Section XXIX Receivers General certifying Arrears to be due where the Monies have been received.
Penalty to Party.; Penalty to their Majesties.
And for the better preventing of such unjust Vexations as might bee occasioned by such Persons as shall bee appointed Receivers Generall of any the Summes of Money granted by this Act and to the intent that the said Receivers Generall may returne a true Accompt into Theire Majesties Court of Exchequer of such Summes of Money as shall bee received by them and every of them theire and every of theire Deputy and Deputies Bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That if any Receiver Generall shall returne or certify into the said Court any Summe or Summes of Money to bee in arreare X1and unpaid after the same have beene received either by such Receiver Generall or by his Deputy or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons to bee sett Insuper in the said Court for any Summe or Summes of Money that hath beene soe received that then every such Receiver Generall shall forfeite to every Person and Persons that shall bee molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate Returne or setting Insuper the Damages that shall bee thereby occasioned the said Damages to bee recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Informac[i]on in which noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall also forfeite to Theire Majesties Theire Heires and Successors the Summe that shall bee soe unjustly certifyed or returned or caused to be sett Insuper.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]