Section LXVIII Collector unduly keeping Money in Hand, or paying to Persons other than Receiver General, &c.

Penalty £5.; Receiver General or Deputy paying to any other than Exchequer; or paying otherwise so as to hinder Payment into Exchequer; Penalty on Receiver General, £500.

And it is hereby further enacted and declared That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keepe in his hand any part of the Money by him collected for any longer time then is by this Act directed other then the Allowance made unto him, by this Act or shall pay any part thereof to any person or persons other then the Receivers Generall of such County or place or his Deputy That every such Collector shall forfeite for every such offence the summe of Five pounds and in case any Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any part of the Moneys paid to him or them by any Collectors by vertue of this Act to any person or persons X1 other then into the Receipt of His Majestyes Exchequer and that at or within the respective times limitted within this Act or in case such Receiver Generall or his Deputy shall pay any part of the said Moneys by any Warrant of the Lord Treasurer Under Treasurer or either of them or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time or by any Tally of Pro or Talley of Anticipation or other way or device whatsoever whereby to divert or hinder the actuall payment thereof into the Receipt of the Exchequer as aforesaid That such Receiver Generall shall for every such offence of himselfe or his Deputy forfeite the summe of Five hundred pounds to him or them that shall sue for the same in any Court of Record by Bill Plaint or other Information wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law is to be allowed.