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Penalty on any deputies or clerks taking any fees, &c. contrary to this Act, 100l.
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5. If any deputy or clerk, or other person whatever, employed in the several offices or places mentioned and specified in any of the tables to this Act annexed, . . . shall ask or demand, or shall have, take, accept, or receive from any suitor, solicitor, or other person whomsoever, save and except only from the principal officer by and under whom any such deputy or clerk or other person shall be immediately employed, any gift, fee, reward, or remuneration, for or by reason or on account or under pretext of any service of their own, or of any person or persons employed by or under them respectively, in any of the offices of the said Court of Chancery; or if any such deputy or clerk or other person shall ask or demand, or shall have, take, receive, or accept any gift, fee, or reward, gratuity, or remuneration, for or by reason or on account or under pretext of the services of their principals or employers, or for or by reason or on account or under pretext of any matter or thing whatever done in and about the business of their respective offices, other than and except only such fees and sums of money as shall from time to time be lawful under the provisions of this Act; every deputy, clerk, or other person so offending, shall, for every such offence, forfeit and lose the sum of one hundred pounds.
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