Draft of MINT00868 (Mint 19/1/450-51)

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That a fit person be found out to attend the Warden of the Mint as a Clerk & Sollicitor for drawing up Informations & Warrants & entring them in Books & seeing the Warrants executed when there be occasion, & for attending Prosecutions at the Old Bayly & Assizes, & that this person be allowed a salary of 50 or [60] per annum.

That this person or Sollicitor upon being sent upon journeys to apprehend or prosecute criminals be allowed [10s] per diem for himself & his horse. And that such other persons as shall be sent upon the like services be allowed such travelling charges as the Warden shall approve of not exceeding 8s per diem for a man & a horse. And that in lieu of all pocket expences, coach hire, Court-fees & such other ordinary incident expences as cannot be ascertained by good vouchers or would perplex the Accounts, there be allowed for every house searched the summ of 50 & for every person apprehended & brought before a Iustice of peace & committed to prison the summ of 20s to be equally divided between the mere searching or apprehending & carrying to prison & for every person indicted & tried the summ of 20s to the man who by the Warden's order shall sollicit & manage the prosecution.

That the Master of the Mint be impowered by a signe Manual to pay the salary of the said Clerk or Sollicitor quarterly as it shall become due, & to advance to him such summs as by allowance or Order under the Wardens hand he shall demand for carrying on the Prosecutions, not exceeding 200li per annum, & to pay what shall be further due to the said Sollicitor upon this Accounts duly stated & allowed. And that the Auditors of the Mint be directed to allow in the Masters Accounts all the said payments not exceeding in the whole the summ of 400li per annum allowed by Act of Parliament for this service.

That the said Sollicitor do at the end of every half year lay before the Master & Comptroller of the Mint an Account of the services performed by him & his Assistants, with a certificate from the Warden in writing that they were done by his Order. And that he do also at the same time lay before the said Master & Comptroller a Bill or Bills of all the moneys to be allowed to him uppon those services, & produce the Receipts of others for moneys paid to them for their share in those services, & the Receipts of Councellours for their fees & such other Receipts or Vouchers as they hath for moneys paid by him in order to have his Bill or Bills allowed & signed by them as Vouchers to his annual Account: & that he insert nothing into those Bills without good Receipts or other good vouchers

That at the end of every year he lay his Account for that year first before the Warden of the Mint to be examined, & signed, & then before the Sollicitor of the Treasury to be examined & signed, & lastly before the Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to be allowed & sent to the Master & Worker o the Mint to be paid off.

And if the Sollicitor craves any allowance for any services, not within the Rules above mentioned, the same be laid before the Treasury at the end of his Account.

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That the said Sollicitor do at the end of every half year lay before the Master & Comptroller of the Mint, an Account of the services performed by him & his Assistants upon which any moneys may be due or have been paid to him or them with a Certificate from the Warden in writing that those services were done by his Order. And also a Bill or Bills of all the moneys due to him or others upon those services according to the allowances above mentioned. And also a Bill or Bills of all the moneys paid by him to others for which he hath Receipts. And that he insert nothing into those Bills without Receipts or other good Vouchers for the same. And that the Master & Comptroller examin & signe those Bills as Vouchers to his annual Account.