# Appropriation of Revenue Act 1700, Section XVI: Officer making undue Preference,


Penalty, and Loss of Office; Penalty on Deputy.
And if any undue Preference of one before another shall be made either in point of Register or Payment contrary to the true Meaning of this Act in reference to the said Principal and Interest payable out of the said Weekly Sums charged on the said particular Branches of Excise then the Party offending shall be liable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the Value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the Party grieved and shall be forejudged of his Place or Office And if such Preference be unduely made by any his Deputy or Clerk without Direction or Privity of his Master then such Deputy or Clerk shall also be liable to such Action of Debt Damages & Costs and shall be for ever after incapable of any Place or Office

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/12/section/XVI (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/appropriation-of-revenue-act-1700/section-XVI
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