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Damaging the toll-gates or toll-house, &c. or obstructing the collectors, penalty 20).
if not paid, the offender to be imprisoned.
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XXVIII. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously destroy, break, pull down, or damage any gate or gates, toll-house or toll-houses, erected by virtue of this act, or shall prevent or obstruct the erection of any such gate or gates, or any such toll-house or toll-houses, or shall obstruct any collector, or any other person or persons whatsoever employed for that purpose by the said commissioners, or their successors, or any five or more of them, in the performance and excution thereof, each and every person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted by the oath of one or more credible witness or witnesses before the mayor of said city, or one or more justice or justices of the peace of the county of the said city, shall for every offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of every such offender or offenders, by warrant under the hand and seal of the said mayor or justice, or under the hands and seals of the said justice or justices before whom such conviction shall be made; and in case the person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall have no goods or chattels where-out the same can be so levied, it shall and may be lawful to and for the said mayor, justice or justices, by warrant under his or their hand and seal, or their hands and seals, to commit such offender or offenders to the common gaol of the county of the said city of Cork, for any space of time not exceeding three calender months, nor less than three calendar months from the day of such commitment.
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