England under Charles II. from the Restoration to the Treaty of Nimeguen, 1660-1678: English History from Contemporary Writers
Taylor, W. F.
1889
The heads of the act. From MS. notes of the period in the British Museum.
[1] The king may issue commissions to receive subscriptions and to collect the same. | |
[2] The receivers are to give their acquittance sans fee, their acquittance to be an absolute discharge. | |
[3] If subscriptions be returned in the exchequer, the payment must be so likewise. | |
[4] No process out of the exchequer but within two years. | |
[5] The commissioners' directions. | |
[6] None under a peer to exceed £200. | |
[7] No peer to exceed £400. | |
[8] No commissions to issue or continue after 24 June, . | |
[9] No commissions of this nature can be issued or levied but by Parliament: this act to be no example for the future. | |