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england_n	act_n	ireland_n	parliament_n	8,990	5	7.4458	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74311	An act for the present examining and stating the accompts of the officers and soldiers now in the Parliaments service within this nation. Die Lunæ 28 Maii, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.; Laws, etc. 1649	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_33; ESTC R208607	5,535	12

AN ACT For the present examining and stating the ACCOMPTS OF THE Officers and Soldiers NOW In the Parliaments Service within this Nation Die Lunae 28 Maii 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliament ' London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon near the Inner-Temple May 31. 1649. AN ACT FOR The present Examining and Stating the Accompts of the Officers and Soldiers now in the Parliaments service within this NATION THe Commons of England assembled in Parliament taking into consideration the Arrears of pay to Officers and Soldiers now in their service in this Nation within the Establishment for England or Ireland due for their service in any Army or Garison or under any General or Commander in the service of the Parliament within this Nation other then in the late new Model under the now Lord Fairfax and being resolved to have their Accompts for such services forthwith examined and stated and Debenters with visible security given for such Arrears as well as for those under the said new Model which are already provided for and considering That the said Officers and Soldiers being many of them engaged for the service of Ireland and the rest attending daily service within this Nation cannot without prejudice to the publique leave their Charges or Colours to prosecute and perfect severally the stating of their accompts before the Committees or Commissioners authorized for stating the Accompts of the Soldiery and also considering the delay that would be to the dispatch thereof in any other way then as hereafter followeth Do therefore enact and ordain and be it Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by authority thereof That the Accompts of the said Officers and Soldiers for any such Arrears as aforesaid not stated and certified heretofore by Order or Direction of Parliament shall be forthwith taken examined stated and certified by the several persons and in the maner and form hereafter expressed that is to say For the Forces formed in Regiments the Field Officers of the respective Regiments or any one of them with the respective Captains or chief Officers present of their several Troops or Companies shall take examine and state the said Accompts and certifie the said Arrears of the inferior Officers and Soldiers of the several Troops or Companies under them respectively and for the Captains or present chief Officers of the several Troops and Companies and the Staff-Officers of such of the said Regiments as are designed and do engage to go for Ireland the respective Field-Officers or any two of them shall take examine and state their Accompts and certifie their said Arrears and the Colonels shall do the like for the Field-Officers under them of their respective Regiments And for such Officers and others of the Train of Artillery as go for Ireland the Lieutenant General and Comptroller of the Train shall examine and state their said accompts and certifie their said arrears and for such of the General Officers and Staff-Officers of the Army as go for Ireland the Lord General or such other persons as he shall appoint and intrust for that purpose shall examine and state their said accompts and the Lord General shall certifie their said arrears But for such of the said Forces as go not for Ireland the said accompts of all the Captains or present chief Officers of the several Troops and Companies and of the Field and Staff-officers of the several Regiments as also of the Train-Officers and the General Officers and Staff-officers of the Army and also the accompts of the Colonels of those Regiments that go for Ireland shall be taken examined and stated and Debenters shall be given them for their said arrears by the Committee for the Army or by such other persons as are or shall be by them or otherwise by authority of Parliament appointed thereunto And for the more certain and effectual performance of this work Be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That every person claiming any such arrears as aforesaid and desiring to have his accompts stated and certified for the same shall produce for every such arrear so claimed respectively a certificate under the Hand and Seal of his Captain or Lieutenant or some other Commission-Officer superior to himself or in case of Service in particular Counties then under the hands of two or more of that Committee under whom he pretends such arrear became due respectively expressing in what Troop or Company and of what Regiment or in what Garison or Counties and for what space of time and in what year or years of our Lord such his Service was and to the best of their knowledge what pay he received for the same or what remained due to him in arrear at his discharge and also shall make Oath that he hath not used nor is privy to any fraud deceit or indirect dealing in or for the framing or procuring of such certificate and that to the best of his knowledge such Certificate is true and just and that he hath not otherwise had his Accompts stated or any Debenter given before for the same Arrear so claimed other then what he shall then produce acknowledge and deliver in to the said Officers and he shall also upon the same Oath discover whether he or any other for him to his knowledge hath at any time received any moneys or any thing else since his discharge from that service toward satisfaction of the Arrears claimed thereupon and how much hath been so received and in the same Oath he shall also discover whether he hath at any time received any other money or goods for or under pretence of the publique service for which to his best knowledge or remembrance he ought to be and yet remaineth accomptable to the State and for such money or goods if he hath not already accompted he shall then discharge himself by a true accompt to the truth of which accompt he shall make oath in such form as hereafter followeth viz. I A. B. do swear That the Accompt by me given in at this time is true and just to the best of my knowledge and remembrance and that therein I have not wittingly concealed any money or goods which to my best remembrance I have received or taken for the use of the Parliament or Commonwealth for which I am justly accompatble to the State neither have I to my best remembrance wilfully imbezelled or to my private use or benefit converted any such money or goods received by me for the use of the publique and for which I stand accomptable as aforesaid other then such or to such value as I have charged my self with in my said Accompt So help me God And such certificates together with such oathes of the parties producing the same and claiming arrears thereupon as aforesaid shall be a