If any county officer or his deputy shall unlawfully purchase or become interested in any certificate or claim of any kind payable out of the county treasury or in any witness certificate issued in a civil case, the person selling any such claim or certificate may recover the face value thereof of such officer on his official bond; and he shall not be required to account for what he received when he sold.Codes, 1880, §§ 1825, 2759; 1892, § 3068; 1906, § 3476; Hemingway's 1917, § 2814; 1930, § 2904; 1942, § 4050.
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