on pain of forfeiture and incapacity.

Such bargains and sales, &c. void.

To what offices this Act shall

not extend.

Acts done by officers removeable shall be valid.

of them, any such person or persons shall so make any Bargain or Sale, or take or receive any Sum of Money, Fee, Reward, or Profit, or any Promise, Covenant, or Assurance to have or receive any Fee, Reward, Money, or Profit, but also that all and every such person or persons that shall give or pay any Sum of Money, Reward, or Fee, or shall make any Promise, Agreement, Bond, or Assurance for any of the said Offices, or for the Deputation or Deputations of any of the said Office or Offices, or any part of any of them, shall immediately by and upon the same Fee, Money, or Reward given or paid, or upon any such Promise, Covenant, Bond, or Agreement had or made for any Fee, Sum of Money, or Reward, to be paid as is aforesaid, be adjudged a disabled person in the Law to all intents and purposes, to have, occupy, or enjoy the said Office or Offices, Deputation or Deputations, or any part of any of them, for the which such person or persons shall so give or pay any Sum of Money, Fee, or Reward, or make any Promise, Covenant, Bond, or other Assurance to give or pay any Sum of Money, Fee, or Reward. s. 2.

All and every such Bargains, Sales, Promises, Bonds, Agreements, Covenants, and Assurances, as be before specified, shall be void to and against him and them by whom any such Bargain, Sale, Bond, Promise, Covenant, or Assurance shall be had or made. s. 3.

Provided always, that this Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not in anywise extend to any Office or Offices, whereof any person or persons is or shall be seised of any Estate of Inheritance, nor to any Office of Parkership, or of the keeping of any Park, House, Manor, Garden, Chase, or Forest, or to any of them; any thing in this Act heretofore mentioned to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding. s. 4.

Provided also, that if any person or persons do hereafter offend in any thing contrary to the tenor and effect of this Act, yet that notwithstanding all Judgments given, and all other Act and Acts executed or done by any such person or persons so offending, by authority or colour of the Office or Deputation which ought to be forfeited or not occupied or not enjoyed by the person so offending as is aforesaid, after the said Offence so by such person committed or done, and before such person so offending for the same Offence be removed from the exercise, administration, and occupation of the said Office or Deputation, shall be and remain good and sufficient in Law, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, in such like manner and form as the

same should or ought to have remained and been if this Act had never been had or made. 5, 6 Ed. 6. c. 16. s. 5.

extend to offices

Provided always, that this Act, or any thing therein contained, This Act not to shall not in anywise extend or be prejudicial or hurtful to any given by the of the Chief Justices of the King's Courts, commonly called Chief Justices or the King's Bench or Common Place, or to any of the Justices Judges of Assise. of Assise that now be or hereafter shall be, but that they and every of them may do in every behalf touching or concerning any Office or Offices to be given or granted by them, or any of them, as they or any of them might have done before the making of this Act; any thing above mentioned to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding. s. 7.

The Statute 49 G. 3. c. 126. "for the further Prevention of the Sale and Brokerage of Offices," recites the foregoing Statute of Ed. 6. and then declares and enacts, that from and after the Provisions of passing of this Act, the said Act and all the Provisions therein 5 & 6 Ed. 6. c. 16. extended contained shall extend and be construed to extend to Scotland to other offices. and Ireland, and to all Offices in the Gift of the Crown or of any Office appointed by the Crown, and all Commissions Civil, Naval or Military, and to all Places and Employments, and to all Deputations to any such Offices, Commissions, Places, or Employments in the respective Departments or Offices, or under the Appointment or Superintendance and Control of the Lord High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, the Lords Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral, the Master General and principal Officers of His Majesty's Ordnance, the Commander in Chief, the Secretary at War, the Paymaster General of His Majesty's Forces, the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, the Commissioners of the Excise, the Treasurer of the Navy, the Commissioners of the Navy, the Commissioners for Victualling, the Commissioners of Transports, the Commissary General, the Storekeeper General, and also the principal Officers of any other public Department or Office of His Majesty's Government in any Part of the United Kingdom, or in any of His Majesty's Dominions, Colonies, or Plantations which now belong or may hereafter belong to His Majesty, and also to all Offices, Commissions, Places and Employments belonging to or under the Appointment or Control of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, in as full and ample a Manner as if the Provisions of the said Act were repeated as to all such Offices, Commissions, Places and Employments, and made Part of this Act; and the said Act and this Act, and

When right of appointment forfeited, to go to His Majesty.

Persons buying or selling offices, or receiving or

rewards for of

fices, guilty of a misdemeanor.

all the Clauses and Provisions therein respectively contained, shall be construed as one Act, as if the same had been herein repeated and re-enacted.

Provided always, that where the Right, Estate, or Interest of any Person or Persons shall be forfeited under any of the Provisions of the said Act or this Act, the Right of such Appointment shall immediately vest in and belong to his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors. 49 G. 3. c. 126. s. 2.

From and after the passing of this Act, if any Person or Persons shall sell or bargain for the Sale of, or receive, have, or paying money or take any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward, or Profit, directly or indirectly, or any Promise, Agreement, Covenant, Contract, Bond, or Assurance, or shall by any Way, Device, or Means, contract or agree to receive or have any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward or Profit, directly or indirectly, and also if any Person or Persons shall purchase or bargain for the Purchase of, or give or pay any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward, or Profit, or make or enter into any Promise, Agreement, Covenant, Contract, Bond or Assurance to give or pay any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward or Profit, or shall by any Way, Means, or Device, contract or agree to give or pay any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward or Profit, directly or indirectly, for any Office, Commission, Place or Employment specified or described in the said recited Act or this Act, or within the true Intent or Meaning of the said Act or this Act, or for any Deputation thereto, or for any Part, Parcel, or Participation of the Profits thereof, or for any Appointment or Nomination thereto or Resignation thereof, or for the Consent or Consents or Voice or Voices of any Person or Persons to any such Appointment, Nomination or Resignation, then and in every such case, every such Person, and also every Person who shall wilfully and knowingly aid, abet or assist such Person therein, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a Misdemeanor.

Persons receiving

or paying money for soliciting offices, and any

negociations or

s. 3.

From and after the passing of this Act, if any Person or Persons shall receive, have, or take any Money, Fee, Reward, or Profit, directly or indirectly, or take any Promise, Agreement, pretended nego- Covenant, Contract, Bond, or Assurance, or by any Way, Means, or Device, contract or agree to receive or have any thereto, guilty of a misdemeanor. Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward or Profit, directly or indirectly, for any Interest, Solicitation, Petition, Request, Recommendation, or Negociation whatever, made or to

ciations relating

be made, or pretended to be made, or under any Pretence of
making or causing or procuring to be made any Interest, Solici-
tation, Petition, Request, Recommendation or Negociation, in
or about or in anywise touching, concerning, or relating to any
Nomination, Appointment, or Deputation to or Resignation of
any such Office, Commission, Place or Employment as afore-
said, or under any Pretence for using or having used any Inte-
rest, Solicitation, Petition, Request, Recommendation or Nego-
ciation, in or about any such Nomination, Appointment, Depu-
tation or Resignation, or for the obtaining or having obtained
the Consent or Consents or Voice or Voices of any Person or
Persons as aforesaid to such Nomination, Appointment, Depu-
tation, or Resignation; and also if any Person or Persons shall
give or pay or cause or procure to be given or paid any Money,
Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward or Profit, or make or
cause or procure to be made any Promise, Agreement, Cove-
nant, Contract, Bond or Assurance, or by any Way, Means,
or Device, contract or agree or give or pay, or cause or procure
to be given or paid, any Money, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money,
Reward, or Profit, for any Solicitation, Petition, Request, Re-
commendation or Negociation whatever, made or to be made,
that shall in anywise touch, concern, or relate to any Nomina-
tion, Appointment, or Deputation to or Resignation of any such
Office, Commission, Place, or Employment as aforesaid, or for
the obtaining or having obtained, directly or indirectly, the Con-
sent or Consents or Voice or Voices of any Person or Persons
as aforesaid to any such Nomination, Appointment, Deputation,
or Resignation; and also if any Person or Persons shall, for or
in expectation of Gain, Fee, Gratuity, Loan of Money, Reward,
or Profit, solicit, recommend, or negociate in any Manner for
any Person or Persons in any Matter that shall in anywise touch,
concern, or relate to any such Nomination, Appointment, Depu-
tation or Resignation aforesaid, or for the obtaining, directly or
indirectly, the Consent or Consents or Voice or Voices of any
Person or Persons to any such Nomination, Appointment, or
Deputation or Resignation aforesaid, then and in every such
case every such Person, and also every Person who shall wilfully
and knowingly aid, abet, or assist such Person therein, shall be
deemed and adjudged guilty of a Misdemeanor. 49 G. 3. c. 126. s. 4.
And whereas on the pretence of negociating or soliciting the
Sale, Transfer, or Appointment of any Office or Offices which
under the exception of this Act or otherwise it may be lawful to
sell, Offices for negociating the same, and Advertisements may demeanor.

or advertising

Persons opening houses for transacting business

relating to the

sale of offices, guilty of a mis

Inflicting a penalty on persons advertising or publishing the names of brokers or agents.

Act not to extend to purchase or sale of commissions for the regulated prices,

or authorized regimental agents acting in such cases according to regulation, without fee or reward.

be published, by means and under the colour of which illegal
Transactions intended to be prohibited by this Act may be car-
ried on; be it therefore further enacted, that from and after the
passing of this Act, if any person or persons shall open or keep
any House, Room, Office, or Place for the soliciting, transact-
ing, or negociating in any manner whatever any business relating
to Vacancies in, or the Sale or Purchase of, or Appointment,
Nomination, or Deputation to, or Resignation, Transfer, or Ex-
change of
any Offices, Commissions, Places, or Employments
whatever in or under any Public Department, then and in every
such case every such person, and also every person who shall wil-
fully and knowingly aid, abet, or assist therein, shall be deemed
and adjudged guilty of a Misdemeanor. 49 G. 3. e. 126. s. 5.

If any person or persons shall advertise or publish, or cause or procure to be advertised or in any manner published, any House, Room, Office, or Place to have been or to be opened, set up, or kept for any of the purposes aforesaid, or advertise or publish, or cause or procure to be advertised or published, the Name or Names of any person or persons as Broker or Brokers, Agent or Agents, Solicitor or Solicitors for any of the purposes aforesaid, or print or cause or procure or permit or suffer to be printed or advertised any Advertisement or Advertisements, Proposal or Proposals for any of the purposes aforesaid, then and in such case such person or persons shall forfeit for every such Offence the Sum of Fifty Pounds, to be sued for, levied, or recovered in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, as to all Offences committed in England, or at Dublin as to Offences committed in Ireland, or in His Majesty's Courts in Scotland as to Offences committed in Scotland respectively; and the whole of every such Penalty shall go to the person who shall sue for the same, with full Costs of Suit. s. 6.

Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to any Purchases, Sales, or Exchanges of any Commissions or Appointments in the honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, or in his Majesty's Yeoman Guard, or in the Marshalsea, and the Court of the King of the Palace of the King at Westminster, or to extend to any Purchases, Sales, or Exchanges of any Commissions in his Majesty's Forces for such Prices as shall be regulated and fixed by any Regulation made or to be made by his Majesty in that behalf, or to any act or thing done in relation thereto by any Agents, provided that such Agents shall be Agents of Regiments authorized by the Commander in Chief of his Majesty's