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Application of forfeitures and penalties upon summary convictions.
Proviso where several persons join in commission of same offence.
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64. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited for the amount of any injury done shall be assessed in each case by the convicting justice, and shall be paid to the party aggrieved except where he is unknown, and in that case such sum shall be applied in the same manner as a penalty; and every sum which shall be imposed as a penalty by any justice of the peace, whether in addition to such amount, or otherwise, shall be paid and applied in the same manner as other penalties recoverable before justices of the peace are to be paid and applied in cases where the statute imposing the same contains no directions for the payment thereof to any person: Provided, that where several persons shall join in the commission of the same offence, and shall, upon conviction thereof, each be adjudged to forfeit a sum equivalent to the amount of the injury done, in every such case no further sum shall be paid to the party aggrieved than such value or amount; and the remaining sum or sums forfeited shall be applied in the same manner as any penalty imposed by a justice of the peace is herein-before directed to be applied.
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