Section 20 Penalty for obliterating mark on machine.

If any person or persons shall obliterate, efface, or alter the owner’s name or initials, or other distinguishing mark, on any frame, loom, or machine, or any bar or part thereof, or the moulds thereof, without the order or authority of the owner thereof, he shall, on conviction thereof before two justices of the peace, forfeit any such sum not exceeding two pounds as such two justices shall order and direct, . . . F1, to the party injured; and in default of payment of such forfeiture immediately on conviction, or within such period as the justices so convicting shall direct, then the said justices may, either immediately or at any time after such conviction, commit any person so convicted to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be imprisoned, . . . F2