[seal of the Commonwealth]

AN ACT For the Continuance of the Committee for the Army AND Treasures at VVARS.

BE it Enacted by this present Parliament, & it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That for the more orderly receiving and issuing forth of the Moneys payable upon the Six Moneths As­sessments appointed by Act of Parliament, (Entituled, An Act for an Assessment for six Moneths, from the Four and twentieth of June, One thousand six hundred and fifty, for the Maintenance of the Forces Raised by Authority of Parliament for the Service of [Page 910] England and Ireland, at the Rate of Ninety thousand pounds per Mensem for the first Three Moneths, and at the Rate of Sixty thousand pounds per Mensem for the last Three Moneths) and of all other Moneys either by ver­tue of that Act, or any other Act or Order ap­pointed for the maintenance of the Forces in England and Ireland, The several persons nomi­nated by an Act (Entituled, An Act appointing Treasurers at Wars for receiving and issuing forth of the Moneys to be Assessed, Levied and Paid by vertue of an Act of the Seventh of April instant, for Ninety thousand pounds per Mensem) to be of the Committee for the Army, and other the persons nominated by the last recited Act, to be Treasurers at Wars; and all others Who since by any Act or Order of Par­liament have been added to the said Committee, shall be, and are hereby continued and authorized to be a Committee for the Army and Treasurers at War respectively, in their several capacities, for the receiving, issuing forth and paying out all the Moneys appointed or to be appointed by ver­tue of the first recited Act, or of any other Act or Order of Parliament, for the use and payment of the Forces (and charges incident thereunto) by Authority of Parliament, or Order from the Councel of State, from time to time Established or appointed for the Service of England and Ire­land: And the said Committee or any five of them, are hereby appointed and authorized to have the care of managing the whole business of bringing in the Moneys assessed, or to be assessed by vertue of the first recited Act, or of any other Money for the use or payment of the said Forces; and shall have, and are hereby authorized to use, exercise and put in execution, all and every of the Powers and Authorities, in as full and ample maner, to all intents and purposes, as the Com­mittee [Page 911] for the Army had, or were mentioned to have by vertue of an Act (Entituled, An Act for the Continuance of the Committee of the Army and Treasurers at Wars) or of any other Act, Order or Ordinance mentioned, included or recited in that Act. And it is further Enacted, That the said Treasurers at Wars for the receiving, paying and issuing forth of the said six Moneths Assess­ments, or any other Moneys appointed or to be appointed for the use of the Forces aforesaid; and in consideration that they shall execute the Imployment of Treasurers at Wars, shall have the same Salary and Allowances (for all the Money they shall so receive and pay by vertue of the Act herein first recited, and this present Act, for the uses aforesaid) as was mentioned to be allowed them by the last recited Act, or any Act therein mentioned; together with the Allowance of Pay for two Waggons more, according to the first Establishment of this Army (besides the Waggon allowed them in the last recited Act) for the extraordinary Portage of Money, for so long time as the Army shall be marching, or con­tinue their Quarters in the Field.

Die Martis, 25 Iunii, 1650.

ORdered by the Parliament, That this Act be forth­with Printed and Published.

Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.

London, Printed by Edward Husband and Iohn Field, Printers to the Parliament of England, 1650.

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