Public Accounts Act 1690

II. Officers of the Exchequer, Officers of the Ordnance, and of the Public Stores and Treasury, to observe Orders of Commissioners for taking the said Accounts.

And for the better enableing the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them to take the said Accounts Bee it further Enacted That the Auditor of the Receipt otherwise called the writer of the Tallys of Their Majesties Exchequer and the Clerke of the Pells there for the time being and all other the Officers Auditors Tellers Chamberlain and Ministers of the Exchequer and the Receipt thereof and the Secretary at Warr and Treasurer at Warr Mustermaster and Paymaster of Their Majestyes Land Forces in England and Ireland by what Name or Names they or any of them are called or distinguished And all Treasurers Receivers Paymasters Principall Officers and Commissioners of the Navy and Ordnance respectively And all Officers and Keepers of Their Majesties Stores and Yards and all and every other Person or Persons whatsoever Employed as Commissioner or Commissioners or otherwise in or about the Treasury or in the management ordering paying recieving or disposing of Their Majesties Treasure Revenues Provisions Victualls or Stores of Warr or any part of the same and all and every other Person and Persons whatsoever whome the said Commissioners or any Five of them shall thinke [X1 fitt] to Examine in order to the takeing of or inquireing into the Accounts aforesaid shall and are hereby Required to observe and execute such Orders and Directions as they or any Five or more of them shall by Writeing under their Hands Direct and Ordaine for and touching the takeing of the said Accounts and all things requisite for the Knowledge and Discovery thereof

Editorial Information

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