# Excise Act 1688, Section XIV: Commissioner or Officer of Excise taking Money of any Person but the King.


Punishment.
And whereas severall Collectors Surveyors Gaugers and other persons imployed about collecting surveying or gauging the Duty of Excise have beene forced to pay severall summs of money to the Commissioners of Excise or their Registers or Clerks upon pretence that the same is for writeing signing and sealeing Instructions or Orders for every such Officer to execute his place which must cause such Officer to reimburse himselfe upon the People by one meanes or other For prevention whereof Bee it enacted That noe Commissioner or other person imployed about the Duty of Excise shall demand take or receive any summe of money or other reward whatsoever from any person other then their Majestyes upon paine of forfeiting his or their Office upon proofe thereof by two or more credible Witnesses before any two of their Majesties Justices of the Peace soe as every such person soe offending is hereby made uncapable of executeing any Office in their Majesties Revenue of the Excise for the future

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/24/section/XIV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/excise-act-1688/section-XIV
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