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Provision for payment of sums due on Exchequer bills proved to have been accidentally lost or destroyed.
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16. In case proof shall be made on the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, before the barons of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer, or any of them, that any such Exchequer bill has, by casualty or mischance, been lost, burnt, or otherwise destroyed, before the same shall have been paid off and discharged, and if by such oath or oaths the numbers and sums of such bill or bills shall be ascertained, and the said barons, or any of them, before whom such oath or oaths shall be made shall certify that he or they are satisfied with such proof, then and in every such case the Treasury are hereby authorized to cause the money due upon such bill or bills so lost, burnt, or destroyed to be paid in like manner as if the original bill or bills were brought in to be paid off; provided that the person or persons so receiving the money do give security to the Queen, to the good liking of the person or persons appointed or who shall be appointed as aforesaid to pay off and take in the said bills, to pay in to the receipt of the Exchequer, for the use of the public, so much money as shall be paid upon such certificate or certificates, if the bill or bills so certified to be lost, burnt, or destroyed shall be thereafter produced.
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