Section XXVII Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received;
Penalty to Party; Penalty to Their Majesties.
And for the better preventing of such unjust Vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be 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 Account into Their Majestyes Court of Exchequer of such Sums of Money as shall be Recieved by them and every of them their and every of their Deputie and Deputies Bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any Receiver Generall shall Returne or Certifie into the said Court any Summe or Summs of Money to be in Arreare X1and unpaid after the same have beene Recieved either by such Reciever Generall or by his Deputie or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons to be Sett Insuper in the said Court for any Sum or Sums of Money that hath beene soe Recieved That then every such Reciever Generall shall forfeit to every person and persons that shall be Molested Vexed or Dammaged by reason of such unjust Certificate Returne or Setting Insuper the Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed nor any more then one Imparlance and shall alsoe forfeit to Their Majestyes Their Heires and Successors the Summe that shall be soe unjustly Certified 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]