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<P>DIEV ET MON DROIT</P>
<P>HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE</P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; An Order and Declaration.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHEREAS</HI> the pay of His Maje&s;ties Armies depends upon due &s;atisfaction of the Arrears of former A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments, and of the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment of One hundred thou&s;and pounds by the month, now collecting by vertue of an Act for &s;ix months, beginning the Twenty fifth of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, and ending the Twenty fourth of <HI>June</HI> next, and other Revenues due by Recu&s;ants and others; Whereof, if punctual and timely payment be not made, (though not originally impo&s;ed by &s;uch an Authority as was Legal) the Soldiers will be nece&s;&s;itated upon Free Quarter, to the great oppre&s;&s;ion of the &s;everal Counties: Out of a tender care therefore to prevent &s;o great an inconvenience to the Country, and di&s;couragement to the Soldiery, and to promote His Maje&s;ties pre&s;ent &s;ervice, The Lords and Commons in Parliament a&s;&s;embled, do hereby Order and Declare in re&s;pect of the in&s;tant nece&s;&s;ity, there being no other way to avoide the Inconveniencies herein mentioned, that the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment in the &s;everal Coun|ties, Cities and Places by vertue hereof, do proceed effectually for the getting in of all Arrears of A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ments, and of the Monys unpaid upon the &s;aid Act, or any other Act, according to the proporti|ons and powers therein contained; and all Collectors and other per&s;ons what&s;oever, charged with the gathering or payment of any part thereof, are forthwith (all pretences and excu&s;es to the contrary &s;et a&s;ide) to &s;atisfie and pay their &s;everal and re&s;pective Proportions according to the directions of the &s;aid Acts, as they will avoid &s;uch penalties, as will nece&s;&s;arily fall upon them in ca&s;e of their refu&s;al, and the further di&s;plea&s;ure of the Parliament; And it is further Ordered and Declared, That all Re|ceivers, and other Officers and Per&s;ons, as well Tenants as others what&s;oever, concerned in the Re|ceipt or Payment of any part of the Revenue, do make due Accompts and Payments of what they and every of them are charged with, or liable to, as they will be an&s;werable for their contempt and neglect, in a time when His Maje&s;ties and the Kingdoms &s;ervice and occa&s;ions requires, the mo&s;t punctual &s;atisfaction of what is re&s;pectively due from them; And the Receipt of the &s;everal Trea|&s;urers appointed for the &s;aid A&s;&s;e&s;sments, and the Officers of the Exchequer thereunto appointed re|&s;pectively, &s;hall be a &s;ufficient di&s;charge to all Per&s;on and Per&s;ons that &s;hall make payment of any Sum or Sums of Money by vertue hereof.</P>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>Thur&s;day, 17 May. 1660.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>ORdered by the Commons a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, that this Order and Declaration be forthwith Printed and Publi&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>W. JESSOP, Clerk of the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Edward Husbands</HI> and <HI>Thomas Newcomb,</HI> Printers to the Commons Hou&s;e of Parliament.</P>
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