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Penalty on persons who defraud collectors.
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XXX. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall deceive or defraud, or attempt to deceive or defraud any receiver or collector, to be appointed in pursuance of this act, of any part of the toll or duty which shall be justly payable to him or them by such person or persons, every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before any one or more justice or justices of the peace for the county of Wexford, or county of Kilkenny, shall respectively forfeit and pay such sum, not exceeding twenty shillings, over and besides the toll or duty which he, she, or they, were liable to pay, as to such justice or justices of the peace shall seem meet, the same to be levied and recovered as any other penalty or forfeiture is by this act directed to be levied and recovered, and applied to the use of the said commissioners and their successors.
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