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After passing this act, no persons exceeding six in number, except said corporation shall take up, owe, &c. any sum on their bills, &c. payable on demand, or for less time than six months, under the penalty of treble the sum borrowed, &c.
one moiety thereof to informer, the other to your Majesty, &c.
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XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for any body politick or corporate, erected or to be erected, other than the corporation hereby intended to be created and erected into a national bank, or for any other persons whatsoever, united or to be united in covenants or partnership, exceeding the number of six persons, to borrow, owe, or take up any sum or sums of money on their bills or notes payable at demand, or at any less time than six months, from the borrowing thereof, under a penalty or forfeiture by such persons, bodies politick or corporate, of treble the sum or sums so to be borrowed or taken upon such bill or bills, note or notes; one moiety thereof to be paid to the informer, and the other to the use of your Majesty, your heirs and successors, to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in any of your Majesty's courts of record at Dublin. [Rep., 8 & 9 Vict. c. 37. s. 1.]
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