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Accounts of fines.
Chief or under secretary may make general regulations as to accounts.
Declaration that accounts are correct.
Mode of enforcing payment of balances or sums.
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6. The manner in which all such penal sums as aforesaid shall be accounted for shall be as follows:
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1. It shall be lawful for the said chief or under secretary to make such general regulations as shall seem expedient for carrying into effect the provisions of this Act, for the better collection of all said sums, and the regular accounting for the same by all persons into whose hands the same shall come; and such persons shall keep and render account of said sums in such forms, and shall pay over said sums, and transmit for examination said warrant or receipt, at such times and in such manner as shall be directed by such general regulations, or as shall be at any time specially required by the said chief or under secretary; and it shall also be lawful for the said chief or under secretary to make such general regulations as shall seem expedient, for the examination, checking, or countersigning of any of such accounts by any of the sub-inspectors, inspectors, or other members of the constabulary or police forces, as the case may be:
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2. And to every such account shall be annexed a declaration in writing under the hand of the said officer, to be made before a justice, affirming the truth and accuracy of such account; and every such officer who shall make any such declaration, knowing the said account to be false in any particular, and being thereof convicted, shall, in addition to any penalty to which he may be liable under the provisions of this Act herein-after contained, be also liable to the penalties of wilful and corrupt perjury:
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And if default shall at any time be made by any such officer or person in paying over any balance on such accounts, or any of such penal sums received by him, at such times as the said such penal sums received by him, at such times as the said’ chief or under secretary shall direct, it shall be lawful for the said chief or under secretary to certify such default to any two justices of the county, who shall thereupon issue the proper warrant for the levy of such balance or sums as shall have been so certified to be due by such officer or person, by distress and sale of his goods and chattels.
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