Section XXIV Auditors, &c. of Rents due to His Majesty, or Queen Dowager, to make Allowance as herein mentioned, without Fee, Penalty £20. Auditors unduly setting any Person insuper,

Penalty £200 and incapacity of Office.

And it is hereby further enacted That all and every Auditors Reeves Receivers and their Deputy and Deputies who audit or receive any Fee-Farme Rents or other Chief Rents due to His Majesty or the Queen Dowager or to any Person or Persons claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crowne shall allow Three Shillings for every Pound of the said Rents and proportionably for any greater or lesser Sum to the Party or Parties paying the same without any Fee for such Allowance upon the Penalty of Twenty Pounds to the Parties grieved to be recovered as aforesaid And if any Auditor of the Revenues or any of them belonging to His Majesty or to Her Majesty Katherine the Queen Dowager or any Deputy or other Person acting for or on the Behalfe of any such Auditor shall in the Account of any Reeve Receiver or otherwise set insuper any Tenant or other Person or make any such Tenant or other Person or his or their Estate lyable to any Distresse Forfeiture or Vexation whatsoever for any Sum or Sums of Money which by the true intent and meaning of this Act ought to be allowed after the said Rate of Three Shillings in the Pound or shall refuse neglect or delay to allow and finally to discharge the same in the proper Accounts wherein the same ought to be allowed or discharged That then and for every or any such Offence every such Auditor or Deputy or Person acting for such Auditor shall forfeite the Sum of Two hundred Pounds to the Party grieved to be recovered as aforesaid and shall be alsoe uncapable to enjoy his Office or Place or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profit under His Majesty or the said Queen Dowager