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Sale of forfeited casks.
Application of sale monies ;
and of penalties.
Fees to persons levying distress.
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24. And . . . that whenever the mayor of any city, chief magistrate of any town corporate, or justice of the peace for the county in which there is such place of export or market town as aforesaid (as the case may be) shall declare any cask or casks of butter to be forfeited pursuant to the powers given him in this Act, he shall within fourteen days cause the same to be sold by public auction to the highest bidder; and that the money for which such cask or casks of butter shall be sold shall, after defraying the reasonable expences of such sale by auction, be equally divided; one half thereof to go to the person or persons who shall have seized such cask of butter, and the other half to go to the governors of the workhouse or house of industry of such city, town corporate, or county at large (as the case may happen to be), to be by them applied in aid of the fund of such workhouse or house of industry; and in case there shall not be any such workhouse or house of industry, then that such half shall be given and shall go to the poor of the parish where such offence shall have been committed; and that every penalty to be levied by distress for any offence under this Act, and not herein otherwise disposed, shall be equally divided; one half thereof to go to the party informing against and prosecuting every such offence (and which party is and are hereby declared to be competent witness or competent witnesses in every such case), and the other half to go to the governors of such house of industry or workhouse aforesaid (as the case may be), to be by them applied as aforesaid; and in case of no such house of industry or workhouse, such half to go to the poor of the parish where such offence shall have been committed; and the person to whom any warrant of distress for levying such distress, and who shall actually levy the same, shall for his trouble have and receive the following fees; videlicit, two shillings if the penalty do not exceed forty shillings, one shilling in the pound for every penalty above forty shillings and not exceeding five pounds sterling, and sixpence in the pound for every penalty above five pounds; said fees to be levied on the goods and chattels of the person or persons who shall incur such penalties, in like manner as the penalties themselves are by this Act directed to be levied.
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