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Commissioners or justices may proceed by summons for recovery of penalties.
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99. In all cases in which any penalty or forfeiture is recoverable before justices of the peace under this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any commissioner . . . or any justice, to whom complaint in writing shall be made of any such offence, to summon the party complained against to appear before any two justices; and on such summons the said two justices may hear and determine the matter of such complaint, and on proof of the offence convict the offender, and adjudge him to pay the penalty or forfeiture incurred, and proceed to recover the same.
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