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Partyaggrieved by any such practice may apply to a justice of the peace.
Justice may adjudge treble the amount of the monies unlawfully taken to be paid, with costs; which may be levied by distress.
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2. If any person or persons whatsoever shall in any manner levy, take, or receive from any person or persons whatsoever, or retain or take from the produce of any goods sold for the payment of such rent, any other or greater costs and charges than are mentioned and set down in the said schedule, or make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter, or thing mentioned in the said schedule, and not really done, it shall be lawful for the party or parties aggrieved by such practices to apply to any one justice of the peace for the county, city, town, and acting for the division where such distress shall have been made or in any manner proceeded in, for the redress of his, her, or their grievance so occasioned; whereupon such justice shall summon the person or persons complained of to appear before him at a reasonable time to be fixed in such summons; and such justice shall examine into the matter of such complaint by all legal ways and means, and also hear in like manner the defence of the person or persons complained of; and if it shall appear to such justice that the person or persons complained of shall have levied, taken, received, or had other and greater costs and charges than are mentioned or fixed in the schedule hereunto annexed, or made any charge for any matter or thing mentioned in the said schedule, such act, matter, or thing not having been really done, such justice shall order and adjudge treble the amount of the monies so unlawfully taken to be paid by the person or persons so having acted to the party or parties who shall thus have preferred his, her, or their complaint thereof, together with full costs . . .
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