AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT: FOR Bringing in of the Arrears for the Garrisons of the Eastern Association.  

Die Jovis 10 Decemb. 1646.  
ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed and published.  
Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum.   
London printed for John Wright at the King's Head in the old Bayley. 1646.   

Die Jovis 10 Decemb. 1646.  
AN ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, For bringing in the Arrears of the Garrisons of the Eastern Association.  
Whereas by two several Ordinances of the third of September, 1645. and the sixth of August, 1646. sixteen months and seven days' Tax was Ordained to be Assessed, Collected, and paid for maintenance of the Garrisons of the Eastern Association; And whereas a great part of the Moneys payable by virtue of the said Ordinances, is still in arrear, and uncollected, and by means thereof the sums of Money still due to the said Garrisons for their Pay, during the time of their continuance, and to the Inhabitants thereof, and of the adjacent Counties for Quarters, are become very great: Now that the said arrears may be brought in, and issued forth according to the true intent and meaning of the said Ordinances, Be it Ordained, and it is Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, That the Committee of Lords and Commons for the Eastern Association, and the Committees of the several Counties mentioned in the said Ordinances, shall have Power, and are hereby Authorized to execute the said several Ordinances according to the Powers and Authorities to them thereby granted respectively. And the said Committees are hereby Ordered to take effectual care for the full and speedy Assessing, Raising, Levying, and Collecting of all the said arrears: And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Committee of Lords and Commons for the Eastern Association, shall have Power to employ and dispose of all the said arrears, to the intents and purposes of the said several Ordinances, according to the Authority to them hereby granted.  
Jo. Brown Cleric. Parliam.