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Section X Officers of the Exchequer, Mint, &c. making Default.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Double Damages; Penalties how recovered.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That in all Cases where any Matter or Thing is by this Act injoyned to bee done by any of of His Majesties Officers of the Exchequer or of the Mints or by any Receiver General or any other Officer of His Majesties herein imployed and such Officer shall make wilfull Default in the Performance thereof by which any Person or Persons whatsoever shall be grieved or suffer any Losse or Damage then and in every such Case the Officer or Officers making such Default shall bee liable by virtue of this Act to answer and pay Double Damages to the Party grieved or injured And that all Penalties and Forfeitures ariseing by this Act in all Cases where noe speciall Remedy is before appointed for Recovery thereof shall and may bee recovered by Action of Debt Bill Suit or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record X1wherein noe Essoign Protection Wager of Law or more than One Imparlance shall bee granted.

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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: where O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]