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Divisional justices may award compensation for hurt or damage not exceeding 10l.
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25. Every person who by committing any offence herein forbidden within the police district shall have caused any hurt or damage to any person or property, may be apprehended, with or without any warrant, by any constable belonging to the Dublin police; and, if he shall not, upon demand, make amends for such hurt or damage to the satisfaction of the persons aggrieved, he shall be detained by the constable in order to be taken before a divisional justice, and upon conviction shall pay such a sum, not exceeding ten pounds, as shall appear to the divisional justice before whom he shall be convicted to be reasonable amends to the person aggrieved, besides any penalty to which he may be liable for the offence; and the evidence of the person aggrieved shall be admitted in proof of the offence: Provided always, that if the person aggrieved shall have been the only witness examined in proof of the offence, the sum ordered as amends shall be paid and applied in the same manner as a penalty.
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