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Taxation, etc. Act 1692
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XVI.Officer of the Exchequer to execute Act without Fee.
Such Officer offending; Penalty; Full Costs to Plaintiff in Action against such Officer; Proviso respecting Collusion.
And bee it further enacted for the better incourageing persons to advance the said sum of Ten hundred thousand pounds upon the terms aforesaid That all receipts and issues and all other things directed by this Act to be performed in the Exchequer shall be done and performed by the Officers there without demanding or receiveing directly or indirectlie any fee gratuity or reward for the same And in case any of the Officers of the Exchequer shall take or demand any such fee or reward or shall divert or misapply any of the said weekely sums to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer for makeing upp the aforesaid Funds or shall pay or issue out the same otherwise then according to the intent of this Act or shall not keep Books and Registers and make entries and do and performe all other things which by this Act they are required to performe every such Officer shall forfeit his Office and be for the future incapable of any Office or place of Trust whatsoever and shall answer and pay treble damages with costs of Suite to every Contributor their Executors Administrators and Assignes to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in any of Their Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein no Essoign Protection Priviledge of Parliament or other Priveledge Wager of Law Injunction or Order of Restraint or more than one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed And in the said Action the Plaintiffe upon Recovery shall have his full Costs one third part of which sum so to be recovered shall be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer for the benefitt of the said Contributors and the other two third parts shall be to the use of the Prosecutor And in case there shall bee any Collusion or faint Prosecution between the Plaintiffe and Defendant in such Action it shall bee lawfull for any other Contributor to bring another Action wherein hee shall recover as aforesaid to the uses aforesaid
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