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 dugard 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 Highness 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 Parliament, Entitled, An Act for an Assessment at the rate of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the Month for six Months, from the five and twentieth of December 1653. to the four and twentieth of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navy of this Commonwealth, and published in print by Order of Parliament of the four and twentieth of November 1653 And for the Receiving, Disposing and Issuing forth of the Moneys payable by virtue thereof, and of all other Monies that by any Act, Ordinance, or Order of Parliament 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 Commonwealth, 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 month's Assessment, from the five and twentieth day of December 1653. until the four and twentieth of June 1654. and for all other the sums of money for which they were appointed Treasurers at War by virtue of an Act, Entitled, An Act appointing a Committee for the Army, and Treasurers at War, published by Order of Parliament 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 managing of the whole business of bringing in the moneys appointed to be Assessed, levied, collected, and paid, in all and every the Counties, Cities and places in England, and Wales, towards the said six months' Assessments of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a month, 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 month's 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 month out of the said six month's Assessment of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a month to the Treasurer of the Navy for the use of the Navy; and for the issuing forth and disposing of all other moneys to be by virtue hereof issued forth, and disposed by them for the same uses and purposes for which the six month's 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 Committee of the Army had or were mentioned to have by virtue 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 empowered, and authorized to have and put in execution the several Powers and Authorities which were by two several Orders of Parliament 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 empowered to confirm, or after any Order, or Warrant, which (being made by the then Committee for the Army, relating to the said Orders of Parliament, 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 empowered 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 aught to have been paid according to the directions of an Order of Parliament 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, Subcollectors, 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 behalves 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 Parliament published in print by Order of Parliament of the nineteenth of October 1653. touching the stating and determining the Accounts of all Officers and Soldiers, etc. 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 and purposes, and shall have and take the like Salary and allowances for six months, from the five and twentieth day of December 1653. or proportionably for so long time as they shall continue to be Treasurers at War, as they had, and as were appointed to be made unto them by the Act herein before recited, published in print the five and twentieth day of July 1653. And the respective Receivers General, that are or shall be appointed to receive any part of the said six months' Assessments of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds a month, commencing the five and twentieth of December 1653. shall forthwith after the receipt thereof transmit and pay, or cause to be paid, the moneys by them so received, to the said Treasurers at War, or where, or to whom they shall appoint to receive the same. And the receipt of the said Treasurers at War, shall be to the respective Receivers General, and to all other persons, who shall by virtue of this Ordinance pay any moneys unto them, for the purposes aforesaid, a sufficient discharge. And the said Committee for the Army shall be, and are hereby authorized and required by their warrant to Order and dispose the monthly Assessment laid upon Scotland (by resolve of Parliament, dated the twelfth day of November 1653.) for and towards the payment of the Forces, and other necessary contingencies of the Military service there; And the Treasurer, or Receiver General of the said Assessment is hereby ordered and required to observe such warrant as shall be directed unto him by the said Committee for the Army for the purposes aforesaid. And the said Committee for the Army shall be and are hereby empowered to give warrant for the satisfying, and allowing of all such Sums of money as were disbursed by any Receivers General of the Assessments for the Army appointed before the five and twentieth of December 1651. or by any former Treasurers at War, by any Order of Parliament, or by any order or direction of any former Committee for the Army. Provided that such disbursements were ordered and made for such purposes and uses, for which the then Committee for the Army ought to have given their warrant, and did not give the same. And forasmuch as the Forces in England, Ireland, and Scotland do necessarily require, and call for the moneys appointed for their use out of the one hundred thousand pounds charged for the use of the Army, by Order of Parliament of the first of Januarie 1652, and arising by the sale of and Composition for Delinquents Estates; and also for some further supply to be made for them; Be it therefore Ordained, that all and every such sum and sums of money as shall, on and after the thirtieth day of Januarie 1653, be paid unto and received by the Treasurers at Goldsmith's-Hall for Sequestrations or Compositions (except for pensions and payments for the use of maimed Soldiers already appointed out of their receipts) shall be paid by the said Treasurers unto the Treasurers at War hereby appointed, until the remainder of the said one hundred thousands pounds, or so much thereof as shall not be satisfied by the moiety of the moneys arising by sale of Delinquents Estates upon the Act of Parliament for sale of and Composition for those Estates, shall be fully satisfied. And also until the sum of one hundred thousand pounds more be fully satisfied and paid out of the said receipt for the further supply of the Armies. And the Treasurers for Sequestrations and Compositions are hereby required to make payment of the remainder of the said first one hundred thousand pounds. And also of the other one hundred thousand pounds to the said Treasurers at War accordingly, whose receipt shall be to the Treasurers for Sequestrations and Compositions a sufficient Discharge.  
And be it further Ordained that the said Committee for the Army shall be, and hereby are empowered (by themselves, or such others as they shall appoint) to call to Account any Receivers, Collectors, subcollectors, or other persons who have received any sum or sums of money, paiable, or received by virtue of any Act, Ordinance or Order of Parliament for the British forces in Ireland, or for the relief or use of any the distressed British Inhabitants of Ireland, or for other service or relief of Ireland; and all persons concerned in such Account, are required to observe the orders and directions of the said Committee for the purpose aforesaid. And the said Committee are hereby empowered to issue forth their Orders or Warrants to any person or persons who have any of the said moneys in their hands, requiring them forthwith to pay in the same unto John Black well the younger, and Richard Deane Esquires, Treasurers at War, whose receipt shall be a discharge for the moneys which shall be so paid unto them; and if it shall appear unto the said Committee, that any person or persons have wilfully detained in their hands any sum or sums of money as aforesaid, and not performed their duty and trust in the due disposal thereof, the said Committee for the Army (if they shall see cause) are hereby Authorized to award and order such person or persons to pay Interest for the same, after the rate of six pounds per Cent. for so long time as they have detained the money in their hands. And be it further Ordained, that John Black-well the younger, and Richard Deane Esquires, Treasurers at War, are hereby appointed and Authorized to receiv all such sums of money (appointed for the British forces, or distressed Inhabitants of Ireland) as shall be, by the said Committee, by virtue hereof, ordered to be paid unto them, and to issue forth the same for the uses for which the said moneys were raised and received. And have been by any Act, Ordinance or Order of Parliament disposed and appointed, according to such order as shall be by the said Committee for the Army given therein; And the said Committee for the Army shall give their warrant for the disposal thereof for the uses aforesaid, according to such direction as they shall in that behalf receiv from the Lord PROTECTOR and his Council. And be it further ordained, that if any Receiver-General, Collector, Sub-collector, or other person or persons shall neglect or refuse to observe the Order, or Warrant of the said Committee for the Army, and not pay in the money of them required, that then upon Certificate thereof from the said Committee for the Army unto the Commissioners for Sequestrations, the said Commissioners are hereby required to sequester the Estate of such person or persons real and personal, until such time as the Warrant or Orders of the said Committee shall be wholly observed and fulfilled.   

saturday 28 Januarie, 1653.  
ORdered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, That Thomas Rand, William Palmer, Robert Yarborow, Nehemiah Rawson, William Harvey, William Welby, Esquires, and the Mayor of Lincoln for the time being, be, and are hereby added to the Commissioners for the Monthly Assessment within the County of Lincoln, and are hereby empowered and authorized to act and put in execution all and every the powers given to the Commissioners in the Act entitled, an Act for an Assessment at the rate of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds by the mouth for six months, from the 25 day of December 1653, till the 24 of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth, published in Print by order of the 24 of November 1653, in such sort, to all intents and purposes as the said Commissioners therein named are thereby empowered to do, as if the persons aforesaid had been named in the said Act.  
Ordered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR, and the Council, that Edward Hooper Esquire, and Philip Stansby, be, and are hereby added to the Commissioners for the Monthly Assessment, within the County of Dorset, and are hereby required and authorized to act and put in execution all and every the powers given to the Commissioners in the Act, entitled, an Act for an Assessment, at the rate of 120000 l. by the month, for six months, from the 25 of December 1653, to the 24 of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth, published in Print by Order of the 24 of November last, in such sort to all intents and purposes as the said Commissioners therein named are thereby empowered to do, and as if they had been named in the said Act.  
Ordered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, that the Mayor of Banburie for the time being be, and is hereby added to the Commissioners for the Monthly Assessment within the County of Oxon; and is hereby required and authorized to act and put in execution all and every the powers given to the Commissioners in the Act, entitled, an Act for an Assessment, at the rate of 120000 l. by the month, for six months, from the 25 day of December 1653, to the 24 of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth, published in print by order of the 24 of November last, in such sort to all intents and purposes as the said Commissioners therein named are thereby empowered to do, and as if they had been named in the said Act.  
Ordered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR, and the Council, That Christopher Peircehay Esquire, and Sir Robert Barwick Knight, be, and are hereby added to the Commissioners for the Monthly Assessment within the County of York; and are hereby required and authorized to act and put in execution all and every the powers given to the commissioners in the Act, entitled, an Act for an Assessment, at the rate of 120000 l. by the month, for six months, from the 25 day of December 1653, to the 24 of June than next ensuing, towards the maintenance of the Armies and Navies of this Commonwealth; published in print by order of the 24 of November last, in such sort to all intents and purposes as the said commissioners therein named are thereby empowered to do, and as if they had been named in the said Act.   

Saturday, the 28th of Januarie, 1653.  
ORdered by His Highness, the Lord PROTECTOR, and His Council, that the Ordinance and Orders aforesaid be forthwith printed and published.  
Hen. Scobell Clerk of the Council.   

Printed by William Dugard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR. MDCLIII.