Marriage Duty Act 1694

XLVI. Receivers General &c. to deliver their Accounts yearly, between 1st May and 1st November, to the Auditors of the Imprest, who are to examine Accountants upon Oath;

and in making such Accounts the said Receivers, &c. are to produce proper Vouchers; Such Accounts to be declared according to the Course of the Exchequer.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That such Receiver or Receivers General or other person or persons who is or shall bee imployed in the receiving collecting or paying the several duties upon marriages births and burials and alsoe upon Batchelors and Widdowers by this Act granted shall and are hereby required between the First day of May One thousand six hundred ninety six and the First day of November following and soe from yeare to yeare yearely att those times dureing the continuance of this Act to deliver in their respective accounts thereof to his Majesties auditors of the imprests for the time being or one of them who shall bee and are hereby from time to time respectively authorized to examine upon Oath the said Receiver or Receivers General or other person or persons Accomptants which are or shall bee imployed in raiseing receiveing and collecting the said duties of what su[m]m or su[m]ms of money was or were by them or any of them respectively raised collected or received within the time of such their accounts and likewise what part thereof was by them or any of them paid into the receipt of his Majesties Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seal or Warrant of the Lord High Tresurer or Co[m]missioners of his Majesties Tresury for the time being otherwise paid and to whom and for what Service or Services And in making the said accounts to and before the said Auditors or one of them they are to produce proper vouchers for every su[m]m or su[m]ms of money soe by them or any of them raised received and paid according to the ancient methods of the Exchequer to the end it may appeare upon record what the same amounted to in a yeare for which such account or accounts shall bee made and what thereof was paid and to whom and for what use and service uses and services as aforesaid and what remains unpaid and rests insuper upon each respective Receiver and Collector And such account or accounts soe to bee taken by the said Auditor is and are to bee declared before the Lord Tresurer or Lords Co[m]missioners of the Tresury and Chancellor of the Excheq now and for the time being according to the course of the Exchequer in such cases.