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Penalty on witnesses not attending, &c. 40s., to be levied by distress, &c.
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26. If any person or persons shall be summoned as a witness or witnesses to give evidence before any divisional justice or justices of the police district of Dublin metropolis, touching any offence or other matter or thing to be determined under the said recited Act of the forty-eighth year of his late Majesty's reign, or this Act, either on the part of the prosecutor or of the person or persons accused, and shall neglect or refuse to appear at the time and place to be for that purpose appointed, without a reasonable excuse for such neglect or refusal, to be allowed of by such justice or justices, or appearing shall refuse to be examined on oath and to give evidence before such justice or justices before whom the prosecution or proceeding shall be depending, every such person so offending shall, upon due proof thereof before such justice or justices, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings, at the discretion of such justice or justices; the same, in default of payment on demand, to be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, and when levied to be paid over to the receiver of the public offices; and in default of a sufficient distress, it shall be lawful for such justice or justices to commit the offender to the house of correction for any space of time not exceeding fourteen days, or until such penalty shall be sooner paid.
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