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A74495 An ordinance appointing a committee for the army, and treasurers at war. Saturday, January 28. 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. 1654 (1654) Thomason E1063_10; ESTC R209543 5,980 15

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AN ORDINANCE Appointing a COMMITTEE FOR THE ARMY AND Treasurers at War Saturday January 28. 1653. ORdered by His Highness the Lord Protector and His Council that this Ordinance and Orders be forthwith printed and published HENRY SCOBELL Clerk of the Council London Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1653. AN ORDINANCE Appointing a Committee for the ARMY AND Treasurers at War BE it Ordained and Declared by his Highnesse the Lord Protector with the Consent of his Council And it is hereby Ordained That for the more effectual putting in execution of an Act of Parlament Entituled An Act for an Assessment at the rate of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Moneth for six Moneths from the five and twentieth of December 1653. to the four and twentieth of June then next ensuing towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navy of this Commonwealth and published in print by Order of Parlament of the four and twentieth of November 1653 And for the Receiving Disposing and Issuing forth of the Moneys payable by vertue thereof and of all other Moneyes that by any Act Ordinance or Order of Parlament have been or are hereby or before the four and twentieth of June 1654. shall be appointed for or towards the maintenance of the Armies of this Common-wealth John Clerk Edward Clud Richard Lucy Edward Horseman James Philips Edward Gill John Hildesley Jervas Bennet Esqs Captain Adam Baines or any three or more of them be a Committee for the Army And that John Blackwell the younger and Richard Dean Esqs shall be and are hereby continued and authorized to be Treasurers at War for the said six moneths Assessment from the five and twentieth day of December 1653. untill the four and twentieth of June 1654. and for all other the summes of money for which they were appointed Treasurers at Warr by vertue of an Act Entituled An Act appointing a Committee for the Army and Treasurers at Warr published by Order of Parlament of the five and twentieth of July 1653. And the said Committee for the Army are hereby appointed and authorized to have the Care and mannaging of the whole business of bringing in the moneys appointed to be Assessed levyed collected and paid in all and every the Counties Cities and places in England and Wales towards the said six months Assesments of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a moneth and of all other moneys du and in arrear of any former Assessments And for that purpose and also for the issuing forth and disposing of the said six moneths Assessment and all other the said moneys in like manner as the Assessments and sums for the ordering and disposing whereof the persons named in the said last recited Act were appointed a Committee for the Army were to be issued forth and disposed that is to say For the issuing forth of forty thousand pounds by the moneth out of the said six moneths Assessment of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a moneth to the Treasurer of the Navy for the use of the Navy and for the issuing forth and disposing of all other monys to be by vertue hereof issued forth and disposed by them for the same uses and purposes for which the six moneths Assessments and other sums in the said last recited Act mentioned were appointed to be by them disposed or for such other uses as are hereafter mentioned The said Committee for the Army shall have are hereby authorized to use put in execution all and every the powers and Authorities in as full and ample manner to all intents purposes as the Comittee of the Army had or were mentioned to have by vertue of the said last recited Act for the mannagement of the Matters and affairs thereby committed unto them and to proceed therein according to the powers rules and limitations in the said Act expressed And the said Committee for the Army shall be and are hereby further impowred and authorized to have and put in execution the several Powers and Authorities which were by two several Orders of Parlament of the fourteenth of April 1652. expressed to be given to the then Committee for the Army for the disposal of the Arrears of all Assessments in the said Orders mentioned And shall be and are hereby impowred to confirm or a ter any Order or Warrant which being made by the then Committee for the Army relating to the said Orders of Parlament or either of them have not or shall not before the passing of this Ordinance be fulfilled observed and fully executed And also the said Committee for the Army shall and are hereby impowred and authorized to proceed in the satisfying the remainder of the Arrears due for service in Scotland before the twentieth of October 1651. and in defaulking such sums of money as upon examination shall appear to have been paid to any person for himself or others in lieu of those Arrears more than ought to have been paid according to the directions of an Order of Parlament of the eighth of August 1653. made in that behalf And the said Committee for the Army shall likewise have all and every the powers and Authorities which the Committee for the Army had or were mentioned to have by the Act herein last before recited And all and every the Commissioners for Assessments Receivers Collectors Sub-Collectors and other persons concerned or that shall be concerned in the assessing levying collecting and payment of any part of the Assessments or other sums before mentioned or in the taking or making of rates or surveys for the Assessments shall be and are hereby required to observe such Orders and Directions as shall be made and given forth in those behalfs by the said Committee for the Army And be it Ordained and it is hereby Ordained That the Warrants and Orders of the said Committee for the Army to all or any the purposes aforesaid be by the said Treasurers at War and by Sir John Wollaston Knight and the rest of the former Treasurers at War and all others concerned therein observed and obeyed accordingly And the warrant or warrants of the said Committee for the Army shall be to all and every the Treasurers at War aforesaid a sufficient discharge And the said Committee for the Army shall be and are hereby authorized and required to exercise and put in execution all and every the powers and authorities given to the Committee for the Army by an Act of Parlament published in print by Order of Parlament of the nineteenth of October 1653. touching the stating and determining the Accompts of all Officers and Souldiers c. Provided that the said Committee for the Army do not state or make any Certificate for any sum claimed to be in Arrear and due before the fifteenth of January 1647. And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid that the said Treasurers at War hereby continued shall have the same powers and Authorities to all intents