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Imprisonment in lieu of pecuniary penalty for offence under 3 & 4 Vict. c. 85. s. 2.
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9. Where under section two of the principal Act a chimney sweeper is convicted of the offence of compelling or knowingly allowing a person under the age of twenty-one years to ascend or descend a chimney or enter a flue for any purpose in that section mentioned, the justices or sheriff before whom he is convicted may, in lieu of the imposition of any such pecuniary penalty as is authorized by that section, adjudge the offender to be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour.
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