every such Regiment shall be by the said Pay-master General paid to the said Colonel or Agent respectively att such time as His or Her Majesty shall direct And the Pay-master General for the time being offending herein shall lose and forfeit for every such offence the Sum of One hundred pounds to any person or persons who will sue for the same in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record and if any Deputy of the said Pay-master or any Agent of a Regiment shall offend in the premisses upon proofe thereof made to a Court Martial such Deputy or Agent shall ipso facto loose his place And if any Colonel of a Regiment shall offend therein such Colonel shall forfeite for every such offence the su[m]me of One hundred pounds to any person or persons who will sue for the same to be recovered as aforesaid

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.