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Penalties going to house of industry to be received and accounted for by weighmaster, deducting 5l. per cent.
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25. And . . . that the weighmaster or weighmasters aforesaid, his or their deputy or deputies, and he and they is and are hereby directed and required to receive all such penalties and forfeitures as by this Act are to go to the governors of any house of industry or workhouse (as the case may be), and shall account quarterly upon oath, or affirmation if a Quaker, with such governors (and which oath or affirmation such governors are hereby empowered and required to administer) for the said penalties and forfeitures received by them respectively, deducting five pounds sterling out of every hundred pounds, and so in proportion, as a recompence for his trouble.
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