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Land Tax Act 1691
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XLVIII.Officers appointed to receive the said £1,000,000 misapplying same.
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And itt is further Enacted That if any of the Officers which are appointed by this Act to receive the said Summe of Tenne hundred thousand pounds hereby appropriated or any parte thereof shall after the receipt of the said money divert or misapply the same or any parte thereof by vertue of any Warrant from the Commissioners of the Treasury or from the Lord Treasurer or other Superior Officers for the tyme being contrary to the true intent of this Act That then such Officer or Officers soe diverting or misapplying the said money shall forfeite the like Summe soe diverted or misapplyed which said Forfeiture shall bee recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in any of Theire Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall bee allowed The one Moiety of which Forfeiture soe to bee recovered shall bee to the Informer or him who shall sue for the same the other Moiety thereof to bee distributed to the Poore of the Parish where such Offence shall be com[m]itted.
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