Section LVIII Receivers of Duty on Salt to give an annual Account to the Auditors of the Imprest, to be declared before the Treasurer, &c. who may examine Receiver on Oath.

Receivers to produce proper Vouchers.; Accounts taken by Auditors declared before the Treasury.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such Receiver or Receivers General or other person or persons who is or shall bee employed in the receiving collecting or paying the several duties upon Salt by this Act granted shall and are hereby required between the five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred ninety five and the nine and twentieth day of September following and soe from yeare to yeare yearely att those times dureing the continuance of this Act to deliver in their respective Accounts thereof to their Majesties Auditors of the Imprest for the time being or one of them who shall and are hereby from time to time respectively authorized to examine upon Oath the said Receiver or Receivers General or other person or persons accomptants which are or shall bee employed in raiseing receiving and collecting the said duties of what su[m]m or su[m]ms of Money was or were by them or any of them respectively raised collected or received within the time of such their accompts and likewise what part thereof was by them or any of them paid into their Majesties receipt of Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privy Seale or Warrant of the Lord High Tresurer or Co[m]missioners of their Majesties Tresury for the time being otherwise paid and to whom and for what service or services And in makeing the said Accompts to and before the said Auditors or one of them they are to produce proper vouchers for every su[m]m or su[m]ms of money soe by them or any of them raised received and paid according to the antient methods of the Exchequer And to the end it may appeare upon record what the same amounted to in the yeare for which such Accompt or Accompts shall bee made and what thereof was paid and to whom and for what use and service uses and services as aforesaid and what remaines unpaid and rests insuper upon each respective Receiver and Collector and such Accompt or Accompts soe to bee taken by the said Auditor is and are to bee declared before the Lord Tresurer or Lords Commissioners of the Tresury and Chancellor of the Exchequer now and for the time being according to the course of the Exchequer in such cases.