Orders, &c. for issuing or paying Money contrary to Act, void.
Provided and it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Officer in the Exchequer shall divert or misapply any of the moneys that shall bee paid into the Exchequer by virtue of this Act to any other uses or purposes then are hereby directed then such Officer soe offending shall forfeit his office in the Excheq[ure], and bee incapable of any office or place of trust and shall bee lyable to pay the double value of any su[m]m or su[m]ms soe diverted or misapplied to any of the said persons named in the said debentures their respective executors administrators or assignes who will sue for the same by any action of debt bill plaint or information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein noe essoign protection wager of law priviledge of parliament or other priveledge or more then one imparlance shall bee granted or allowed And all orders and warrants for issueing paying or disposeing any of the [X1moneys] to bee raised by virtue of this Act contrary to the true intent and meaning [X2thereof] shall bee utterly void.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Money O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: hereof O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]