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Party aggrieved by another taking higher charges than those mentioned in schedule (B) may apply to a justice of the peace. 16. If any person ... whatsoever shall in any manner levy, take, or receive from any person ... whatsoever, or retain or take from the produce of any goods sold for the payment of such ... taxes, ... impositions, or assessments, any other or greater costs and charges than are mentioned and set down in the said schedule, or make any charge whatsoever for any act, matter, or thing mentioned in the said schedule and not really done, it shall be lawful for the party ... aggrieved by such practices to apply to any one justice of the peace for the county, city, town, and acting for the division where such distress shall have been made or in any manner proceeded in, for the redress of his, ... grievance so occasioned, whereupon such justice shall summon the person ... complained of to appear before the justices of the petty sessions for such district at a reasonable time to be fixed in such summons, and such justices shall examine into the matter of such complaint by all legal ways and means, and also hear in like manner the defence of the person ... complained of; and if it shall appear to such justices that the person ... complained of shall have levied, taken, received, or had other and greater costs and charges than are mentioned or fixed in the schedule (B) hereunto annexed, or made any charge for any matter or thing mentioned in the said schedule, such act, matter, or thing not having been really done, such justices shall order and adjudge treble the amount of the monies so unlawfully taken to be paid by the person ... so having acted to the party ... who shall thus have preferred his, ... complaint thereof, together with full costs; .... S.17 rep. by SLR 1892
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