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An Act for more effectually preventing the Embezzlement of Money or Securities for Money belonging to the Public by any Collector, Receiver, or other Person entrusted with the Receipt, Care, or Management thereof. [9th June 1810.]
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Persons embezzling money issued for public services, guilty of a misdemeanor, &c.
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Whereas it is most expedient that due provision should be made more effectually to prevent the embezzlement of money or securities for money belonging to the public by any collector, receiver, or other officer entrusted with the receipt, custody, or management thereof: Be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if any person or persons to whom any money or securities for money shall be issued for public services shall from and after the passing of this Act embezzle such money, or in any manner fraudulently apply the same to his own use or benefit, or for any purpose whatever except for public services, every such person so offending, and being thereof duly convicted according to law, in any part of the United Kingdom, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to be transported beyond the sea, or to receive such other punishment as may by law be inflicted on persons guilty of misdemeanors, and as the court before which such offenders may be tried and convicted shall adjudge. [Rep. 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 4. s. 1.]
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Officers giving in false statements of money entrusted to their care, guilty of a misdemeanor, & c., and rendered incapable of holding office under the crown.
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2. And . . . if any such officer, collector, or receiver so entrusted with the receipt, custody, or management of any part of the public revenues shall knowingly furnish false statements or returns of the sums of money collected by him or entrusted to his care, or of the balances of money in his hands or under his control, such officer, collector, or receiver so offending and being thereof convicted shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be adjudged to suffer the punishment of fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court, and be rendered for ever incapable of holding or enjoying any office under the crown.
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