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(a.) Tlie term “ county court ” means tire court for the
recovery of petty debts, in all cases in which the
claim or demand shall not exceed the sum of ten
pounds sterling, and in all other cases it means
the inferior number of the royal court of the said
island, composed of the bailiff and two jurats of
the said court :
(b.) The term “court of summary jurisdiction” has in
civil cases the same meaning as the term county
court :
(c.) All misdemeanors under this Act shall be prosecuted,
tried, and punished in the form and manner prescribed
by the law and custom of the said island
with respect to crimes and offences (crimes et
dUits):
0d.) All other offences and all penalties under this Act
shall be prosecuted and recovered summarily before
the magistrate of the court for the repression of
minor offences, in all cases of his competency, at
the suit or instance of the bailiff of the parish in
which the offence or other unlawful act shall have
been committed, and in all other cases before the
bailiff and two jurats of the royal court, at the
suit or instance of Her Majesty’s Procurator
General for the said island :
(e.) All penalties recovered under this Act shall be paid
to the officers who by the law and practice of the
said island are entitled to receive fines levied by
order of the said courts respectively, and shall by
such officers be accounted for and paid to Her
Majesty’s Receiver-General in the said island on
behalf of the Crown :
(/.) The powers conferred under this Act on two justices
shall be exercised by the inferior number of the
royal court of the said island :
(?•) Clause thirty-three of this Act, and the term “ Summary
Jurisdiction Acts,” shall not apply to the
said island, but all proceedings under this Act,
in any of the courts of the said island, shall be
