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VIIIJustices to fix the Time for Payment of Penalties. Imprisonment for Nonpayment.

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 Expences, 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 Months, the Imprisonment to cease upon Payment of the Amount and Costs.