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APPENDIX. 



Penalties and 

 costs may be 

 levied by 

 distress. 



Application of 

 penalties. 



On neglect to 

 prosecute 

 any sum- 

 mons, jiis- 

 tices may 

 authorize 

 some other 

 person to 

 proceed. 



Justices may 

 authorize 

 search of 

 suspected 

 houses. 



costs, or in the first instance if to siicli justices it shall seem, 

 fit, may he committed to the common gaol or house of correc- 

 tion, with or without hard labour, for any time not exceeding 

 Two calendar months. 



8. If any person convicted under this act on information 

 before justices shall be adjudged to pay any penalty, or any 

 costs and charges attending the conviction, and shall fail to 

 pay such penalty or costs, the same may be levied by distress 

 and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender by warrant 

 under the hand and seal of one of the convicting justices : 

 Provided always, that if any person shall be committed to 

 prison for default of payment of any penalty and costs, then 

 the costs alone may be levied by distress as aforesaid. 



9. One half of every pecuniary penalty which shall be ad- 

 judged to be paid under this act shall be paid to the informer, 

 and the remaining half shall be applied in aid of the poor rate 

 of the parish in which the offence shall have been committed, 

 and shall be paid for that purpose to the overseer or other 

 person authorized to receive poor rates in such parish, or if 

 the place wherein the offence shall have been committed shall 

 be extra-parochial, then the justices by whom such penalty 

 shall be adjudged to be paid shall direct such remaining half 

 thereof to be applied in aid of the poor rate of such extra- 

 parochial place, or if there shall not be any poor rate therein, 

 in aid of the poor rate of any adjoining parish or district. 



10. In case any person who shall have laid any complaint 

 or information in respect of any oifenee against this act shall 

 not appear at the time at which the defendant may have been 

 summoned to appear, or at any time to which the hearing of 

 the summons may have been adjourned, or, in the opinion of 

 any justices having authority to adjudicate with resj)ect to the 

 ofience charged in such information or complaint as aforesaid, 

 shall otherwise have neglected to proceed upon or prosecute 

 such information or complaint with due diligence, it shall be 

 lawful for such justices to authorize any other person to pro- 

 ceed on such summons instead of the person to whom the 

 same may have been granted, or if such justices think fit to 

 dismiss the summons already granted, and authorize any per- 

 son to take out a fresh summons in respect of the offence 

 charged in such information or complaint, in like manner as 

 if the previous summons had not been granted. 



11. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon 

 complaint made before him on oath that there is reason to 

 suspect any house, office, room, or place to be kept or used 

 as a betting house or office, contrary to this act, to give au- 

 thority by special warrant under his hand, when in his discre- 

 tion he shall think fit, to any constable or police officer, to 

 enter, with such assistance as may be found necessary, into 

 such house, office, room, or place, and, if necessary, to use 



