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Penalties of 100l. under 45 G. 3. c. 121. § 7. may be recovered either in the Exchequer or at Quarter Sessions.
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XXXIX. And be it further enacted, That every such Penalty of One hundred Pounds, by the said recited Act of the Forty-fifth Year aforesaid imposed, may be sued for and prosecuted at any Time within One Year after the Offence shall have been committed, and may be recovered either by Information or otherwise in His Majesty’s Court of Exchequer at Westminster, and levied as any Fine, Penalty, or Forfeiture may be sued for, recovered, or levied under any Act or Acts made for the securing the Revenue of Customs, or by Information before any Two of the Justices of the Peace for the County wherein such Offence or Offences as aforesaid shall or may be committed, or of the County into which any such Offender or Offenders shall be brought; and Two third Parts of every such Penalty shall be to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, and the remaining One-third Part to the Person who shall inform, discover, or sue for the same.
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