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Game Act 1831

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XXXVIIITime for Payment of Penalties, and Scale of Imprisonment for Non-payment.

And be it enacted, That the Justice or Justices of the Peace by whom any Person shall be summarily convicted and adjudged to pay any Sum of Money for any Offence against this Act, together with Costs, may adjudge that such Person shall pay the same either immediately or within such Period as the said Justice or Justices shall think fit, and that in default of Payment at the Time appointed such Person shall be imprisoned in the Common Gaol or House of Correction (with or without hard Labour), as to the Justice or Justices shall seem meet, for any Term not exceeding Two Calendar Month where the Amount to be paid, exclusive of Costs, shall not amount to Five Pounds, and for any Term not exceeding Three Calendar Months in any other Case, the Imprisonment to cease in each of the Cases aforesaid upon Payment of the Amount and Costs.

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