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A37548
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An act for constituting a committee for the army and treasurers at war
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England and Wales.
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1659
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Wing E1007A; ESTC R32784
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Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That James Nelthorpe Esq and John Lawson Esq shall be and are hereby appointed to be Receivers-General and Treasurers at War for the Receiving Paying and Issuing forth of all Moneys that heretofore have beén or before the tenth Day of October 1660. shall be appointed for the use and payment of the Forces aforesaid and Charges incident thereunto And the respective Receivers in the several Counties that now are heretofore have been or hereafter shall be appointed to receive any part of the Moneys herein before mentioned shall forthwith after the Receipt thereof transmit and pay or cause to be paid the Moneys by them so received unto the said Treasurers at War and Receivers-General herein before named or where or to whom they shall appoint to Receive the same and the Receipt of the said Receivers-General and Treasurers at War shall be to the said respective Receivers and to all other Persons who shall by Vertue of this Act pay any Money unto them for the purposes aforesaid a sufficient Discharge And the said Receivers-General and Treasurers at War herein named for their pains in Receiving Paying and Issuing forth of all such Moneys as shall be by Vertue of this Act Received by them and Defraying the necessary Charges and Expences they shall be put unto in the doing thereof And in consideration that they shall execute the Imployment of Treasurers at War until the Tenth Day of October One Thousand six hundred sixty shall have and receive after the rate of four and twenty hundred pounds by the Year together with such extraordinary Charges as shall be occasioned by the Portage or transporting of Monyes by Land or Sea which the said Committee for the Army or any three of them are hereby authorized and appointed by their order to allow unto them from time to time as they shall think fit And Be it further Enacted and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the Committee or Commissioners for the Army for the time being or any three or more of them do at or befory the end of one whole year now next ensuing and from thenceforth yearly once every year call to accompt the said Treasurers at Warr or the Heires Executors or Administrators of them or such of them as shall be deceased if any shall happen so to be for all the Monyes which shall be by them received either as Receivors-Generall of the Assessmeâts or Treasurers at Warr out of the Assessments or by any other wayes or meanes saving and excepting such Monyes as shal be by them received at the Receipt of the publick Exchequer and to give unto them ingrossed in Parchment under their hands a Discharge for so much of the said Monyes as shall be by them duely and justly accompted for And it is likewise Enacted and Declared That the first and second Remembrancers of the publick Exchequer upon tender unto them of such Discharge as aforesaid shall record and inroll the same in the respective Offices which being so Recorded and Inrolled or the Inrolment or Exemplification thereof shall be unto the said Treasurers at War their heirs Executors and Administrators and their and every of their Estates reall and personall a good valid and sufficient Discharge to all intents and purposes whatsoever without any other or further Accompt to be rendred or made for the said Monyes so accompted for as aforesaid or any part thereof And it is further Enacted and Declared by the Aâthority aforesaid That the said Treasurers at âarr their Heirs Executors and Administrators do and shall when they shall be thereunto required by the said Committee or Commissioners for the Army or any three or more of them within such time and according to such Rules as shall be appointed directe or given in that behalf by the said CoÌmittee or Commissioners or any three or more of them pass perfect their Accompts for the Monyes so to be accompted for as aforesaid and every part and parcell thereof And Be it Enacted and it is hereby further Enaeted That John Blackwel and Richard Dean Esquires late Treasurers at War shall forthwith pay unto the present Treasurers at Warr by this Act constituted all and every sum and sums of Mony remaining in their hands as Treasurers at Warr and do henceforth forbear and are hereby discharged to receive or dispose of any Monyes any way assigned for the Armies and Forces of this Common-wealth Thursday February 2. 1659. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith Printed and Published THOMAS St. NICHOLAS Clerk of the Parliament