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Payment of compensation for wilful damage by tenants.
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66. Every person who shall occupy or shall have occupied any house or lodging within the police district as tenant thereof, and who shall wilfully or maliciously do any damage to the premises, or to any furniture thereof, not being the property of such tenant or occupier, shall, upon complaint made to one of the said divisional justices within one calendar month next after the commission of the offence, or the end of the tenantry or occupation, forfeit and pay such sum of money as shall appear to the justice to be a reasonable compensation for the damage done, not more than the sum of fifteen pounds, to be paid to the landlord or party aggrieved.
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