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Penalty on persons not performing the matters hereby required.
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XXXIX. And be it further enacted, That is any person or persons authorized and required by this act, in respect of his or their office or offices, to perform, any act or thing directed and required to be done or performed, pursuant to any of the provisions of this act, shall wilfully neglect or refuse to do or perform the same, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, every such person so neglecting or refusing shall, on being duly convicted thereof, forfeit the sum of five hundred pounds to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and for the second offence shall forfeit in like manner the sum of five hundred pounds to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and shall from thenceforth be rendered incapable of serving his Majesty in any office or employment relative to the revenue, or in any civil capacity whatever.
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