AN ORDINANCE For bringing the Public Revenues OF THIS COMMONWEALTH INTO ONE TREASURY.  
Wednesday June 21. 1654.  
ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, That this Ordinance 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, 1654.   

 seal of the commonwealth of England AN ORDINANCE For bringing the Public Revenues Of this Commonwealth into one TREASURY.  
WHereas upon Consideration had, It is found necessary, That the Moneys and other payments arising by the Public Revenues of this Commonwealth, or which shall be raised for the uses thereof, should be paid into one Treasury, to the end the same may from time to time the more readily be employed and disposed as the occasions of the Commonwealth shall require.  
That the Charges arising by the multiplicity of Treasuries or Receipts may be reduced, and the persons who shall be employed in receiving the same, be brought to a due Account. And whereas also the Receipt of the Public Exchequer at Westminster is judged most fit, and convenient for that purpose,  
Be it Ordained by his Highness the Lord Protector, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Council, That from and after the four and twentyeth day of June, One thousand six hundred fifty and four, The said Receipt shall be, and shall be called, The Receipt of the Exchequer of his Highness the Lord Protector, and shall be kept and executed in the usual and accustomed Places, Method, Manner, and Way of Receipt of Exchequer, as formerly. And that all and every Sum and Sums of Money, and other Payments, which upon and after the said four and twentyeth day of June, One thousand six hundred fifty and four, shall be received, or taken, or shall become due or payable to, or for the use of his Highness the Lord Protector, and the Commonwealth, by any Commissioner, Treasurer, Receiver, Collector, Sheriff, Bailiff, Steward, Escheator, or other Officer, Minister, or Person, Bodies Politic, or Corporate whatsoever, for any Fee-farm Rents, Quitrents, Dry-rents, Out-rents, Annual Tenths, either of the Laity or Clergy, or for first Fruits of the Clergy, or for or out of the Rents, Issues or Profits of any the Honours, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Royalties, Franchises, or other Revenues, Certain or Casual, Tithes Appropriate, Impropriations, or Rectories Impropriate, with their appurtenances, late of or belonging to the late King, Queen, and Prince, Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Arch-Deacons and Deacons, in right of their Offices, as also of Delinquents and Recusants, or any of them, or for or in respect of any Debts due to the late King, Queen or Prince, Or to the late Keepers of the Liberty of England by authority of Parliament, or forfeited by any the said Delinquents or Recusants to the Commonwealth, or for or in respect of any Composition, Contract, or Sale, of or for any the premises, or any part or parcel of them, or for or in respect of Customs and Subsidies upon Merchandizes, New Impost and Excise, Sale, or other Disposition of Prize Goods, or for or in respect of any Confiscation, Seizure, Forfeiture, Fine, or other Penalty or Contempt, or upon, or by any judgement, Decree, Order or Award of any Court, Commissioners or Committee thereunto Authorized; And all and every Sum and Sums of Money, and other Payments whatsoever, which upon the said four and twentyeth day of June shall be due, or from thenceforth shall arise, accrue, or grow due or payable to his Highness and the Commonwealth, by, or from any Person or Persons whatsoever, Bodies Politic, or Corporate, by all or any the Ways or Means aforesaid, or by any other Ways or Means than are before specified, shall be paid into the said Receipt of the Exchequer, by all and every the Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, who shall receive, or be liable to pay the same, any Law, Statute, Ordinance or Order of Parliament, or any other Matter or Thing whatsoever to the Contrary hereof, in any wise notwithstanding. For the payment of which Moneys, and every of them, Tallies levied and allowed according to the usual and accustomed Course of the Exchequer, with the Alteration of the words upon the Tally from Latin to English, shall be to every Person and Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, so paying, and their Successors, Heirs, Execucutors, Administrators, and Assigns, respectively, sufficient Acquittance and Discharge.  
And be it further Ordained and Declared by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said four & twentyeth day of June, the said Receipt of the Exchequer of His Highness the Lord Protector, shall be governed and ordered; And the Moneys therein from time to time being and remaining, and to be there paid as aforesaid, shall be received and kept, and charged and accounted for, and also issued and paid out (by Warrant, as is herein, and hereby declared) according to the ancient method, usage and practice of the Receipt of the Exchequer, by such Person and Persons, Officer and Officers only, and no other, than such as His Highness the Lord Protector shall from time to time, by Letters Patents under the Great Seal, constitute and appoint. And that every Person and Persons, Officer and Officers to be hereafter in that behalf so constituted and appointed, as aforesaid, shall and may from time to time have, use, exercise, and enjoy, all and every the like lawful Powers, Privileges, Preeminences and Authorities, in relation to his and their several Offices and Places, and the execution thereof, as any other Person or Persons, Officer or Officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster, in the administration or execution of their or any of their Offices or Places at any time heretofore lawfully have, or of right might have, had, used, or enjoyed. And shall have and receive for and in respect of his and their execution of, and attendance in and upon his and their said Offices and Places respectively, such moderate Fees, Wages, Rewards and Allowances only, as His Highness the Lord Protector, with the advice and consent of His Council, by the said Letters Patents, shall think fit to limit and appoint.  
And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or Persons, Officer or Officers so authorized as aforesaid, shall at any time directly or indirectly, upon any pretence whatsoever, by colour of such his or their Office or Employment, take or receive any other or greater fee or fees, sum or sums of Money, or other Gift, Reward, or Gratuity whatsoever, That then all and every such Person and Persons, Officer and Officers shall, upon proof or confession thereof before His Highness' Council forfeit and lose his and their Place and Places, Office and Offices; and the Letters Patents in that behalf shall from thenceforth become void. And all and every Person and Persons, Officer and Officers so offending, shall also forfeit and pay triple the value of such Fee or Fees, Sum or Sums of Money, Gift, Reward, or Gratuity, unto such Person and Persons, as shall sue for the same, by Bill, Plaint, or Information in any Court of Record.  
And be it further Ordained, That all and every the Sum and Sums of Money, which from and after the said four and twentyeth day of June shall be brought and paid into the said Receipt, shall be from time to time thence issued and paid by Warrant and Authority under the Great Seal, or under the Privy Seal, and not otherwise.  
But as to the issuing of the Money mentioned in the nine and twentieth Article of the Government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the Dominions thereto belonging, The same shall not be granted but by Consent of Parliament, or of the Lord Protector and major part of the Council, in the Intervals of Parliaments.  
Provided, That this Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any the Revenues of Ireland, or moneys raised there for the public use, until His Highness the Lord Protector, or His Council, shall give Order therein.  
Provided also, That this Ordinance, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to any the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Revenues or possessions of, or belonging to His Highness the Lord Protector, or His Successors Lords Protectors, in any other Capacity than as Lord Protector only.   

Wednesday June 21. 1654.  
ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector and His Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published,  
Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council.