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convicted, and immediately thereupon every such magistrate 

 or magistrates is and are hereby authorized, empowered, and 

 required to grant his or their warrant or warrants in due form 

 of law, under his or their hand or hands, and thereby commit 

 every such offender to the common gaol or house of cor- 

 rection for the shire, stewartry, burgh, or place for which 

 such magistrate or magistrates as aforesaid shall act for such 

 time or times as hereinafter mentioned, unless such penalty 

 and penalties and costs shall respectively be sooner paid, or 

 otherwise such magistrate or magistrates shall and may grant 

 his or their warrant or warrants, under his or their hand or 

 hands, to levy and recover such penalty or penalties and costs 

 by distress and sale of the offender's goods and effects; and 

 all penalties and forfeitures which shall be so paid or levied 

 as aforesaid shall, from time to time, be paid, applied, and 

 disposed of as follows ; that is to say, one half to the in- 

 former or informers, and the other half, after defraying all 

 costs, charges, and expences attending the prosecution and the 

 levying and recovering of the penalty, to the collector or col- 

 lectors of the assessment hereinbefore imposed, and the same 

 shall be applied and disposed of for and towards the same 

 purposes as the said assessments are applicable ; and the 

 overplus of the money levied remaining (if any there be) after 

 any penalty or penalties, and all costs, charges, and ex- 

 pences attending the levying and recovering thereof, are 

 deducted, which costs, charges, and expences shall always be 

 taxed, settled, and ascertained by and before the magistrate 

 or magistrates by or before whom any such offender shall be 

 convicted, shall on demand be returned to the owner or 

 owners of the goods and effects so distrained ; and in case 

 sufficient distress or distresses shall not be found, or such 

 penalty or penalties and costs shall not be immediately paid, 

 then it shall be lawful for any such magistrate or magistrates, 

 and he and they is and are hereby respectively anthorized, 

 empowered, and required, for the first offence, to commit 

 every such offender or offenders to such gaol or house of 

 correction as aforesaid, for any time not exceeding two 



