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In default of payment of penalty the parties convicted to be sent to prison.
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8. The justices of the peace or sheriffs by whom any person shall be convicted and adjudged to pay any sum of money for any offence against this Act, may adjudge that such person shall pay the same together with costs, either immediately or within such period as the said justices shall think fit; and in default of payment at the time appointed such person shall be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the said justices or sheriffs shall seem meet, for any time not exceeding two calendar months; the commitment to be determinable upon payment of the amount of the penalty and costs.
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