Public Accounts Act 1690

V. Treasury to issue £2,000 for Payment of Clerks, Messengers, &c. and for defraying other necessary Charges.

The same to be accounted for.; What Fee, &c. for issuing such Money may be taken.; Commissioners to give Account in Writing under Hand and Seal to Their Majesties and Parliament.

And bee it further Enacted That the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury or Lord High Treasurer of England for the time being are hereby Authorized and required to issue [X1 or] cause to be Paid all such Summe or Sum[m]s of Money not exceeding Two thousand pounds to such Person or Persons as the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall by Writeing under their Hands desire or direct out of any part of Their Majestyes Treasure or Revenue to be employed in or for the Payment of Clerks Messengers and other Officers and in defraying all other necessary Charges in or about the Execution of the Powers of this Act and in such manner and in such proportions as shall be appointed by the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them by Writeing under their Hands in that behalfe the same to be accompted for by the Person or Persons to whome the said Money shall be issued or paid according to the course of Their Majestyes Exchequer without any Fees or other Charge to be taken or demanded for the Issueing or Payment of the same Money on the passing of such Accompt other then such Summe as the said Commissioners or any Five or more of them shall appoint And the said Commissioners shall from time to time being thereunto required and at the determination of their Examinations and Proceedings by vertue of this Act give an Account thereof in writeing under any Five or more of their Hands and Seals to the King and Queens Majesties and to both Houses of Parliament if then Sitting or at their next Meeting that Their Majesties and both Houses of Parliament may thereby receive a full and true accompt how the Publicke Treasure Revenues and other things have beene disposed of.

Editorial Information

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