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Public Accounts Act 1690
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III.Commissioners to meet in the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster;
and to send out their Precepts, &c.; and to administer an Oath; Officers to execute such Precepts.; Commissioners to employ Clerks, Messengers, and to give them Oath to execute their Duty.; Such Clerks, &c. to take nothing but their Salary.
And for the better Executing of this present Act the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them are hereby Authorized to Meete and Sitt from time to time in the Roomes called the Inner Court of Wards at Westminster or in any other Place where they shall thinke fitt with or without Adjournment and to send their Precept or Precepts for any other Person or Persons whatsoever and such Books Papers Writeings or Records as they shall judge necessary for their Information in all things relateing to the said Accounts and Matters aforesaid and to administer an Oath for the better discovery of the Truth of the Inquiries by them to be made to any Person or Persons therein concerned And all Bayliffes Constables Sheriffes and other Their Majestyes Officers are hereby Required to obey and execute such Orders and Precepts as shall be sent to them or any of them by the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them touching the said Accounts and Premisses And the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them are hereby authorized to appoint and employ such Clerks Messengers and Officers as they shall thinke meet and to give to every of the said Clerks and Officers an Oath for his true and faithfull demeanour in all things relateing to the Trust and performance thereof in him reposed by the said Com[m]issioners or any Five or more of them and in all other things touching the Premisses Which Clerks and Officers are hereby required faithfully to execute and performe the said Trust in them reposed severally and respectively without takeing any thing for such their Service other then such Salary or Reward as the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall thinke fitt to Direct and Appoint in that behalfe
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