Billeting Act 1679

XXIII. Collector keeping Money in Hand, or paying to Person other than Receiver General.

Penalty £5.; Receiver General or Deputy paying Monies other than into the Exchequer; Penalty £500.

And for the more effectuall doeing thereof and that the said moneys hereby given may be applyed to the use and service aforesaid Bee it further enacted And it is enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keepe in his hands any part of the said money by him collected for any longer time then is by this Act directed (other then the allowance made unto him by this Act) or shall pay any part thereof to any person or persons other then the Receiver Generall of such County or Place or his Deputy That every such Collector shall forfeite for every such Offence the summe of Five pounds And in case any Receiver Generall or his Deputie shall pay any part of the moneyes paid to him or them by any Collector by vertue of this Act to any person or persons whatsoever other then into the Receipt of the Exchequer And that at or within the respective times hereby limitted such Receiver Generall shall for every such Offence of himselfe or his Deputy forfeite the Summe of Five hundred pounds to him or them that shall sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law is to bee allowed.