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Collection of fines.
Fines, &c. if levied under warrants, to be paid over to officer of court.
If paid to gaoler, to be paid over within a certain period to officer of court. Board of superintendence or justices to compare receipts and warrants with the gaol books.
Officer to receive all fines and give receipts.
Officer to pay parties to whom portions of fines have been awarded.
Penalty on any persons but the proper officers or their legal deputies for receiving fines, &c.
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5. The manner in which all such penal sums as aforesaid shall be collected shall be as follows:
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1. In every case where any such sums shall be levied under a warrant, the sub-inspector or the said commissioners or office sergeant, as the case may be, to whom the said warrant shall be addressed, transmitted, or indorsed for execution, as herein-before provided, shall either pay over the amount direct to the said officer of the court from which the said warrant was issued, or shall transmit the same to the said officer through the person to whom the said warrant was addressed in the first instance, according as he shall be directed by the chief or under secretary to the Lord Lieutenant:
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2. In every case where such sums shall be paid to the keeper of any gaol or bridewell, he shall indorse on the warrant of committal the amount and date of payment, and shall within fourteen days, or within such other period as the chief or under secretary shall direct, pay over the amount to the said officer of the court from which the warrant was issued; and the board of superintendence shall at least once in every month in the case of each gaol, and the justices of the petty sessions district shall at least once in every three months in the case of each bridewell, and any other person or persons duly authorized by the said chief or under secretary in that behalf shall at any other times, examine the prison books, and shall require to see the receipt of the officer of the court from which the warrant was issued, in each case in which it shall appear that the person committed was discharged before the expiration of the period for which he was committed, and shall also compare the sum mentioned in such receipt with the amount in the warrant of committal, and shall certify in the said books that such receipt has been produced to him or them, and that such sums correspond, or otherwise, as the case may be:
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3. In every case where any such penal sums shall be paid in court or to the said officer of the court (before the issue of a warrant), or shall be so paid over or transmitted to the said officer of the court (after the issue of a warrant), he shall receive the same, and shall at the time deliver or transmit a receipt for the same in the form (B.a. or b.) to the person by whom the same shall be so paid or transmitted:
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4. The said officer shall out of the sums so received pay to the several parties such portion of the same as shall have been awarded to them by the court, and which shall be claimed by them either in court or at the public office of the said officer, taking from each of such parties a receipt for the same in the form (B. c.):
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And it shall not be lawful for any person, other than the said officers herein-before mentioned respectively, or their lawfully authorized deputies, if any, save the person to whom any warrant shall be delivered for execution, or the keeper of any gaol or bridewell to which the defendant shall be committed, as the case may be, to receive any such penal sum as aforesaid, or any part of the same; and if any other officer or person than the several officers or persons herein-before mentioned respectively shall take or receive any such sum, or any part of same, from the person by whom the same shall be ordered to be paid, he shall, on conviction thereof before any two justices of the county sitting in petty sessions, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding ten pounds.
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