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Penalty on any commissioner, &c. being interested in any contract.
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69. If any commissioner for the execution of this Act in any city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or any treasurer of clerk of any such commissioners, shall directly or indirectly contract with, or shall be or become in any manner beneficially interested in any contract made with, any commissioner for the execution of this Act, every such commissioner, treasurer, or clerk, shall thereupon be and become and is hereby declared to be disqualified from continuing to act in his capacity of commissioner, treasurer, or clerk, and the place of any such commissioner, treasurer, or clerk, shall be declared vacant, and shall be supplied in such manner as by this Act is directed in case of a vacancy occasioned by any other cause; and such commissioner, treasurer, or clerk, so offending as aforesaid shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds to any person, being an householder within such city, town corporate, borough, market town, or other town, or the suburbs or liberties thereof as aforesaid, who shall sue for the same, to be recovered, with full costs of suit, by action or information, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record.
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