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Persons prosecuted before justices or indicted under this Act, not liable to other prosecution.
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5. Provided also, that any person who shall be prosecuted before any justices of the peace in a summary way for any offence against this Act, and shall be convicted or acquitted by such justices, shall not afterwards be prosecuted or be liable to be prosecuted by indictment or otherwise for the same offence; and so in like manner any person who shall be convicted or acquitted upon any indictment for any offence against this Act, shall not afterwards be prosecuted or be liable to be prosecuted before any justices of the peace in a summary way for the same offence.
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