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Justices not to take money for affidavits.
False swearing, &c. punishable as perjury.
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172. It shall not be lawful for any justice of the peace or any other person to demand or take any sum of money or any reward for swearing any affidavit to be made by virtue of this Act; and if any person shall wilfully swear or affirm or declare falsely in any oath or affirmation or declaration made or taken by authority or under any of the provisions of this Act, every such person, being thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and incur the pains and penalties in such case by law provided; and it shall and may be lawful for any grand jury, without any previous application to presentment sessions, to make such presentments for defraying the prosecution of such delinquent as to them may seem fitting and expedient.
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