House of Commons (Disqualification) Act 1693

LIII. A particular Officer appointed by the Treasury in the Exchequer for the Payment of these Annuities.

Security to be taken from such Officers.; Fund how issued.; Such Officer to be subject to the Rules of the Treasury.

And whereas by reason of the multiplicity of payments which are to bee made in pursuance of this Act it will bee difficult (if not impossible) that every particular payment should bee directed recorded paid and accounted for by the several Officers of the receipt of the Exchequer in the ordinary course of payments there used Therefore and to the end that the Exchequer may bee regularly discharged of all the moneys of the several rates and duties before mentioned which shall bee brought into the same for the said Fond Bee it enacted by the authority aforesaid That there shall bee in the said Receipt of the Exchequer a distinct Office for paying the annuities or benefitts by this Act appointed to bee paid and some convenient room or rooms in or neare the receipt of the Exchequer att Westminster shall bee prepared assigned and used for that purpose which Office shall continue untill all the payments to grow due by this Act dureing the said terme of sixteen yeares shall bee satisfied And an Officer or Officers shall bee appointed thereunto from time to time by the Commissioners of their Majesties Tresury now being or by the Tresurer of the Exchequer or Commissioners of the Tresury for the time being who shall alsoe take security according to the best of their judgments and discretions from every or any 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 faithful 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 bee brought into the receipt of the Exchequer as abovesaid shall by the Commissioners of their Majesties Tresury and [X1 the] Under Tresurer of the Exchequer now being or by the Tresurer or Under Tresurer of the Exchequer or Commissioners of the Tresury for the time being without any further or other Warrant to bee sued for had or obtained from their Majesties their Heires or Successors and in such proportions from time to time as shall bee necessary and sufficient to answer the respective payments which shall grow due and are to bee made by the said particular Officer or Officers bee issued or 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 annuities or benefitts by this Act appointed to bee paid And that such particular Officer and Officers shall apply the same thereunto in such manner and forme as are above mentioned and by this Act directed in that behalfe and shall bee subject and liable to such inspection examination comptroll and auditt and to such rules in respect of his paying accounting and other matters relateing to the execution of his Office as the said Co[m]missioners of the Tresury now being or the Tresurer and Under Tresurer of the Exchequer or the Commissioners of the Tresury 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 bee concerned therein Any thing in this present Act contained or any law custome usage or course of the Exchequer to the contrary notwithstanding.

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X1 interlined on the Roll.