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Application of forfeitures and penalties on summary convictions.
Proviso where several persons join in commission of same offence.
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106. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited on any summary conviction for the value of any property stolen or taken, or for the amount of any injury done, (such value or amount to be assessed in each case by the convicting justice,) shall be paid by the party aggrieved, except where he is unknown, and in that case such sum shall be applied in the same manner as a penalty; and every sum which shall be imposed as a penalty by any justice of the peace, whether in addition to such value or amount, or otherwise, shall be paid and applied in the same manner as other penalties recoverable before the justices of the peace are to be paid and applied in eases where the statute imposing the same contains no direction for the payment thereof to any person: Provided, that where several persons shall join in the commission of the same offence, and shall, upon conviction thereof, each be adjudged to forfeit a sum equivalent to the value of the property or to the amount of the injury, in every such case no further sum shall be paid to the party aggrieved than such value or amount; and the remaining sum or sums forfeited shall be applied in the same manner as any penalty imposed by a justice of the peace is herein-before directed to be applied.
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