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Section V Forging, &c. Licence.

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Penalty £50 and other Punishment.

And be it enacted further by the Authority aforesaid That if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall forge or counterfeit any Licence or Licences or travel with such forged or counterfeited Licences for the Purposes aforesaid such Person shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds One Moiety thereof to the King the other Moiety to him that shall prosecute or sue for the same to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of His Majesties Courts of Record at Westminster in which no Essoign Protection Wager of Law or more than one Imparlance shall be allowed and shall be subject to such other Pains and Penalties as may be inflicted on Persons for Forgery.