AN ORDINANCE OF THE Lords and Commons Assembled in PARLIAMENT, FOR THE EXPLANATION OF A former Ordinance for the Taking and Receiving of the accounts OF THE KINGDOM.  

ORdered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Ordinance be forthwith printed& published:  
Henry elsing, clear. Parl. D. come.   
London, Printed for Edward Husbands, july 11. 1644.   

An Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, for the Explanation of a former Ordinance for the taking and receiving the accounts of the Kingdom.  
WHereas upon the former Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament, for taking the accounts of the Kingdom, some doubt doth arise, whether there be sufficient power given the Committee name in that Ordinance, by the express words thereof, to determine any accounts by them taken, and to receive and keep the Vouchers which concern the same accounts; And whereas the Subcommittees to be appointed by them by virtue of the said Ordinance, in any County, City, or place where they shall think meet, have the selfsame power given them within their several limits as the said Committee hath, and are not appointed to receive any directions from, or to return any accounts unto them, which will prove inconvenient, and hinder the orderly taking of the said accounts by the said Committee.  
Be it therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament, That the said Committee or any five or more of them, shall have power and authority to determine the accounts by them taken, to give discharges in writings under the hands of any five or more of them, and to receive and keep all Vouchers which concern the same; And that all and every Subcommittees, appointed or to be appointed by virtue of the said Ordinance, shall pursue such directions as they shall from time to time receive from the said Committee of accounts, for the better ordering and expediting of their accounts, and likewise to return unto them all and singular accounts which shall be taken by them before the same shall be finally determined. And because a true account cannot be taken, of such moneys as are payed unto the Armies Officers, and Souldiers in the several Garrisons, Cities and Counties of the Kingdom, except exact Musters be duly made and kept of the said Forces, and accounts taken of the Arms and Horse in the several Counties aforesaid; It is hereby further Ordained, That the several Committees of Parliament, or such or so many of them as have power to execute the several Ordinances in the said Counties, Cities and Garrisons, shall from time to time hereafter, every month at the least, or oftener if they shall see cause, take particular Musters, and keep true Muster Rolls of all the Officers and Souldiers by name now being, or hereafter to be raised within the said several Counties, Cities and Garrisons where they are authorized as Committees of Parliament; and that all colonels, Captaines, and Officers within the said Armies, Counties, Cities, and Garrisons raised or to be raised, shall from time to time make good all Horses and arms under their several Commands, unto the said several Committees of Parliament, in the said several Counties, Cities, and Garrisons aforesaid, unless the same were lost in actual service; and the said several Committees of Parliament shall return the said Muster Rolls, or true notes of all the Musters aforesaid, and certify all the defects therein, and of arms and Horse aforesaid unto the Committee for the accounts of the Kingdom, or unto the several Sub-Committees of accounts in the several Counties of the Kingdom, which the same Sub-Committees shall return up unto the said Committee of accounts in manner and form aforesaid, to the end that satisfaction may be made unto the Common-wealth for such loss of Horse and arms out of the said Officers pay. And that all Fines to be imposed by virtue of the said Ordinance of accounts, and all such sums of money as the said Committee of accounts, or any two of them shall certify to be due, and owing by any Person or Persons upon their said accounts determined by them, shall be payed into the Chamber of London, and shall not be issued out but by Orders of both Houses; which Orders shal be first entred with the said Committee of accounts before any money be payed upon the same, other then ●●re●●s of such moneys as by particular Acts of Parliament, and Ordinances, are limited to particular Treasurers, nominated in the said Acts of Parliament, and Ordinances which shall be payed into the said Treasurers. And be it further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid, that such sum and sums of money as the said Committee, or any five of them shall find necessary for the paying and satisfying of the Registers, accountants, Clerkes, Agents, and Ministers employed by them or otherwise, for defraying any Charges for taking the said accounts, shall be payed out of the Chamber of London aforesaid, whensoever the said Committee or any five of them shall require the same, for which they shall keep and give a true and perfect account under their Hands in writing, and that according to an Order of the thirteenth of March, two hundred pound shall be forthwith payed unto the said Committee for accounts.  
FINIS.