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REGIMENTAL ACCOUNTS ACT 1808

REGIMENTAL ACCOUNTS ACT 1808 - LONG TITLE

An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Forty-fifth Year
of his present Majesty for regulating the Office of Paymaster
General as requires certain Accounts to be examined and settled
within certain Periods by the Secretary at War, and enabling His
Majesty to make Orders for examining and settling such Accounts.{1}
[30th June 1808]
Preamble rep. by SLR 1872 (No. 2)

S.1 rep. by SLR 1872 (No. 2)

REGIMENTAL ACCOUNTS ACT 1808 - SECT 2
His Majesty may make regulations for the speedy settlement of
accounts of regimental expenditures, &c.

2. And it shall be lawful for His Majesty by any warrant or
warrants under his royal sign manual to make and issue such orders
and declare and establish such rules and regulations for the more
speedy and effectual examination and settlement of the accounts of
regimental expenditures, or of such other expenditures for army
services as usually have been or shall be hereafter examined in the
office of the [Secretary of State], as shall appear to be most
expedient, and to facilitate the final examination and settlement of
such accounts.

REGIMENTAL ACCOUNTS ACT 1808 - SECT 3
Balances due from agents, &c. not paid within a month after demand,
to be deemed a debt to His Majesty upon record.

3. Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be
construed to extend to exonerate any agent or other public
accountant from the payment of any balance that may be declared to
be due from him, upon the examination and settlement of his
accounts under any orders or rules and regulations which may be
made, issued, declared, and established by His Majesty as aforesaid;
but that the balance so declared and not paid within one month
after the same shall have been demanded shall be deemed and
considered to be a debt to His Majesty upon record, and be
recoverable as such by His Majesty, his heirs and successors, with
full costs of suit and other charges attending the same, by the
like process as by the laws of that part of the United Kingdom
wherein such agent or accountant shall reside any debt to His
Majesty arising within the same may be recovered.