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Section LXXV No Fee for providing or making Books, &c. or for Payment of Money lent.

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Penalty; Punishment.; Undue Preference by Officer; Penalty.; Undue Preference by Deputy; Penalty.

And that noe Fee Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly be demanded or taken by any of Your Majestyes Officers from any of Your Majestyes Subjects for provideing or makeing of any such Bookes Registers Entryes View Search or any other thing in for or concerning the payment of any Moneys lent or the Interest thereof as aforesaid or by any of their Clerks or Deputyes on paine of payment of treble damages to the party grieved by the party offending with Costs of Suite And if any Officer in his owne person shall take, or demand any such Fee or Reward every such Officer soe offending shall forfeite the Summe of Ten pounds for every such Offence. And if any undue preference of one before another shall be made in point of registring contrary to the true meaning of this Act by any such Officer or Officers Then the party offending shall be lyeable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the party grieved and shall be forejudged from his Place or Office and if such preference be unduely made by any his Deputy or Clerke without direction or Privity of his Master Then such Deputy or Clerke onely shall be lyable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs and shall be for ever after uncapeable of his Place or Office