Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696

II. No Teller to charge himself with Receipt of Monies, but when Officers of the Tally Court are present, nor throw down a Bill for a Tally to be struck until the Money he actually received and had in the Office, Exception.

Teller offending; (Exception); Loss of Office, Incapacity, and Penalty; Clerk, &c. offending, Penalty and Removal.

And be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twentieth Day of Aprill One thousand six hundred ninety seven no Teller in the said Receipt of Exchequer shall charge himselfe by his Bill with the Receipt of any Moneys in the Exchequer but att such times as the Officers of the Talley Court their Deputies or Substitutes shall be there present to levy a Talley or Talleys for the same nor shall any Teller or other Person imployed by him throw downe or cause to be throwne downe into the said Court any Bill or Bills owning or purporting the receiving of any Su[m]m or Su[m]ms of Money from any Lender of Money Receiver or any other Person or Persons whatsoever upon which Bill or Bills a Talley or Talleys are to be levied according to the Course of the said Receipt unlesse such Teller respectively or his Clerks or Persons imployed by him shall have actually received and have then in his Office the very Money which shall be specified in such Bill or Bills respectively except in such Cases where Talleys are or shall be levied by the special Warrants or Directions of the Co[m]missioners of the Treasury or so many of them as shall be appointed to be a Quorum for the time being or of the Treasurer of the Exchequer for the time being or where the Person for whom any Talley or Talleys shall be levied or to whom such Money shall be directed to be issued shall att the same time or on the same Day of throwing downe the Bill or Bills give a Discharge according to the Course of [X1 the] Excheq[uer] upon some Order or Debenture for the Money for which such Bill shall be so thrown downe pursuant to the like Warrant or Directions to be had and received for that purpose upon paine that any Teller who shall offend against this Act by charging himselfe by his Bill att such times as the Officers of the Talley Court their Deputies or Substitutes shall not be there present as aforesaid or by throwing downe his Bill or Bills without first receiving and having the Money therein specified in his Office as aforesaid (except in such Cases as are before excepted) shall for such Offence incurr the like Forfeiture of Office and Disability as are before mentioned and for every such Offence shall forfeit and lose double the Su[m]m so unduely charged by him (to witt) one Moiety thereof to the King and the other Moiety to such-Person or Persons as will informe and sue for the same and if such Offence shall be co[m]mitted by any Clerk or Substitute of such Teller then such Clerk or Substitute for every such Offence shall forfeit double the Su[m]m so unduely charged in like manner and shall be removed and expelled from the said Receipt.

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