TWO ORDINANCES OF THE LORDS and COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT, One For the raising six thousand pounds for payment of the four hundred Souldiers, added to the Forces already in the Tower of London, The other For the continuance of the Committee of the Army, and Treasurers at Wars.  

Die Lunae, 24 April. 1648.  
ORdered by the Lords Assembled in Parliament, That these two Ordinances be forthwith printed and published.  
joh. Brown clear. Parliamentorum.   
Imprinted at London for John Wright at the Kings Head in the old Bayley. 1648.   


Die Lunae 24. April. 1648.  
An Ordinance for raising six thousand pounds for the four hundred Souldiers added to the Forces already in the Tower of London.  
WHereas both Houses of Parliament have thought fit and appointed that four hundred Souldiers, with their Officers, should be added to the Forces already in the Tower of London, for the safe guarding of the City of London from Insurrections and Tumults, which being over and above the established Army, no provision is made for their payment, and for the providing of Bedding, and other necessary Accommodations for the use of the soldiery appointed for the service there; It is therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, that all such sum and sums of money as shall be received by, and come into the hands of the Committees of Sequestration in the City of London and Liberties thereof, City of Westminster, and other parts within the late Line of Communication, and of the County of Essex, or by their respective Treasurers or Receivers, not exceeding the sum of six thousand pounds, shall be, and are hereby appointed immediately after the Receipt thereof to be paid to the Committee of Lords and Commons for advance of Money, usually fitting at Haberdashers Hall, or to their Treasurer for the time being, by the Receivors and Collectors thereof, together with all such sum, and sums of money, as do remain in the hands of any of the said Sequestrators, Treasurers, or Collectors, or which they are chargeable with, or accountable for to the State, which said six thousand pounds is hereby Ordered, to be disposed and paid by the said Committee, to colonel Tichborne lieutenant of the Tower of London, for the payment of the said Forces, and the said Committee of Lords and Commons aforesaid, are hereby authorised and appointed, to call all and every the Committees, Sequestrators, Treasurers, Collectors, and others employed in the business of Sequestration in the places aforesaid, to account, and to require true and perfect accounts of their Receipts and Payments; And for the better discovery of the truth of such accounts, to administer an Oath to the said several Committees, Sequestrators, and Receivors to make just and true accounts; and that the said Committee shall have full power to put in effectual execution all and every the Ordinances, Orders, and Instructions concerning Sequestrations, and to leavy the penalty upon the parties liable to the same, in the limits and places aforesaid, according to the said Ordinances and instructions in that behalf, and the acquittance or acquittances of the Treasurer to the said Committee of Lords and Commons shall be a sufficient discharge to the Collectors and Receivors for Sequestration aforesaid, for such sum and sums of money as they or any of them shall pay in pursuance of this Ordinance, any Ordinances, or Orders of Parliament heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding.   

Die Lunae, 24. April. 1648.  
An Ordinance for the continuance of the Committee of the Army, and the Treasurers at wars.  
WHereas by an Ordinance of Parliament of the 15. of March last past,( entitled) An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for raising moneys to be employed for the maintenance of the Forces under the Command of Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Knight, the monthly sum of sixty thousand pounds is to be assessed, levied; and paid in the respective Counties, Cities, and places therein mentioned, within the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales, to continue for six Moneths from the 25. day of March now last past, until the 29. day of September next following, but no persons are nominated and appointed by the said Ordinance to receive and issue the said moneys; To the end therefore that the moneys appointed to be taxed and levied by the said Ordinance of Parliament, may be more orderly received and issued out, the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled have Ordained, and be it Ordained by authority of Parliament; That the Committee of Lords and Commons, and Treasurers at Warres, name, instituted, and appointed in and by an Ordinance of Parliament, of the 23. of September, 1647. entitled, An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, for Members of both Houses to be a Committee for the Army, for the disposing of the 60000. l. a month; And the powers and authorities thereby given and appointed to the said Committee, Treasurers, and Persons jointly or severally, or to any of them name and mentioned in the said Ordinance, shall be continued and in full force, strength, and efficacy, for the more orderly taxing, receiving, and issuing out the money raised, and to be raised by virtue of the said Ordinance of the 15 of March last, as fully and ample to all intents and purposes, as is expressed in the said Ordinance of the 23. of September last, or in any other the Ordinances of Parliament therein mentioned and expressed; And the said Treasurers at Warres shall have, and be allowed all such pay and allowances as are mentioned, expressed, or declared in the said Ordinance of the 23. of September last, and shall pay and issue out all the moneys to be received by them, upon the said Ordinance of the 15. of March last, and all other moneys to be received by them as Treasurers at Warres, according to such rules and directions as are set down, and mentioned in the said Ordinance of the 23. of September last, and no otherwise, nor to any other uses, intents, or purposes whatsoever; And be it further Ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the Committee and Treasurers aforesaid do make due allowance and payment of all free quarter taken, or to be taken from the said 25 of March last, by any the Forces mentioned in the said Ordinance of the 15 of March last, or any of them, according to the Propositions in that behalf appointed, And to put in execution the instructions, rules, and directions made and Ordained in that behalf by both Houses of Parliament the 16 of May, 1645.  
Jo. Brown, clear. Parliamentorum.   
FINIS.