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SALE OF OFFICES ACT 1809 - SECT 4

Persons receiving or paying money for soliciting offices, or for any negociations or pretended negociations relating thereto, guilty of a misdemeanor.

4. And 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, covenant, contract, bond or
assurance, or by any way, means, or device, contract or agree to receive or
have any 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 be made or pretended to be made, or under
any pretence of making or causing or procuring to be made any interest,
solicitation, 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 aforesaid, or under any pretence for using or having
used any interest, solicitation, petition, request, recommendation, or
negociation in or about any such nomination, appointment, deputation 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, deputation, 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, covenant, 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, recommendation or negociation
whatever, made or to be made, that shall in anywise touch, concern, or relate
to any nomination, 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 consent 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, deputation, 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.

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