Section XIV Books of Receipts and Disbursements to be kept by the Chamberlain;

free Access thereto without Fee.; Accompts to be audited yearly upon Oath.; Allowance to Auditor.; Accompts so audited, allowed by the Court of Aldermen.

And to the end the said moneys may be duely applied to the uses aforesaid for which the same are by this Act appointed and appropriated be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That there shall from time to time be provyded and kept by the said Chamberlaine for the said City of London for the time being one or more book or books of vellom or parchment in which all moneys to be received by any the ways or meanes herein before menc[i]oed shall from time to time as the same shall bee received bee entred or sett downe and for what the same was received And alsoe one other X1like book or books wherein the accompts of all payments and disbursements out of the same shall be likewise entred expressing the time when the occasion for which and the name of the person or persons to whom the same were soe paid and disbursed And that it shall and may be lawfull to and for all and every person and persons to have free access unto and view of the said respective books of receipts and disbursements att all times between the Houres of Nine and Twelve in the Forenoon without any fee or reward to be taken for the view or inspection thereof And that the receipts and payments of all the moneys aforesaid by the said Chamberleyne of the said City or other Officer who shall be appointed by the said Mayor Co[m]monalty and Citizens to receive or issue out the said moneys be audited yearely upon oath before one of the Auditors of the Imprest for the time being (which oath the said Auditors respectively are hereby required to administer) between the Feast days of Saint Michael the Archangel and Saint Thomas the Apostle And the said Auditor shall have and receive of the Chamberleyne of the City of London for the time being the su[m]m of twenty shillings and noe more for every thousand pounds the said accompts shall amount unto the which accompts so auditted shall be signed by the said Auditor and be allowed alsoe by the said Mayor and Court of Aldermen and fairely entred and remain in the Chamber of the said City to bee perused and viewed as aforesaid.