Section XXII The Auditor of the Imprest to take the Accounts of the Commissioners, &c. annually upon Oath.

The Accounts declared before the Treasurer, &c.

And be it enacted That the Co[m]missioners Receiver or Receivers Generall or other person or persons who are or shall be respectively employed in the directing receiveing collecting or paying the severall Imposic[i]ons upon Paper and Parchment and other Duties by this Act granted shall and are hereby required betweene the Eight and twentieth Day of June 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 exhibitt theire respective Accounts thereof to theire 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 Co[m]missioners Receiver or Receivers Generall or other Person or Persons Accomptants which shall be employed in raiseing receiveing or collecting the said Imposic[i]ons and Dutyes of what su[m]me or su[m]mes of money was or were by them or any of them respectively raised collected or received within the time of such theire Accounts and likewise what parte thereof X1was by them or any of them paid into theire Majesties receipte of Exchequer or by virtue of any Warrant of Privye Seale or Warrant of the Lord High Treasurer or Co[m]missioners of theire Majesties Treasury for the time being otherwise paid and to whome and for what service or services; And in makeing the said Accounts to and before the said Auditors or one of them they are to produce proper Vouchers for every su[m]me or su[m]mes 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 that it may appeare upon Record what the su[m]mes amounted to in the yeare for which such account or accounts are or shall be respectively made and what thereof was paid and to whome and for what use and service uses and services as aforesaid and what remaines unpaid and rests insuper upon each respective Receiver and Collector the X2 accounts soe to be taken by every of the said Auditors respectively is and are to be declared before the Lord Treasurer or Lords Co[m]missioners of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer now and for the time being according to the Course of the Exchequer in such Cases:-