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Sale of butter, hides, and skins, forfeited.
application of money levied by distress, &c.
fees to person levying distress
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XL. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the said mayor of said city shall declare any cask, butter, hide, or calf skin, to be forfeited pursuant to the powers given him in this act, he shall within fourteen days cause the same to be sold by public auction to the highest bidder on the exchange of said city, between the hours of twelve and two, and that the money for which such cask, butter, hide, or calf skin, shall be sold, shall after defraying the reasonable expences of such sale by auction, be equally divided, one half thereof to go to the person or persons who shall have seized such cask, butter, hide, or calf-skin, and the other half to go to the governors of the work-house of said city, to be by them applied to the support and maintenance of such foundling children as then are, or thereafter shall be received into said work-house, or any other house by them used for the reception of such children, and that the penalty of twenty pounds to be paid by offenders convicted at the quarter-sessions of said city, or adjournment thereof, pursuant to this act, shall by the said clerk of the peace for said city, or his deputy, after deducting therefrom the sum of five shillings, as a fee to such clerk of the peace for receiving such penalty, be equally divided, one-half thereof to go to the person informing against and prosecuting to conviction such offender, at the said quarter-sessions, or any adjournment thereof, and the other half to go to the governors of the said work-house, to be by them applied in manner aforesaid; and that every penalty to be levied by distress, for any offence under this act, shall be equally divided, one-half thereof to go to the party informing against, and prosecuting every such offence, and the other half to the governors of said work-house, to be by them applied as aforesaid; and the person to whom the mayor shall direct his warrant for levying such distress, and who shall actually levy such distress, shall for his trouble have and receive the following fees, videlicet, two shillings, if the penalty do not exceed forty shillings; one shilling in the pound for every penalty above forty shillings, and not exceeding five pounds; and sixpence in the pound for every penalty above five pounds; said fees to be levied on the goods and chattels of the person or persons who shall incur such penalties, in like manner, as the penalties themselves are by this act directed to be levied; and every penalty which shall be recovered by civil bill under this act, shall go to the party suing for the same.
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