City of Cork (Improvement) Act 1777

Penalties, not provided for, laised by distress and sale,

or committed not above 3 months.

XXIV. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all penalties, not herein otherwise particularly provided for, shall be raised and levied by distress and sale of the offender’s goods; and in case no goods or chattles of the persons so offending can at the time of such conviction be found, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the said mayor, aldermen, or justices, before whom such offender shall be convicted, to commit such offender to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three months.