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Receiver to be appointed.
Monies to be lodged in the Bank of Ireland.
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XXXVIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, to appoint a Person to receive all Sums of Money applicable to the Purposes of this Act, who shall be called “The Receiver for the Constabulary Force of Ireland;” and the said Lord High Treasurer or the said Commissioners, or any Three or more of them, may remove any such Person if he or they shall see Occasion so to do, and may, upon any Vacancy in that Office by Death, Removal, or otherwise, appoint another Person to be such Receiver; and the Receiver for the Time being shall give Security to His Majesty in a Bond, with Two Sureties, in such Sum as the said Lord High Treasurer or the said Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them, shall direct, such Bond to be conditioned for the faithful Performance of his Duty by such Receiver, and for the due Application of all Monies paid to him under this Act; and the Receiver for the Time being shall receive all Sums of Money applicable to the Purposes of this Act, and shall keep an exact and particular Account thereof, and shall immediately pay all Monies, Bills, and Notes by him received under this Act into the Hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, and the same shall be placed to an Account in the Books of the said Governor and Company, which shall be entituled “The Account of the Public Monies of the Receiver for the Constabulary Force in Ireland,” and such Receiver shall draw out of the said Bank from Time to Time such Sums of Money as may be necessary for the Payment of the Salaries and Allowances payable under this Act, and of all other Charges and Expences attendant upon the Execution of the same, and shall from Time to Time transmit to the Paymasters of the several Counties the Monies required to defray all such Salaries, Charges, and Expences within such Counties respectively: Provided always, that the said Receiver and the said Paymaster shall be governed, in respect to all their pecuniary Transactions, whether of Receipt or Payment, and in respect of the Periods in which and for which they shall severally and respectively deliver their Accounts of such Receipts and Payments, accompanied by the proper and necessary Vouchers in support thereof, and as to the Manner in which such Accounts shall be kept and prepared and exhibited for Audit, by such Rules and Regulations as shall be issued in that respect from Time to Time by the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury, or any Three or more of them; and every Draft or Order for Money on the Bank of Ireland, drawn by the Receiver, shall be countersigned by the Inspector General or by one of his Deputies; and all Drafts and Orders so drawn and countersigned, but not otherwise, shall be a sufficient Authority to the Bank to pay the Amount thereof to the Persons named therein or to the Bearers of them.
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