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Penalty for drawing and issuing, &c.
Bills purporting to be drawn in a Set, and not drawing the whole Set.
Penalty on taking or receiving such Bills.
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VI. If any Person shall within the United Kingdom draw and issue any Bill of Exchange payable out of the United Kingdom purporting to be drawn in a Set, and shall not draw and issue on Paper duly stamped as required by Law the whole Number of Bills which such Bill purports the Set to consist of, or if any Person shall within the United Kingdom transfer or negotiate any such Bill of Exchange as aforesaid purporting to be drawn in a Set, and shall not at the same Time transfer or deliver on Paper duly stamped as aforesaid the whole Number of Bills which such Bill purports the Set to consist of, every such Person so offending in any of such Cases shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds; and if any Person shall take or receive in the United Kingdom any such Bill as aforesaid, either in Payment or as a Security or by Purchase or otherwise, without having transferred or delivered to him duly stamped as aforesaid the whole Number of Bills which such Bill purports the Set to consist of, he shall not be entitled to recover on any such Bill, or to make the same available for any Purpose whatever.
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