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3. The license provided for in the first section shall be issued under 

 the authority of the Governor in Council, and shall be countersigned 

 by the Colonial Secretary. 



4. If any person shall forge or counterfeit or procure to be forged 

 or counterfeited the signature of the Receiver-General to any such 

 license as mentioned in the next preceding section, or shall tender 

 or offer in response to inquiries made under the provisions of this Act, 

 or in evidence in any prosecution under this Act, any such license 

 knowing the signature thereto to be false or counterfeit, such person 

 shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this Act. 



5. Every person guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of 

 this Act shall, for the first offence, be liable to a fine not exceeding 

 1,000 dollars, and in default of payment of any such penalty to 

 imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, and for the 

 second or any subsequent offence to imprisonment for a period not 

 exceeding twelve months. 



6. All offenders against the provisions of this Act may be prose- 

 cuted and convicted, and all fines incurred under the provisions of 

 this Act may be sued for and recovered in a summary manner before 

 a Stipendiary Magistrate by any person who may sue for the same; 

 one half of such fine shall go to the party who may prosecute the 

 offender, and the remainder to the Receiver-General for the use of 

 the Colony; and in the event of the prosecution of an offender who, 

 under this Act, would not be liable to or ordered to pay a fine, then 

 the reasonable expenses of the prosecutor, including a fair amount 

 for his time and labour expended in and about such prosecution, 

 shall, on the certificate of the Magistrate who heard the cause, be 

 paid to the prosecutor by the Receiver-General. 



7. If any person convicted under this Act shall feel himself ag- 

 grieved by such conviction, he may appeal therefrom to the then 

 next sitting of Her Majesty's Supreme Court holden in or nearest to 

 the place where such conviction shall have been had: Provided 

 notice of such appeal, and <>!' the cause and matter thereof, be given 

 to the convicting Magistrate in writing within seven days next alter 

 such conviction; and the party desiring to appeal shall also, within 

 fourteen days alter such notice given, enter into recognizance with 

 two approved sureties before the convicting .Magistrate conditioned 

 for the appearance of the person convicted at such next sitting of 

 the Supreme Coin!, on the first day of such sitting, for the prosecu- 

 tion of the appeal with effect and without delay, to abide the Judg- 

 ment of the Court thereon, and to pay such costs as the Court shall 



award. Any person who shall he convicted and imprisoned by any 



such Magistrate for an offence against this Act, and who shall have 

 given such notice of appeal, and shall have entered into such recog- 

 nizance with approved sureties, may be discharged from prison, in 

 which case the recognizance shall be further conditioned for the 

 surrender of the convicted part} on the first day of such next sitting 

 of the Supreme Court to the Sheriff of the district in which such 

 appeal shall be heard, 



8. No proceeding or conviction by, or order of , any Justice or other 

 officer under this Act hall be quashed or set a side for any informality, 

 provided the lame shall be substantially in accordance with the intent 

 and meaning of I his Act. 



