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Brokers, &c. taking more than 5 s. for 100 l. or than 12d. for making the bond, &c.
Penalty 20 l. and 6 months imprisonment.
All forfeitures to the King and prosecutor.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every serivener and scriveners, broker and brokers, sollicitor and sollicitors, driver and drivers of bargains for contracts, who shall after the said first day of May, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty two, 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 procuring the loan or forbearing of one 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 forfeit 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 lord the King’s Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to him or them that shall sue for the same in any of his Majesty’s Four courts in Dublin by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in which no essoign, wager of law, or protection, shall be allowed.
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