Section VII Lenders and Furnishers of Goods, &c. to have free Access to Books.

Tally for Money lent. ; Interest at? £6 per Cent, per Ann. to be paid every Six Months. ; Persons furnishing the Navy or Ordnance with Goods, to have Warrants for Payments forthwith, on Certificate without Fee.; Orders to be registered and paid in due Course without undue Preference.; Who shall be accounted the First Person to be paid; who the Second, and so successively,; No Fees for providing Books; or for Payment upon Orders.; Penalty.; Undue Preference by Officer; Penalty.; By Deputy; Penalty.; Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, or Teller offending; Penalty.

That it shall be lawfull for any person or persons willing to lend any money or to furnish any Wares Victualls Necessaries or Goods on the credit of this Act at the usuall times when the Exchequer is open to have accesse unto and view and peruse all or any of the said Bookes for their Information of the state of those Moneyes and all Ingagements upon them for their better incouragement to lend any Moneyes or furnish any Goods or Wares as aforesaid. And that the respective Officers and their Deputyes and Clerks in whose custodie such Bookes be or shall be, shall be assistant to such persons for their better and speedier satisfaction in that behalfe, That all and every person and persons who shall lend any moneyes to Your Majestie and pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall immediately have a Tally of Loane strucke for the same, and an Order for his repayment bearing the same Date with his Tally, in which Order shall be alsoe a Warrant contained for payment of Interest for forbearance after the rate of Six per Cen? per Annum for his consideration to be paid every Six monethes untill the repayment of his Principall, And that all person and persons who shall furnish Your Majestie, Your Officers of the Navy or Ordnance with any Wares Goods Victualls or other necessaries for the service aforesaid shall upon Certificate of the Co[m]mis[sion]ers and Officers of the Navy, or of the Master or Co[m]mis[sion]ers & Officers of the Ordnance or some of them without delay forthwith X1have made out to them Warrants or Orders for the payments of the moneyes due or payable unto them, which Certificates the said Officers of your Navy, Co[m]mis[sion]ers and Officers of the Ordnance shall make without Fee Charge or Delay, And that all Orders for X2the repayments of money lent shall be registred in course according to the Date of the Tallyes respectively, And that all Orders signed by the Lord Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer for the payment of money for Goods Wares Victualls and other necessaries furnished to your Majestie, your Officers Master or Co[m]mis[sion]ers aforesaid shall be registred in course according to the time of bringing to the Office of the Auditor of X3 Receipt the Certificates above mentioned, And that all Orders soe signed for payments directed by his Majestie shall be entred in course according to their respective Dates, and none of the sortes of Orders abovementioned either for Loanes of Money, Supplyes of Wares Goods Victualls or Necessaries or by speciall direction shall have preference one before another, but shall all be entred in their course according to the Dates of the Tallyes, the times of bringing the Certificates and the dates of the Orders for payments directed by his Majestye as they are in point of time respectively before each other. And that all and every person and persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders shall stand entred in the said Register booke, be it Orders for payments directed by His Majestie or for moneyes le nt or for Wares Co[m]modities or other necessaries furnished as aforesaid soe as that that person his Executors Administrators and Assignes who shall have his Warrant or Order Warrants or Orders first entred in the said Booke of Registry shall be taken and accounted as the first person to be paid upon the moneyes to come in by vertue of this Act, and he or they that shall have X4his or their Warrants or Orders Warrant or Order next entred shall be taken and accounted the second person to be paid and soe successively and in course. And that the moneyes to come in by this Act shall be in the same order lyeable to the satisfaction of the said respective partyes their Executors Administrators or Assignes successively without preference of one before another and not otherwise. And that noe Fee Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly be demanded or taken of any of Your Majestyes Subjects for provideing or makeing of such Bookes, Registers, Entryes, View, Search, Certificate in or for payment of money lent, or the interest thereof, or for payment of any money upon any Order upon any Contract for Wares and goods furnished to the use of your Majesties Navy and Ordnance as aforesaid by any of your Majesties Officer or Officers their Deputies or Clerkes on paine of payment of treble dammages to the party grieved by the partie offending with costs of Suite, And if the Officer himselfe take or demand any such Fee or Reward. then to lose his place alsoe. And if any undue preference of one before another shall be made either in point of registring contrary to the true meaning of this Act by any such Officer or Officers, then the partie offending shall be lyeable by Action of Debt or on the case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the partie grieved, And shall be forejudged from his Place or Office. And if such preference be unduely made by any his Deputie or Clerke without direction or privity of his Master then such Deputie or Clerke onely shall be lyable to such Action Debt Damages and Cost and shall for ever after be incapeable of the same, And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order, or the Clerke of the Pells record or the Teller make payment according to each persons due place and order as afore directed then he or they shall be judged to forfeite and their respective Deputies and Clerks herein offending be lyeable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such manner as aforesaid