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APPENDIX. 



Penalties 

 and costs 

 may be 

 levied by 

 distress. 



Applications 

 of penalties. 



On neglect 

 to prosecute 

 any sum- 

 mons, jus- 

 tices may 

 authorize 

 some other 

 person to 

 proceed. 



become liable for anything done before that time in respect of 

 the matters touching which he has been so examined ; but 

 such witness shall not be indemnified under this act unless 

 he receive from such justices or judge a certificate in writing 

 under their hands, stating that such witness has on his ex- 

 amination made a true disclosure touching all things as to 

 which he has been examined ; and if any action, information 

 or indictment be at any time pending in any court against 

 any person so examined in respect of any act of gaming 

 touching which he was so examined, and if any action, in- 

 formation or indictment be at any time pending in any court 

 against any person so examined as a witness in manner be- 

 fore mentioned, for any such matter or thing, such court shall, 

 on the production and proof of such certificate, stay the pro- 

 ceedings in any such action, information or indictment, and 

 may, in its discretion, award to such person such costs as he may 

 have been put to by such action, information or indictment. 



7. 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 dis- 

 tress 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 com- 

 mitted to prison for default of payment of any penalty and 

 costs, then the costs alone may be levied by distress as 

 aforesaid. 



8. One half of any pecuniary penalty which shall be 

 adjudged to be paid under this act shall be paid to the^person 

 laying the information upon which the conviction takes place, 

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

 rate of the parish in which the offence shall have been com- 

 mitted, 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 re- 

 maining 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 

 poor rate or district. 



9. In case any person who shall have laid any information 

 in respect of any offence against this act shall not appear at 

 the time at which the defendant shall have been summoned 

 to appear, or at any time to which the hearing of the sum- 

 mons may have been adjourned, or if such person, in the 

 opinion of any justices having authority to adjudicate with 

 respect to the offence charged in such information as afore- 

 said, shall otherwise have neglected to proceed upon or prose- 



