Forfeiture of Office; Incapacity, Penalty.
Provided and bee it further enacted That noe fee reward or gratuity directly or indirectly shall bee demanded or taken of any of the said Owners or Agents their respective Executors Administrators or Assignes for the making any the said debentures or the payment of any of the said monies or for providing or making of any books registers or entries or permitting any views or X1 searches relateing to this Act by any of his Majesties Officers in the Excheq upon paine of forfeiting their offices and places and of becoming incapable of any office of trust and upon pain of payment of treble the value of any such fee reward or gratuity to the party grieved with costs of suit the same treble value to bee recovered by action of debt bill plaint or information in any of his Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster wherein noe essoigne protection priveledge wager of law injunction or order [X2of] restraint shall bee in any wise granted or allowed.
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or 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: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]