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Penalty on forging licences.
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75. And . . . that if any person shall forge or counterfeit or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited any licence of the said divisional justices or superintendent magistrate or of any of them, or shall hawk about, sell or expose to sale any goods, wares, or merchandizes before mentioned, with any such forged or counterfeited licence, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, every such person on being convicted thereof shall forfeit the sum of fifty pounds; and for want of sufficient goods to satisfy the said penalty, such offender shall be committed to the common gaol or house of correction for any time not exceeding twelve, or less than six months, at the discretion of the justice or justices before whom such offender shall be so convicted.
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