Tuesday, the 26th of July, 1653.
Army Treasurers.
COLONEL Clerk reports from the Committee of
the Army, A List of the Number and Qualities of
the Persons employed by the present Treasurers at War.
A List of the Numbers and Qualities of the Persons
employed by the present Treasurers at War, for the
Management of the Trust committed to them in relation
to the receiving the Monthly Assessments, and other
Monies raised in England, for Pay of the Forces raised
by Authority of Parliament for the Service of this Commonwealth in England, Ireland, and Scotland, together
with the yearly Salaries allowed to them by the said Treasurers, out of their Allowance of Three thousand Pounds
a Year; viz.
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£. |
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d. |
| Two Cashiers, each by the Year, One hundred Pounds |
200 |
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- |
| One Accomptant, by the Year |
60 |
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| Two Tellers of Money, each Sixty Pounds |
120 |
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| One Door-keeper, or Messenger, and Teller, upon Occasion |
40 |
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| One Deputy in Scotland, at |
243 |
6 |
8 |
| One Assistant to him, at |
121 |
13 |
4 |
| One Deputy in Ireland, at |
273 |
15 |
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| One Assistant to him, at |
121 |
13 |
4 |
| One Clerk to him, at |
91 |
5 |
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| Total by the Year is Per me John Blackwell. |
1,271 |
13 |
4 |
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Memorandum: There are some other incident Charges: Viz. For the Office, and Charges of fitting and repairing That; as also for Fire, Candles, Books, Paper, &c. which for the last Year, ending the First of January 1652, amounted to about |
150 |
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| Total £. |
1,421 |
13 |
4 |
Army Committee, &c.
The House resumed the Debate upon the Bill for
appointing a Committee for the Army, and Treasurers at
War.
The Question being put, That the Salary of the Treasurers at War, shall be after the Rate of Five-and-twenty
hundred Pounds by the Year;
The House was divided.
The Yeas went forth.
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Major Gen. Harrison, |
Tellers for the Noes: |
54. |
| Captain Howard, |
With the Noes, |
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Mr. Strickland, |
Tellers for the Yeas: |
44. |
| Colonel Clerk, |
With the Yeas, |
So it passed in the Negative.
Resolved, That twelve hundred Pounds shall be the
Salary for the Treasurers for the Army, for Six Months.
Resolved, That Captain John Blackwell the younger,
shall be one of the Treasurers at War, for these Six
Months.
Resolved, That Captain Richard Deane shall be the
other Treasurer at War, for these Six Months.
Resolved, That Mr. James Phillips be added to the
Committee of the Army.
Resolved, That Captain Richard Price be added to the
Committee of the Army.
The Clause enabling the Committee to have Power to
alter or add to Commissioners, Assessors, &c. from the
Word "fit," in the last Line of the Third Folio, to the
Word "and," in the Fourth Line of the Fourth Folio,
was read.
The Question being put, That that Clause do stand in
the Bill;
It passed in the Negative.
Resolved, That this Bill, thus amended, be ingrossed.
Admiralty.
A Bill for constituting Commissioners for ordering and
managing the Affairs of the Admiralty and Navy, was
this Day read the First and Second time.
Resolved, That Major-General Desborough be one of
the Commissioners for the Admiralty and Navy.
Resolved, That the Time for the Continuance of this
Bill be "the 4th of December 1653."
Resolved, This Bill be committed to the Committee
of the Law, to bring it in To-morrow Morning.
Prisons, &c.
Ordered, That the Committee for Prisons and Prisoners have Power to administer an Oath to Witnesses.