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Penalties how to be recovered and applied.
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13. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed by this Act, or by the said recited Act of the fifty-sixth year of his present Majesty, shall be sued for, recovered, levied, or mitigated by such ways, means, or methods (except as herein specially altered) as any fine, penalty, or forfeiture may be sued for, recovered, levied, or mitigated by any law or laws now in force, or by action of debt, bill, plaint, or information in any of his Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, or in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland respectively; and one moiety of every such fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall be to his Majesty, and the other moiety to him or them who shall inform, discover, or sue for the same.
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