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Amends may be awarded for frivolous informations.
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60. [Recital.] In every case in which any information or complaint of any offence shall be laid or made before any of the said divisional justices, and shall not be further prosecuted, or which, if further prosecuted, it shall appear to the justice by whom the case shall be heard that there was no sufficient ground for making the charge, the justice shall have power to award such amends, not more than the sum of five pounds, to be paid by the informer to the party informed or complained against, for his loss of time and expences in the matter, as to the justice shall seem meet.
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