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Treasury to cause Accounts to be taken of all Bills falling due and Money applicable thereto at the Time; and in case of Deficiency in the Exchequer for Payment thereof, the same to be supplied out of the Aids for the current Year or the Consolidated Fund.
Monies so advanced out of Aids or Consolidated Fund to be replaced by other Monies.
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XII. And be it enacted, That on the several Days and Times on which any Exchequer Bills made pursuant to the Directions of this Act shall be come payable, or within Ten Days thereafter, the said Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury shall cause a true and right Account to be taken and attested by the proper Officers of all such Exchequer Bills falling due and payable on such respective Days and Times, and of the Monies which shall then be in the Receipt of the Exchequer at Westminster applicable to the Payment and Discharge of the same; and the Deficiency shall and may be supplied and made good by and out of the Aids or Supplies which shall be or have been granted for the Service of the Year in which such Exchequer Bills shall become payable; and in case the Monies arising from such Aids or Supplies shall not at the Time be sufficient for that Purpose, then all the said Exchequer Bills remaining undischarged, with the Interest and Charges incident to or attending the same, shall be and are hereby charged and chargeable upon such Monies as at any Time or Times after any such Deficiencies shall happen shall be or remain in the Receipt of the said Exchequer of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, except such Monies of the said Consolidated Fund as may be or have been appropriated to any particular Use or Uses by any Act or Acts in that Behalf; and such Monies of the said Consolidated Fund shall and may be issued and applied from Time to Time, as soon as the same can be regularly stated and ascertained, for and towards paying off, cancelling, and discharging such remaining Exchequer Bills, Interest, and Charges, until the whole of them shall be paid off, cancelled, and discharged, or Money sufficient for that Purpose be kept and reserved in the Exchequer, to be payable, on Demand, to the respective Proprietors thereof: Provided always, that whatever Monies shall be so issued out of the Consolidated Fund shall from Time to Time be replaced by and out of the first Supplies to be thereafter granted in Parliament, any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding; and whatever Monies shall thereafter arise in the said Receipt of the Exchequer, from or on account of the Payments, Remittances, and Transfers to be made by virtue of the Provisions herein-before contained, shall be applied towards replacing the Monies before issued out of the said Aids or Supplies or Consolidated Fund, as the Case may be, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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