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Application of Penalties.
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IX. One Half of every pecuniary Penalty which shall be adjudged to be paid under this Act shall be paid to the Informer, and the remaining Half shall be applied in aid of the Poor Rate of the Parish in which the Offence shall have been committed, and shall be paid for that Purpose to the Overseer or other Person authorized to receive Poor Rates in such Parish, or if the Place wherein the Offence shall have been committed shall be extra-parochial, then the Justices by whom such Penalty shall be adjudged to be paid shall direct such remaining Half thereof to be applied in aid of the Poor Rate of such extra-parochial Place, or, if there shall not be any Poor Rate therein, in aid of the Poor Rate of any adjoining Parish or District.
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