Public Accounts Act 1694

II. Two of the said Commissioners, before they execute the Office, to take the following Oath; and the other Commissioners to take the same Oath before the said Two Commissioners.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Two of the said Commissioners first named in this Act before they enter upon the Execution of the same shall take an Oath before the Chancellor of the Exchequer or Master of the Rolls for the time being which they and either of them are hereby respectively authorized and required to administer to them the Tenor whereof shall bee as followeth (that is to say.

I. A. B. doe sweare That according to the best of my Skill and Knowledge I shall faithfully impartially and truely demeane my selfe in examining and taking the Accounts of all such su[m]m or su[m]ms of money and other things brought or to bee brought before mee in execution of one Act intituled An Act for appointing and enableing Commissioners to examine take and state the publick Accounts according to the tenor and purport of the said Act.

And every other of the said Commissioners hereby constituted before hee enters upon the Execution of the said Act shall likewise take the same Oath before the said Two Commissioners herein first named who are hereby authorized and required to administer the same unto them after they shall themselves have taken the said Oath as aforesaid.