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Penalty for committing Frauds in the Use of adhesive Stamps.
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V. If any Person shall fraudulently get off or remove, or cause or procure to be gotten off or removed, from any Paper whereon any Receipt or any Draft or Order shall be written, any adhesive Stamp, or if any Person shall affix or use any such Stamp which shall have been gotten off or removed from any Paper whereon any Receipt or any Draft or Order shall have been written, to or for any Receipt, Draft, or Order, or any Paper whereon any such Receipt, Draft, or Order shall be or be intended to be written; or if any Person shall do or practise or be concerned in any fraudulent Act, Contrivance, or Device whatever, not specially provided for by this or some other Act of Parliament, with Intent or Design to defraud Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, of any Duty by this Act granted upon Receipts or upon Drafts or Orders, every Person so offending in any of the said several Cases shall forfeit the Sum of Twenty Pounds.
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