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Treasury empowered to make Rules and Regulations for keeping the Accounts of the Commissioners of Woods.
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IX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury for the Time being, or any Three or more of them, at any Time after the passing, of this Act, and from Time to Time, by Writing, under his or their Hand or Hands, to make such Rules and Regulations as he or they shall think expedient with respect to the Receipt and Payment of Monies by or on behalf of the Commissioners for the Time being of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, the Persons to be employed in conducting such Receipts and Payments, and the Manner, Form, and Place in which the Accounts of such Receipts and Payments shall be kept; and all such Rules and Regulations shall extend, not only to the Monies to be received and paid in respect of the Land Revenues of the Crown, but to all Monies to be received and paid by or to the said Commissioners, of Her Majesty’s Woods (and whether incorporated for any particular Object or not), or to any Officer duly authorized on their Behalf, under or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or otherwise; and where by any Act of Parliament now in force any Monies are directed to be paid to the said Commissioners in any Capacity, and whether as Part of the Land Revenues of the Crown or otherwise, or to a particular Account, the same may be paid into any Account, and either general or special, at the Bank of England or the Bank of Ireland, as the said Lord High Treasurer, or the said Commissioners, of Her Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, shall, by any General or Special Order, direct, and the Receipt of the Cashier of the Bank of England or the Bank of Ireland, as the Case may be, shall be a sufficient Discharge to the Persons or Bodies respectively paying the same, and without such Persons or Bodies being bound to inquire as to any such Order or Direction, and in all respects as if such Monies had been paid in pursuance of the Directions contained, in any Act of Parliament in that Behalf; and any Monies now or hereafter standing to any particular Account of the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings may be transferred to such other general or separate Account or Accounts, or otherwise, as the Lord High Treasurer, or the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, shall from Time to Time direct.
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