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If penalty not paid, offender may be committed.
Application of penalty.
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39. In every case of the adjudication of a pecuniary penalty or amends under this Act, and non-payment thereof, it shall be lawful for the justice to commit the offender to any gaol or house of correction within his jurisdiction for a term not more than one calendar month where the sum to be paid should not exceed five pounds, the imprisonment to cease on payment of the sum due and the costs for the recovery thereof; and so much of every such pecuniary penalty as shall not be awarded to the informer, or other persons who have contributed to the conviction, shall be paid to the receiver of the Dublin police, for the purposes of this Act.
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