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fourteen days next after the making of the said order, and the Justices in such Quarter Sessions assembled shall thereupon hear and determine such appeal, and shall order such costs to be paid by either party as to them shall seem fit. Every such appeal, except so far as otherwise herein provided, shall be made in manner and subject to the conditions prescribed for regulating appeals by the Summary Proceedings Ordinance, Session II., No.5: Provided always that if there shall be no Court of General Quarter Sessions having jurisdiction over the county or district in which any such conviction or order shall be made, it shall be lawful for the party aggrieved to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Interpretation.

For the purposes of this Ordinance every word importing the masculine gender shall extend and be applied to a female as well as a male, except where the context excludes such construction.