Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667

VI. Allowance to the Commissioners for Diet, and for Payment of House Rent, Clerks, &c.

Such Monies to be accounted for without Fee; Questions respecting Act may be determined by Five Commissioners.

And be it further enacted That the Lord High Treasurer of England or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being are hereby authorized and required to issue and cause to be paid One thousand pounds by the yeare for the Diet of the Commissioners and alsoe such su[m]me or su[m]ms of money not exceeding two thousand pounds by the yeare to such person or persons as the said Commissioners or any five or more of them by Writing under theire Hands shall desire or direct out of any part of his Majesties Treasure or Revenue to be imployed in or for the payment of Houserent Clerks, Messengers and other Officers and in defraying all other necessary charges, in and about the execution of the powers of this Act and in such manner and in such proportions as shall bee appointed by any five or more of the said Commissioners by Writing under theire Hands in that behalfe the same to bee accounted for by the person or persons to whom the said [X1 money] shall be soe issued or paid according to the course of his Majesties Exchequer without any Fee or other Charge to bee taken or demanded for the issuing or payment of the same money or the passing of such Accompt other then such su[m]m as the said Commissioners shall appoint And if any Question or Suit in Law shall arise touching any of the powers or matters contained in this Act or the execution thereof the same shall be heard and determined by the said Commissioners or any five or more of them and not by any other course of Judicature whatsoever out of Parliament

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