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Penalty on taking any fee for appointment of gaolers, &c. 500l.
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63. No person or persons, body or bodies corporate or politic shall by themselves, or any other person in trust for them, give, take, or receive, or offer to give, take, or receive, any fee, money, or gratuity, or other valuable or beneficial consideration whatsoever, or any promise thereof, for or in respect of the appointment, nomination, or recommendation of any person or persons whatsoever to be keeper of any prison in Ireland, or to hold any office under such keeper, or knowingly appoint, or cause to be appointed, any person or persons to such office, for or in respect of any fee, money, gratuity, or other valuable consideration whatever, given or promised to any person or persons whatsoever, for or in respect of such appointment, or to the obtaining of such office; and each and every person so offending shall forfeit the sum or penalty of five hundred pounds, together with double the sum so given as aforesaid; one moiety of such-forfeiture to be paid to the King, and the other moiety to the informer who shall by bill, plaint, or information, in any of his Majesty’s superior courts of record in Dublin, first sue for the same.
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