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Section LI Officers appointed to receive, misapplying the said £400,000, or any Part;

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Penalty.

And it is further Enacted That if any of the Officers which are appointed by this Act to Receive the said Summe of Foure hundred thousand pounds hereby appropriated or any part thereof shall after the Receipt of the said Money divert or misapply the same or any part thereof by vertue of any Warrant from the Commissioners of the Treasury or from the Lord Treasurer or other Superior Officers for the time being contrary to the true intent of this. Act That then such Officer or Officers soe diverting or misapplying the said Money shall Forfeite the like Summe soe diverted or misapplyed Which said Forfeiture shall be Recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in any of Their Majestyes Courts of Records at Westminster wherein noe Essoigne Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed the one Moyety of which Forfeiture soe to be Recovered shall be to the Informer or him who shall Sue for the same the other Moyety thereof to be distributed to the Poore of the Parish where such Offence shall be committed.