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Penalty on persons taking any pledge or pawn for money owing for spirits.
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67. . . . and in case any person shall take or receive any pawn or pledge from any person by way of security for the payment of any sum or sums of money owing by such person for spirituous liquors, every such person so offending and being convicted thereof before any magistrate or justice of the peace shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings British currency for every pawn or pledge so taken in or received by him or them, and the person or persons to whom any such pawn or pledge shall belong shall have the same remedy for recovering such pawn or pledge, or the value thereof, as if it had not been given as a pledge.
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