{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-of-public-moneys-act-1667/section-VIII",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-of-public-moneys-act-1667/section-VIII.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha2/19-20/1",
  "legislation_title": "Accounts of Public Moneys Act 1667",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/accounts-of-public-moneys-act-1667",
  "path": "section/VIII",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Recital that Ticket were given to Seamen instead of Money, and that they were obliged to sell the same.",
  "text": "Buyers of Seamen's Tickets to make up and restore to the Sellers the whole Sum.; Refusing; Imprisonment till Obedience.\nProvided alwaies and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid whereas severall Seamen after Service done to his Majesty expected to receive theire Wages and instead thereof had Ticketts delivered them for theire money due to them for theire service or otherwise upon pretence that there was a want of money to pay them to the great discouragement of the said Seamen And whereas for a present supply of themselves and theire Families they have been necessitated to sell the said Tickets for lesse then the su[m]m of money mentioned in them which Tickets have been sold from man to man Be it therefore and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners shall be and are hereby impowered to compell each Buyer of such Tickets or such who purchased from them to restore to the severall persons from whom they purchased them all or as much of the said money as they shall thinke fitt (upon the computation of Interest or any other Considerac[i]on) which remaines to make up the full Accompt or su[m]m contained in and which was due upon the said Tickets and such person or persons that have soe bought Tickets and shall refuse by Order of the said Commissioners to repay to any person or persons such su[m]m or su[m]ms of money as they shall adjudge him to pay preserving to each party the full Principal and Interest at least then in such a case and upon all such refusals it shall and may be lawfull and the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to send to any Goal or Goals all such persons so refusing untill they shall obey the Order or Orders of the said Commissioners",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "annexed to the Original Act in a seperate Schedule."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/19-20/1/section/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:28:26.258268+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}