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Penalty on Persons offering Bribes, &c. to Officers of Army, Navy, or Marines, 100l.
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XLVII. And be it further enacted, That if any Person or Persons whatever shall give, offer, or promise to give any Bribe, Recompence, or Reward to, or make any collusive Agreement with, any Commissioned or Non-commissioned or Warrant Officer of His Majesty’s Army, Navy, or Marines, to do, conceal, or connive at any Act by which His Majesty might be defrauded in His Revenue of Customs and Excise, whether any such Bribe or Offer shall have been accepted or not, every such Person or Persons shall for each and every such Offence forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds. ‘Act may be altered this Session, §48.’
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