An Act to transmit into the Chancery and Exchequer certain Orders and Instructions of Parliament, concerning Tonnage and Poundage of Goods and Merchandizes, with the Book of Rates of the same.  
BE it enacted by this present Parliament, and by the Authority thereof, That one Ordinance made the sixteenth day of December, 1647, entitled, An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for the establishing of the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, together with the book of Rates from the twenty sixth of March 1648, until the twenty sixth of March, 1651, the book of Rates in the same Ordinance mentioned and the Orders and Instructions in the same specified remaining in the custody of Henry Scobell Esquire Clerk of the Parliament, together with this present act, shall forthwith be transmitted into the Chancery, and from thence by Mittimus under the Great Seal of England, to be sent into the Exchequer, for proceeding thereupon to be according to the contents and tenor and true intent and meaning of the same, and that the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal shall aswell award under the same Seal a Writ of Certiorari directed to the said Clerk of the Parliament for the certifying of the same into the Chancery, as also thereupon a Writ of Mittimus under the same Seal, with the tenors of the same Orders, book of Rates and Instructions, and this present Act into the Exchequer as aforesaid and the Certificate and Return of the said Henry Scobell so to be made as aforesaid by virtue of the said Writ of Certiorari, or by any other Writ or Writs to be to him out of the Chancery directed, shall be as valid and sufficient in the Law as if the same had been by John Brown Esquire or by any other Clerk of the House of Peers. And it is likewise further enacted, That the clause in the Ordinance of the twenty sixth of December aforesaid, whereby the power of Compositions for forfeited Goods and Merchandise is restrained to the King's Attorney or Solicitor General, as of the Quorum shall be enlarged and given to the Barons of the Exchequer, the Attorney General, and Solicitor General for the time being or to any two of them, the same former Ordinance notwithstanding.  
per Henry Scobell, Cleric. Parliament.  
FINIS.