An Act to consolidate the Offices of Comptroller General of the Exchequer and Chairman of the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts; and for other Purposes.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Session of the Fourth and Fifth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty William the Fourth, Chapter Fifteen, intituled An Act to regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, it was enacted that "the Constitution and Establishment of the Exchequer shall consist of the following Officers; (that is to say,) a Comptroller General, to be designated Comptroller General of the Receipt and Issue of His Majesty's Exchequer, with an annual...