Taxation (No. 6) Act 1690

XVI. Order for Repayment transferrable.

Memorial without Fee.; Assignee may assign.; Commissioners, &c. neglecting to pay, or misapplying Monies; Punishment.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and every person and persons to whome any Moneys shall be due by vertue of this Act after Order entred in the Booke of Register aforesaid for payment thereof his Executors Administrators or Assignes by indorsment of his Order may assigne and transferr his Right Title Interest and Benefitt of such Order or any part thereof to any other which being notified in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt aforesaid and an Entry or Memoriall thereof alsoe made in the said Booke of Register for Orders (which the Officers shall upon request without Fee or Charge accordingly make) shall Entitle such Assignee his Executors Administrators and Assignes to the Benefitt thereof and payment thereon And such Assignee may in like manner assigne againe and soe toties quoties And afterwards it shall not be in the power of such person or persons who have or hath made such Assignments to make void release or discharge the same or any the Moneys thereby due or any part thereof And if the said Com[m]issioners or Governours of the Excise for the time being shall refuse or neglect to pay into the Exchequer the said Moneys in such manner as they are before required or enjoyned to doe or shall divert or misapply any part of the same Or if any [X1 other] Officer mentioned in this Act of or belonging to the Exchequer Navy or Ordnance shall offend against this Act or any Clause thereof by diverting or misapplying any Moneys whatsoever contrary to the true intent and meaning of this Act That then such Commissioner Governour or Officer soe refuseing or neglecting to pay or diverting or misapplying as aforesaid shall forfeit and lose his Office or Place and is hereby disabled and made uncapable to hold or execute any Office or Place of Trust for the future and shall be lyable to pay the full value of any Summe or Summes soe diverted or misapplyed unto any person or persons who will sue for the same by any Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of their Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection Priviledge Wager of Law or more then one Imparlance shall be granted or allowed

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