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Recovery and application of penalties imposed by this Act.
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69. Any penalty imposed by this Act, amounting to jess than the sum of fifty pounds, shall and may be recovered in a summary way, on complaint or motion to the court to which the offence where such penalty shall be incurred shall relate; and it shall be lawful for such court, after receiving such evidence as they shall think proper, to make an order for the payment of such penalty; and any penalty imposed by this Act, which shall amount to and not exceed the sum of fifty pounds, shall and may be recovered by any party who will sue for the same, by civil bill before the chairman of the sessions at Kilmainham; and all penalties exceeding the sum of fifty pounds shall and may be recovered by any party who shall sue for the same, by action or information, in any of the three courts of common law aforesaid, and one moiety of all penalties imposed by this Act shall be to the use of his Majesty, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same.
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