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payment to imprisonment in the County jail for twelve months for every thirty days of such neglect or failure

Section 6th
Be it further enacted that whenever in any County in this state any person shall be whipped or beaten or wounded upon any accusation real or pretended or to force such person to confess himself guilty of any offense or to make any disclosure or to consent to leave the neighborhood County or State or for any cause by two or more persons unknown or persons in disguise not unknown or in disguise shall be entitled to recover of the County in which such offense shall occur the sum of one thousand dollars as damages therefor by suit in the Circuit Court of said County to be conducted in the same manner as prescribed in this act for the conduct of suit and the enforcement of the judgement the cause of action shall survive the legal representatives, of the injured person and the damages when collected shall in no way be liable to the debts of the injured party but shall be distributed as in cases of intestacy.

Section 7th
Be it further enacted that if at any time before teh payment of the money recoverable under any section of this act the offender shall be apprehended and duly tried constricted and punished such conviction and