WHereas upon the former Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament , for taking the Accompts of the Kingdom , some doubt doth arise , whether there be sufficient power given the Committee named in that Ordinance , by the expresse words thereof , to determine any Accompts by them taken , and to receive and keep the Vouchers which concern the same Accompts ; And whereas the Subcommittees to be appointed by them by vertue of the said Ordinance , in any County , City , or place where they shall think meet , have the selfsame power given them within their severall limits as the said Committee hath , and are not appointed to receive any directions from , or to return any Accompts unto them , which will prove inconvenient , and hinder the orderly taking of the said Accompts by the said Committee .

Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament , That the said Committee or any five or more of them , shall have power and authority to determine the Accompts by them taken , to give discharges in writings under the hands of any five or more of them , and to receive and keep all Vouchers which concern the same ; And that all and every Subcommittees , appointed or to be appointed by vertue of the said Ordinance , shall pursue such directions as they shall from time to time receive from the said Committee of Accompts , for the better ordering and expediting of their Accompts , and likewise to return unto them all and singular Accompts which shall be taken by them before the same shall be finally determined . And because a true Accompt cannot be taken , of such Monies as are payed unto the Armies Officers , and Souldiers in the severall Garrisons , Cities and Counties of the Kingdom , except exact Musters be duly made and kept of the said Forces , and accompts taken of the Arms and Horse in the severall Counties aforesaid ; It is hereby further Ordained , That the severall Committees of Parliament , or such or so many of them as have power to execute the severall Ordinances in the said Counties , Cities and Garrisons , shall from time to time hereafter , every moneth at the least , or oftner if they shall see cause , take particular Musters , and keep true Muster Rolls of all the Officers and Souldiers by name now being , or hereafter to be raised within the said severall Counties , Cities and Garrisons where they are authorised as Committees of Parliament ; and that all Colonells , Captaines , and Officers within the said Armies , Counties , Cities , and Garrisons raised or to be raised , shall from time to time make good all Horses and Armes under their severall Commands , unto the said severall Committees of Parliament , in the said severall Counties , Cities , and Garrisons aforesaid , unlesse the same were lost in actuall service ; and the said severall Committees of Parliament shall returne the said Muster Rolls , or true notes of all the Musters aforesaid , and certifie all the defects therein , and of Armes and Horse aforesaid unto the Committee for the accompts of the Kingdom , or unto the several Sub-Committees of accompts in the severall Counties of the Kingdom , which the same Sub-Committees shall return up unto the said Committee of accompts in manner and form aforesaid , to the end that satisfaction may be made unto the Common-wealth for such losse of Horse and Armes out of the said Officers pay . And that all Fines to be imposed by vertue of the said Ordinance of Accompts , and all such summes of mony as the said Committee of Accompts , or any two of them shall certifie to be due , and owing by any Person or Persons upon their said accompts determined by them , shall be payed into the Chamber of London , and shall not be issued out but by Orders of both Houses ; which Orders shal be first entred with the said Committee of accompts before any money be payed upon the same , other then ●●re●●s of such monies as by particular Acts of Parliament , and Ordinances , are limited to particular Treasurers , nominated in the said Acts of Parliament , and Ordinances which shall be payed into the said Treasurers . And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid , that such summe and summes of money as the said Committee , or any five of them shall find necessary for the paying and satisfying of the Registers , Accomptants , Clerkes , Agents , and Ministers imployed by them or otherwise , for defraying any Charges for taking the said Accompts , shall be payed out of the Chamber of London aforesaid , whensoever the said Committee or any five of them shall require the same , for which they shall keep and give a true and perfect accompt under their Hands in writing , and that according to an Order of the thirteenth of March , two hundred pound shall be forthwith payed unto the said Committee for Accompts .