Section XXIV XXIV. Auditors, &c. of Rents due to His Majesty or Queen Dowager, &c. to allow as herein mentioned, without Fee.X1

Penalty £20; Auditors setting any person in super for sums which ought to be allowed, or refusing to give a Discharge, Penalty, £200, Dismission, and Incapacity.

And it is hereby further enacted That all and every Auditors Reeves Recievers and their Deputy and Deputies who audit or recieve any Fee Farms 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 Crown shall allow Three Shillings for every Pound of the said Rents and proportionably for any greater or lesser Summe 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. X2Katharine the Queen Dowager or any Deputy or other Person acting for or on the Behalf of any such Auditor shall in the Account of any Reeve Reciever or otherwise set insuper any Tennant or other Person or make any such Tennant or other Person or his or their Estate liable to any Distress Forfeiture or Vexation whatsoever for any Sum or Sums of 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 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 forfeit the Sum of Two hundred Pounds to the Party grieved to be recovered as aforesaid and shall be also incapable to injoy his Office or Place or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profitt under His Majesty or the said Queen Dowager