Section VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that if any Agent in intrusted as aforesaid shall, contrary to o

VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, that if any Agent in intrusted as aforesaid shall, contrary to or without the authority of his principal in that behalf, for his own benefit and in violation of good faith, make any consignment, deposit, transfer, or delivery of any Goods or Documents of Title so intrusted to him as aforesaid, as and by way of a Pledge, Lien, or Security; or shall, contrary to or without such authority, for his own benefit and in violation of good faith, accept any Advance on the faith of any contract or agreement to consign, deposit, transfer, or deliver such Goods or Documents of Title as aforesaid; every such Agent shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to transportation for any term not exceeding fourteen years, nor less than seven years, or to suffer such other punishment by fine or imprisonment, or by both, as the Court shall award; and every Clerk or other person who shall knowingly and wilfully act and assist in making any such consignment, deposit, transfer, or delivery, or in accepting or procuring such Advance as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to any of the punishments which the Court shall award, as herein before last mentioned: Provided nevertheless, that no such Agent shall be liable to any prosecution for consigning, depositing, transferring, or delivering any such Goods or Documents of Title, in case the same shall not be made a security for or subject to the payment of any greater sum of money than the amount which at the time of such consignment, deposit, transfer or delivery was justly due and owing to such Agent from his principal, together with the amount of any Bills of Exchange drawn by or on account of such principal, and accepted by such Agent. Provided also, that the conviction of any such Agent so convicted as aforesaid shall shall not be received in evidence in any action at Law or Suit in Equity against him, and no Agent intrusted as aforesaid shall be liable to be convicted by any evidence whatsoever in respect of any act done by him, if he shall, at any time previously to his being indicted for such offence have disclosed such act, on oath, in consequence of any compulsory process of any Court of Law or Equity in any action, suit, or proceeding which shall have been bona fide instituted by any party agrieved, or if he shall have disclosed the same in any examination or deposition before any commissioner of Bankrupt or of any Insolvent Court.