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SALE OF OFFICES ACT 1809 - SECT 5

Persons opening or advertising houses for transacting business relating to the sale of offices, guilty of a misdemeanor.

5. 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 be published by means and under the colour of
which illegal transactions intended to be prohibited by this Act may be
carried on: 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,
transacting, 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 exchange of any offices,
commissions, places, or employments whatever in or under any publick
department, then and in every such case every such person, and also every
person who shall wilfully and knowingly aid, abet, or assist therein, shall be
deemed and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor.

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