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Justices may mitigate punishment.
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4. Provided always, that it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace, by or before whom any person shall in pursuance of this Act be convicted of any unlawful combination or confederacy, and such justices are hereby authorized and empowered (if they shall see cause so to do), to mitigate and lessen the punishment herein-before directed to be inflicted upon any offender against this Act so convicted as aforesaid, so as such punishment be not thereby reduced to less than one third of the punishment hereby directed to be inflicted as aforesaid, whether such punishment shall be by imprisonment or fine.
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