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Officers under Act not to take fees or profits other than their salaries under pain of removal and disqualification to hold office in the Court.
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14. If any person who shall accept any office under this Act shall engage in any other employment whatever whilst he holds such office, or shall receive any sum of money or benefit other than his salary, and what may be allowed or directed to be taken by him under any Act of Parliament or order of the said Court, for any act done or pretended to be done, or any attendance given or pretended to be given, either with or without the consent or direction or pretended consent or direction of any judge of the Court, in relation to or arising out of any proceeding in his office or in any office of or connected with the Court of Chancery, or if such person, having been a solicitor, shall directly or indirectly receive or secure to himself any continuing benefit from any business or firm in which he may have been engaged previously to his appointment to such office, the person so offending may be removed from his office by order of the Lord Chancellor, and if so removed shall be rendered incapable of afterwards holding any office, situation, or employment in the said Court.
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