Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696

IV. Officers of the Tally Court to attend daily, Sundays and Holidays excepted, and in case of Sickness, their Place to be supplied.

Officer absenting without Leave,; Penalty; Officers of Exchequer not giving due Attendance,; Penalty.

And that the Kings Service or the Businesse of particular Persons to be transacted att the said Receipt from time to time may not be delayed or prejudiced be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven the Chamberlains or Deputy Chamberlains and such other Officers Ministers Clerks & Deputies as do belong to the Talley Court and are necessary for the levying of Talleys shall daily except upon Sundays and such other Holidays as have been co[m]monly observed att the X1 Receipt of Exchequer constantly attend there in their several Places att least from Eight of the Clock in the Forenoon till One of the Clock in the Afternoon in every Yeare from Lady day to Michaelmas and from Nine of the Clock in the Forenoon till One of the Clock in the Afternoon in every Yeare from Michaelmas to. Lady day without absenting themselves from the same unlesse they respectively be sick or have leave of absence to be obtained from the Co[m]missioners of the Treasury or the Treasurer or Under-Treasurer of the Exchequer for the time being in which Cases of Sicknesse or leave of Absence the Room or Place of such Person sick or having leave to be absent shall be sufficiently supplied in the meane time as hath been accustomed upon paine that any such Officer Minister Clerk or Deputy absenting himselfe contrary to this Act whereby the Businesse of the King or of any others in the said Receipt shall be delayed or obstructed shall be liable to answer and make good as well to the King as to the Party that shall suffer any Losse or Damage by such delay or obstruction double Damages besides full Costs of Suit and that the Auditor of the said Receipt and Writer of the Talleys and Counter Talleys the Clerk of the Pells the Foure Tellers and other the Officers and Ministers of the said Receipt for the time being shall severally by themselves att all times when their owne personal Attendance is necessary and required by the ancient Practice & Usage there and by themselves or their respective Deputies Clerks or Substitutes att such times and for such matters wherein they or any of them may act by a Deputy Clerk or Substitute give such due & constant Attendance in their respective Places as that his Majesty his Heires or Successors or any other Person or Persons who are to receive Money or have other lawfull Occasions there may not be delayed or prejudiced for want of the due Attendance of such Officers Ministers Deputies Clerks or Substitutes respectively under the like Penalty of answering double Damages besides full Costs of Suit as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

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