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Penalty on persons summoned before commissioners and not attending or refusing to be examined, &c.
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29. And . . . if any of the persons liable to be summoned under any of the provisions in this Act contained, or having the care or custody of any papers, vouchers, books, deeds, evidences, terriers, maps, surveys, or other documents required to be produced by the commissioners under this Act, shall after being duly summoned omit to attend, or shall refuse or decline to be examined on oath, or to produce any of the said papers, vouchers, books, deeds, evidences, terriers, maps, surveys, or other documents, then and as often as it shall so happen, every such person shall be deemed guilty of disobeying this Act, and, being duly convicted thereof before any one magistrate, for every such offence shall be fined such sum, not exceeding twenty pounds, as such magistrate shall think proper.
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