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bleton aforesaid, or for any plate, prize, sum of 

 money or other thing of less value than £50, every 

 such person or persons shall forfeit and lose the 

 sum of £200. 



6. And be it further enacted by the authority 

 aforesaid, that all penalties and forfeitures incurred 

 by any person or persons for any offence against 

 this act, shall be sued for and recovered by any 

 bill, plaint or information in any of his Majesty's 

 Courts of Record at Westminster, or at the assizes, 

 and shall be disposed of, one moiety thereof to the 

 use of such person or persons as shall so sue for 

 the same, and the other moiety to the use of the 

 poor of such parish where the offence shall be 

 committed, except such one moiety of such penal- 

 ties and forfeitures as shall be incurred by, and 

 recorded of any person or persons within the 

 county of Somerset ; which said one moiety shall 

 go and be applied to and for the use and benefit of 

 the poor persons admitted into the hospital or in- 

 firmary lately erected in the city of Bath, for the 

 benefit of poor persons resorting to the said city 

 for benefit of the mineral waters there. 



7. And be it further enacted, by the authority 

 aforesaid, that from and after the 24th dav of June, 

 1 740, all and every sum or sums of money to be 

 paid for entering of any horse, mare, or gelding, 

 to start or run for any plate, prize, or sum of mo- 

 ney or other thing, shall go and be paid to 



