THREE ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT: 1 For defraying the Salaries and Charges of the Committee, and Sub-Committees of Accounts. 2 Appointing the Committees of Sequestrations in the several Counties of England and Wales, speedily to deliver in an Account of all the sequestrated Lands and Goods, and how they have been disposed of. 3 Of the names of the Peers added to the Committee of the Navy and Customs. Die Veneris, 17 Decemb. 1647. ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament, That these Ordinances be forthwith printed and published. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. London printed for John Wright at the King's Head in the old Bayley. 1647. Die Veneris, 17 Decemb. 1647. An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, for defraying the Salaries of the Officers, and necessary incident charges of the Committee, and Sub-Committees for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom. Whereas the Arrears due unto the State upon several Accounts out of which the salaries of the several Registers, Accomptants, and other Officers of the Committee, and Sub-Committees for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom, and the necessary incident Charges of the said Committee, and Sub-Committees for House Rend where they fit for that Service, Books, Paper, and the like, should be defrayed, have been by divers late Ordinances of Parliament disposed of in most Counties to the use of the said Counties, or otherwise, or else are payable to proper Treasurers formerly appointed by Order or Ordinance of Parliament, whereby the taking of the said Accounts is much obstructed; and like to fall to the ground for want of moneys to defray the Officers salaries, and the necessary incident charges of the said Committee, and Sub-Committees; Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That the Chamberlain of London for the time being, shall have power to receive Arrears due upon any Account taken before the Committee for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom. And that the several Treasurers appointed by the Committee, and Sub-Committees of Accounts in any County, to receive the Arrears due upon Accounts within the said County, shall have power and authority by virtue of this present Ordinance to receive all Arrears, discovered, and found by them to be due upon any Account taken by them in those respective Counties, notwithstanding any former Ordinance, or Ordinances to the contrary. And the said Chamberlain of London, and the said Treasurers, shall from time to time out of the said Arrears pay unto the several Officers, and other persons employed by the said Committee, and respective Sub-Committees, such sum or sums of money for their Salary and pains, as have or shall be allowed them according to the Ordinance of the 26. of June, 1645. and to defray the necessary incident Charges of the said Committee, and Sub-Committees for House Rend where they sit for that Service, Books, Paper, etc. and shall pay all the overplus of the said arrears (if any be) unto the proper Treasurers appointed by any Act or Ordinance yet in force to the uses therein limited. And that in case the Arrears due upon Accounts payable to the Chamberlain of London, shall not be sufficient to defray the said Salaries and necessary incident charges of the Officers of the Committee for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom; That then the fifteen hundred pounds formerly appointed to be paid unto them out of the Excise, by an Ordinance of the fifth day of June last passed, shall be paid to them accordingly, otherwise the said Ordinance for the said fifteen hundred pounds shall be void and null. Provided that the several sums of money to be issued out for the payment of the Salaries of the Officers of the Committee and Sub-Committees for taking the Accounts and the incident Charges aforesaid, shall be from time to time issued out by the said Chamberlain of London, and the several respective Treasurers aforesaid, by Warrant under the hands of the Committee for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom, or any five of them, to such person or persons as shall be comprised in the said Warrants; And that the said Warrant or Warrants, together with the Acquittances of the said person or persons therein comprised, shall be a sufficient discharge unto the said Chamberlain and Treasurers for the several sums so issued. Joh. Brown Cler. Parliamentorum. Die Veneris, 17 Decemb. 1647. IT is Ordained by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, That the Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Kent, Earl of Rutland, Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Nottingham, Earl of Salisbury, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Manchester, Earl of Mulgrave, Earl of Stanford, Lord Viscount Say & Seal, Lord Dacres, Lord Lawarr, Lord Wharton, Lord North, Lord Montigue, Lord Grace de Warke, Lord Howard of Estrick, Lord Herbert, and Lord Bruce, and the Committee for the Navy and Customs, already constituted and appointed, or any five or more of them, shall be a Committee for the Navy and Customs, and are hereby authorized to do all such Act or Acts, and execute all such power as is, or hath been formerly granted to the Committee of the Navy and Customs, by any Order or Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament. Jo. Brown, Cler. Parliamentorum. Die Veneris, 17 Decemb. 1647. ORdered by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament, That all Committees of Sequestrations in the several Counties of England and Wales, do take care that all sequestrated Lands in the said several Counties be improved to the utmost values, and that they put in execution the former Orders made by both or either of the Houses of Parliament concerning the same, and that they speedily deliver in an Account of all the sequestered Lands and Goods within the said Counties, and what hath been made thereof, and how the same have been disposed, according to the Ordinances made for Accounts unto the several Sub-Committees of Accounts in the said several Counties, before the first day of March next ensuing, or otherwise deliver in all their Accounts aforesaid unto the Committee for taking the Accounts of the whole Kingdom, before the five and twenty day of March next coming. Jo. Brown, Cler. Parliament. FINIS.