{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/receipt-of-exchequer-act-1696/section-XIII",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/8-9/28",
  "legislation_title": "Receipt of Exchequer Act 1696",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/receipt-of-exchequer-act-1696",
  "path": "section/XIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "XIII",
  "heading": "Auditor once in Twenty-eight Days to visit every Teller's Cash, and once in Three Months examine their Vouchers.",
  "text": "And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Auditor of the Receipt by himselfe or his chief Clerk from and after the Twentieth Day of April One thousand six hundred ninety seven doe att least once in every Eight and twenty Days call the proper Officers of the said Receipt together and visitt every Tellers Cash and by numbring the Baggs opening them or some of them promiscuously and (if hee thinks itt necessary) by weighing or telling the Money or any part thereof doe see that the respective Tellers have in real Money the Remains wherewith hee charges them and that hee doe as frequently as hee thinks fitt but att least once in every Three Months carefully examine the Tellers Vouchers for the Payments which hee allows them in his weekly Certificates.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/8-9/28/section/XIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:23:11.571394+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}