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Penalty on sheriff, bailiff, &c. receiving other than the fees allowed.
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17. Any sheriff or under sheriff, or any bailiff empowered to execute a decree, or any assistant of such sheriff, under sheriff, or bailiff, or any keeper, who shall demand or receive from any person, on or in respect of the execution of such decree, any money or gratuity other than the poundage fees legally payable on the execution thereof as in this Act mentioned, and the keeper's fees, in case of a seizure of goods thereunder, as specified in Part II. of schedule (B.) to this Act annexed, or who shall knowingly permit or suffer any one on his behalf to receive the same, shall be liable to pay a sum not exceeding twenty pounds to any person who may sue for the same by civil bill.
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