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Railway companies to be liable to penalties in case they shall provide trains for prize fights.
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21. Any railway company that shall knowingly let for hire or otherwise provide any special train for the purpose of conveying parties to or to be present at any prize fight, or who shall stop any ordinary train to convenience or accommodate any parties attending a prize fight at any place not an ordinary station on their line, shall be liable to a penalty, to be recovered in a summary way before two justices of the county in which such prize fight shall be held or shall be attempted to be held, of such sum not exceeding five hundred pounds, and not less than two hundred pounds, as such justices shall determine, one half of such penalty to be paid to the party at whose suit the summons shall be issued, and the other half to be paid to the treasurer of the county in which such prize fight shall be held or shall be attempted to be held, in aid of the county rate; and service of the summons under which the penalty is sought to be enforced on the secretary of the company at his office ten days before the day of hearing shall be sufficient to give the justices before whom the case shall come jurisdiction to hear and determine the case.
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