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 they shall, from time to time, incur in the execution of this act; and the said treasurer is hereby required, from time to time, to keep an exact and true account of all monies by him received and disbursed in relation to this act, and shall enter such account in a book to be kept for that purpose; which book shall be lodged in the box or chest where the register of the proceedings of the said commissioners is directed to be kept, as aforesaid: which accounts shall be produced to the president of the said college, when required by the said president and elects, to be examined and settled by them; and if, upon such examination, the said accounts shall appear to be just and reasonable, the same shall be allowed and signed by the said president, and at least four of the elects, and shall be by the said president reported, together with the other accounts, at the next General Meeting of the said college; and the said account, being so allowed, signed, and reported, shall be a full discharge to the said treasurer for so much money as shall in such account appear to have been disbursed by him, on account of the execution of this act.

And, in order that the said commissioners may know when any patient is received into any such licensed house or place, as aforesaid, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the keeper of every such licensed house or place within the said cities of London and Westminster, and within seven miles of the same, and within the said county of Middlesex, is hereby required, within the space of three days after any patient shall be received into any such licensed house or place, (except such pauper lunaticks as shall happen to be sent there by parish officers), to cause notice thereof to be given to the secretary to the said commissioners, which notice shall contain the name of every such person received as a lunatick into such house or place, the name or names, and place or places of abode, of the person or persons by whose direction such lunatick was sent to such house or place, and also the name and place of abode of the physician, surgeon, or apothecary, by whose advice such direction was given; all which notices shall be sent sealed