# Coin Act 1694, Section VIII: Persons apprehending and convicting Clippers, &c. shall upon the Judges Certificate receive £ 40 of the Sheriff without Fee;


on tendering Certificate of Conviction, &c; Judges, &c. certifying to settle Dispute touching Reward; Sheriff not paying Reward to forfeit double to the Apprehender; and Treble Costs.
And whereas the Coin of this Realme is of late much clipped and counterfeited for want of due encouragement to bee given to such persons as shall discover the same Bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First day of May One thousand six hundred ninety five all and every person and persons who shall apprehend and take any person or persons who have counterfeited any of the Currant Coin of this Realme or that for lucre or gaine have clipped washed filed or any ways diminished the same or shall bring or cause to bee brought into this Kingdome the Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed any clipt false or counterfeit Coyne and prosecute such person or persons until hee she or they bee convicted for any such Offence shall have and receive from the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the County where such Conviction shall bee made for every such Offender soe convicted the sum of Forty pounds (without paying any Fee for the same) within one Month after such conviction and demand thereof made by tendring a Certificate to the said Sheriff or Sheriffs for the time being under the Hand or Hands of the Judge or Justices before whom such Traytor or Traytors Offender or Offenders as aforesaid shall bee convicted certifying the Conviction of such Traytor or Traytors done within the County of the said Sheriff or Sheriffs And that such Traytor or Traytors was or were taken and prosecuted by the person or persons claimeing the said Reward which Certificate as aforesaid the said Judge or Justices are hereby required to give And in case any dispute shall happen to arise between the persons apprehending and prosecuting to Conviction such Traytors as aforesaid touching their Right and Title to the said Reward that then the said Judge or Justices soe respectively certifying as aforesaid shall in and by their said Certificate direct and appoint the said Reward to bee paid unto and amongst the parties claiming the same in such share and proportions as to the said Judge or Justices shall seem just and reasonable And if default of payment of the said sum or su[m]ms of money shall happen to bee made by any Sheriff or Sheriffs such Sheriff or Sheriffs soe makeing default shall forfeit to the person or persons to whom such money is due as aforesaid double the su[m]m or su[m]ms of money hee ought to have paid to bee recovered by him or them or his or their Executors or Administrators in any of his Majesties Courts of Record att Westminster by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information wherein but One Imparlance and noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall bee allowed with Treble Costs of Suite by him or them expended in recovery of the same.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/6-7/17/section/VIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/coin-act-1694/section-VIII
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