Royal College of Physicians Act, 1761

Penalties recovered summarily before mayor, or chief magistrate, and recorder,

levied by distress, &c.

applied in Dublin by the college, in other places by chief magistrate, and examiners, to purchase medicines for the poor, and to informer.

>XXIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the penalties inflicted by this act may be sued for and recovered in a summary way before the lord mayor and recorder of the city of Dublin, or the mayor, or other chief magistrate, and recorder, of any other city or town corporate, where such offences are or shall be committed, who are hereby impowered and authorized to hear and determine the same, and to levy such penalties by distress and sale of the offender's goods, returning the overplus to the owner (if any be) the charges of taking and disposing of the goods so distrained being first deducted; one moiety of which said penalties, when recovered, shall be applied by the college of physicians in Dublin, and by the chief magistrate and examining physicians in other cities and towns corporate, for the purchasing medicines for the use of the poor; and the other moiety thereof for the use of the informer. [Rep., Stat. Law Rev. (I.) Act, 1879.]