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Application of fines.
Appropriation of fines and penalties.
Saving as to fines imposed at divisional police offices of Dublin Metropolis or by justices in a corporate town.
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13. In every case where the Act under which any penal sum shall be ordered to be paid as a penalty for an offence (and no sum shall be awarded to the complainant as compensation for damage), it shall be lawful for the court to award any sum not exceeding one third of such penalty to the prosecutor or informer; and the remainder of such penalty and all other penalties shall be awarded to the Crown, any Act or Acts to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the appropriation or application of any fine or penalty imposed at any of the divisional police offices of Dublin Metropolis or by the justices in any corporate town, and payable to any borough fund; but the same shall continue to be appropriated and applied as is now by law authorized, and shall be paid over to the same purposes from time to time in such manner and at such times as the chief or under secretary to the Lord Lieutenant shall direct.
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