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If governor, &c. of said corporation shall at any time on account of said corporation, purchase any lands or revenues of the crown, or lead any money to your Majesty, &c. by way of loan upon any branch of your revenue except that branch where a credit of loan is given by parliament under penalty of treble the sum lent,
one half to informer, the other for publick uses under direction of parliament.
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XI. Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the governor, deputy governor, directors, managers, assistants, or other members of the said corporation, so to be established, shall, upon account of the said corporation, at any time or times, purchase any lands or revenues belonging to the crown, or advance or lend to your Majesty, your heirs or successors, any sum or sums of money, by way of loan, or anticipation, on any part or parts, branch or branches, fund or funds of the revenues granted, or belonging to, or hereafter to be granted to your Majesty, your heirs or successors, other than such fund or funds, part or parts, branch or branches of the said revenue only, on which a credit of loan is or shall be granted by Parliament, that then the said governor, deputy governor, directors, managers, or assistants, or other members of the said corporation, who shall consent, agree to, or approve of, the advancing or lending to your Majesty, your heirs or successors, such sum or sums of money as aforesaid; and each and every of them so agreeing, consenting, or approving, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall for every such offence, forfeit treble the value of every such sum or sums of money so lent, whereof one half shall be to the informer, to be recovered in any of your Majesty's courts of record at Dublin, by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, and the residue to be disposed of towards publick uses, as shall be directed by Parliament, and not otherwise.
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