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Provisions as to appeal to quarter sessions against judgments given by justices of the peace on informations exhibited to them.
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23. If there shall not be twenty days between the time of any judgment being given by any justices of the peace on any information exhibited to them and the next general quarter sessions of the peace, and the party against whom such judgment shall be given shall appeal against the same, then such appeal may be to the quarter sessions next after the expiration of twenty days from the giving of such judgment; and any notice of appeal shall be given by any officer of excise who shall attend and conduct the proceedings on the part of the revenue of excise, notwithstanding such officer may not be the officer named in the information as informing or exhibiting the same; and it shall be lawful for any court of quarter sessions before whom any appeal shall be brought to adjourn the hearing thereof to the next quarter sessions, then to hear and finally to determine the same.
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