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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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