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Penalty on Persons assaulting Commissioners or their Officers.
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LVIII. And be it enacted, That every Person who shall wilfully obstruct or assault any Commissioner of Public Works, or any Engineer, or other Officer, Servant, or Workman, acting in aid or under the Orders of the said Commissioners, in the Execution of any of the Powers given by this Act, shall forfeit and pay for every such Offence, upon Conviction thereof by the Oaths of One or more credible Witness or Witnesses before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, such Sum not exceeding Five Pounds as such Justice or Justices shall think fit, to be applied in such Manner and for such Purposes as the said Justice or Justices shall direct, or in default of Payment every such Person shall be imprisoned for such Number of Days, not exceeding Fourteen, as the said Justice or Justices shall direct.
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