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Punishment of persons neglecting to maintain their wives or children.
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2. Every person who shall desert or wilfully neglect to maintain his wife or any child whom he may be liable to maintain, so that such wife or child shall become destitute and be relieved in or out of the workhouse of any union in Ireland, shall on conviction thereof before any justice of the peace be committed to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months.
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