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Penalty for neglecting to attend.
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228. If any person so summoned to testify as aforesaid shall refuse or neglect to appear at the time and place appointed in such summons by the justice issuing the same, and no just excuse shall be offered for such neglect or refusal, then, after due proof of the service of such summons, or if such person having appeared in obedience to such summons shall refuse to take oath, or, if a person having legal power to make affirmation, refuse to affirm, or shall refuse to give evidence or answer to the best of his knowledge and belief any legal question required of him, he shall for every such default or offence forfeit such sum not exceeding twenty pounds as the justice shall see fit.
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