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Scrivener or broker, &c. not to take above 5s. Per 100l. or 12d. for the bond or bill.
Penalty 20l. and six months imprisonment.
All forseitures to Queen and prosecutor.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every serivener and seriveners, broker and brokers, sollicitor and sollicitors, driver and drivers of bargains or contracts, who shall after the said twenty fifth day of March, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and four, take or receive directly or indirectly any sum or sums of money, or other reward or thing for brokage, solliciting, driving, or procuring the loan, or forbearing of any sum or sums of money, over and above the rate or value of five shillings for the loan or forbearing of an hundred pounds for a year, and so rateably, or above twelve pence for making or renewing of the bond or bill concerning the same, shall forseit for every such offence twenty pounds, and suffer imprisonment for half a year; the one moiety of all which forfeitures to be to our sovereign lady the Queen’s Majesty, her heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them, that shall sue for the same in any of her Majestics four courts in Dublin by action of debt, bill, plaint or information; in which no essoign, wager of law, or protection to be allowed.
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