Section XVI Collectors keeping Monies collected in their Hands, or unduly paying away the same.

Penalty £5.; Receiver General or his Deputy unduly paying Monies received under this Act.; Penalty £500.

And for the more effectuall doeing thereof and that the said Moneys hereby given may be applyed to the use and service aforesaid Bee it further enacted And it is enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any Collector of any Parish or Place shall keepe in his hands any part of the said 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 Receiver 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 Collector by vertue of this Act to any person or persons whatsoever other then the Receipt of His Majestyes Exchequer and that at or within the respective, times limitted by 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 and Under. Treasurer or either of them or Coo[m]missioners of the Treasury for the time being or upon any Talley of Pro or Talley of Anticipation or, other wayes or device whatsoever whereby to X1divert or hinder the actuall Payment thereof into the Receipt of the Exechequer 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.