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Where it appears that Officer has acted collusively, &c. in making Seizures, &c. Treasury may direct his Share to be forfeited.
56 G. 3. c. 104. § 10.
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XIII. ‘And Whereas by virtue of the said recited Act of the Fifty sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, certain Proportions of the Value of Goods and Merchandise seized as forfeited under any Law or Laws for the Protection of the Revenue are directed to be paid to the Officer or Officers as a Reward for seizing the same: And Whereas it is expedient to vest in the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, the Power of withholding such Reward, upon Proof to their Satisfaction that such Officer or Officers shall have acted collusively or negligently in any such Seizure;’ Be it therefore enacted, That upon Proof being made to the Satisfaction of the said Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, or any Three or more of them, that any such Officer or Officers shall have acted collusively or negligently, either in the making such Seizure, or in the Omission or Failure to make such Seizure, it shall be lawful for them to direct that the whole or any part of the Officer or Officers Proportion of such Seizure shall be forfeited, and go and be applied in the same manner as His Majesty’s Share of Seizures is by Law directed to be applied.
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