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Amende, to be made to the
Person aggrieved by frangendect
of any
payment Conceeding
un notei
Fifty Collare, besides the
Penalty to which the offender may be liable for
the
offencer
6. _ And be it further enacted
and ordained, That no
Jurisdiction to thing. Magistrates generally
herein contained shall be
construed to prohibit any Magistrate of the Colony
from trying
and determin
Assault, or assault
and Battery, but it shall and may be lawful for any Magistrate, not only to
try
and determine such cases,
but that such Magistrate
shall have the same power
of fining
and imprisoning,
awarding
amende,
as
the Chief Magistrate mode shall have under the
preceding
7.
Sections.
And be it further ordained
and declared, that it shall
and may be lawful to and
the
For
ward Chief or acting
Chief Magistrate, during
the
in cases
of Assault
and Battery.
Power to commit offendere before
Conviction to Stand
their Trial before the Supreme
Court.
Trial of cer
any
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case under this
time
Ordinance, or at
For at any
Conviction, to commit the
before
Prisoner to stand his or her
Trial before the
Supreme
Court, should it appear to such
Magistrate
that the
Case
would be properly visited with
a
heavier Punishment than
such
Magistrate could award;
and that the Law administered
in
the said Supreme Court applies
such heavier Punishment.
Jurisdiction in Wages. 8. – And be it further enacted
and ordained, That it shall be
lawful and competent for the said Chief or acting Chief Magistrate to try and determine
in a
Summary
manner
Disputes
between Master
and Servant, and relating to
Wages,
where the pecuniary
question for decision shall not exceed the sum of One Hundred
Dollars: And That such
Magistrate may
Order
make
for the payment of such
Wages and any Costs incurred by the proceeding before him,
payable in like manner as the demand