LARCENY ORDINANCE, 1865

LARCENY ORDINANCE, 1865

No. 5 of 1865.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating
to larcenty and similar offences.

[14 th June, 1865.]


1. This Ordiriance may be cited as the Larceny Ordinance,
1865.

2. In this Ordinance
(a) Document of title to goods includes any bill of
lading, India warrant, dock warrant, warehouse keeper's
certificate, warrant or order for the delivery or transfer of
any goods, or valuable thing, bought and sold note, or any
other document used in the ordinary course of business as
proof of the possession or control of goods, or authorising or
purporting to authorise, either by indorsement or by delivery,
the possessor of such document to transfer or receive any
goods thereby represented or therein mentioned or referred to.

(b) Property includes every description or real and
personal property, money, debts, and legacies, and all deeds
and instruments relating to or evidencing the title or right,
to any property, or giving a right to recover or receive any
money or goods, and also includes not only such property as
has been orginally in the possession or under the control of
fany party, but also any property into or for which the same
may have been converted or exchanged, and any thing
acquired by such conversion or exchange, whether im-
mediately or otherwise.

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.




(c) Trustee means a trustee on some express trust
created by some deed, will, or instrument in writing, and
includes the heir or personal representative of any such
trustee, and any other person upon or to whom the duty of
such trust has devolved or come, and also an executor and
administrator and an official manager, assignee, liquidator,
or other like officer acting under any Ordinance relating to
joint stock companies, bankruptcy, or insolvency.'

(d) Valuable security includes any order or other
security whatsoever entitling or evidenceing the title of any
person to any share or interest in any public stock or fund,
Whether of the United Kingdom, or of Great Britain, or
of Ireland, or of any foreign state , or in any fund of any
body, corporate, company, or society, whether within this,
Colony, or in the United Kingdom, or in any foreign state
or country, or to any deposit in any bank, and also. includes
any debenture, deed, bond, bill, note, warrant, order, or
other security whatsoever for money or for payment of money,
whether of the Colony, or of the United Kingdom, or of
Great Britain, or of Ireland, or of any foreign state, and any
document of title to goods as hereinbefore defined.

(e) The night shall be deemed to commence at 9 p.m. of
each day and to conclude at 6 a.m. of the succeeding day.

General.

3. Every larceny, whatever the value of the property
stolen, shall be deemed to be of the same nature, and shall
be subject to the same incidents in all respects, as grand
larceny was by the law of England before the 21 st day of
June, 1827.

4. Every person who, being a bailee of any chattel, money,
or valuable security, fraudulently takes or converts the same
to his own use or to the use of any person other than the
owner thereof, although he does ot break bulk or otherwise
determine the bailment, shall be guilty of larceny, and may
be convicted thereof on an indictment for larceny.

5. Every person who is convicted of simple larceny, or of
any felony hereby made punishable like simple larceny, shall
(except in the cases hereinafter otherwise provided for) be
liable to imprisoment for any tem not exeeding three years.






Every male person who is charged with having committed
or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider,
abettor, counseller, or procurer in commission of, any offence
which now is or hereafter may be by law deemed or declared
to be simple larceny or punishable as simple larceny, and
whose age, at the time of the commission or attempted
commission of such offence, does not, in the opinion of the
court before whic he is brought or appear, exceed the age
of sixteen years, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable to be
flogged either instead of or in addition to any other punish-
ment which may be inflicted for such offence.

6. Every person who commits the offence of simple larceny
after a previous conviction for felony shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding ten years, and, if
a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without
whipping.

7. Every peson who commits the offence of simple larceny
or any offence hereby made punishable like simple larceny,
after having been previously convicted of any indictable
misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance, shall be
liable to imprisonment for any term, not exceeding seven
years, and, if a male undre the age of sixteen years, with or
without whipping.

8. Every person who commits the offence of simple larceny
or any offence hereby made punishable like simple larceny,
after having been twic summarily convicted of any of the
offences punishable on summary conviction (whether each
of the convictions has been in respect of an offence of the
same description or not), shall be guilty of felony, and shall
be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven
years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or
without whipping.

Larceny of cattle and othher animals.

9. Every person who steals-
(1) any horse, mare, gelding, colt, or filly; or
(2) any bull, cow, ox heifer, or calf; or
(3) any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb,
shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male
under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.




10. Every person who steals-

(1) any goat or kid, whether male or female; or
(2) any boar, sow, hog, or pig,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding three years, and, if a male under
the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

11. Every person who wilfully kills any animal, with
intent to steal the carcase, skin, or any part of the animal so
killed, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to the
same punishment as if he had been convicted of feloniously
stealing the same, provided the offence of stealing the animal
so killed would have amounted to felony.

12.-(1) Every person who steals any dog shall upon
summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding six months, or shall be liable to a fine, over
and above the value of the said dog, not exceeding one
hundred dollars.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, after-
wards steals any dog shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be liable to imprisonment for any tem not exceeding
eighteen months.

13.-(1) Every person who unlawfully has in his possession
or on his premises any stolen dog or the skin of any stolen
dog, knowing such dog to have been stolen or such skin to
be the skin of a stolen dog, shall upon summary conviction
be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

(2) Every peson who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, is after-
wards guilty of any offence under this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding eighteen months.

14. Every person who corrputly takes any money or
rewards, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account
or aiding any person to recover any dog which has been
stolen, or which is in the possession of any person not being

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.







the owner thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
eighteen months.

15.-(1) Every person who-
(a) steals any bird, beast or other animal ordinarily kept
in a state of confinement or for any domestic purpose, not
being the subject of larceny at common law in England; or

(b) wilfully kills any such bird, beast, or animal, with
intent to steal the same or any part thereof,

shall upon summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding six months, or to pay, over and above
the value of the bird, beast, or other animal, a fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, is after-
wards guilty of any offence under this section shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall eb liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding twelve months.

16.-(1) If any such bird or any of the plumage thereof,
or any dog, or any such beast or the skin thereof, or any such
animal or any part thereof, is found in the possession or on
the premises of any person, a magistrate may restore the
same respectively to the owner thereof.

(2) Every person in whose possession or on whose premises
such bird or the plumage thereof, or such beast or the skin
thereof, or such animal or any part therof, is so found (such
person knowing that the bird, beast, or animal has been stolen,
or that the plumage ist the plumage of stolen bird, or that
the skin is the skin of a stolen beast, or that the part is a
part of a stolen animal), shall upon summary conviction be
liable, for the first offence, to such pecuniary penalty, and
for every subsequent offence, to such punishment as any
person convicted of stealing any beast or bird is made liable
to by section 15.

17. Every person who unlawfully and wilfully kills,
wounds, or takes any house-dove or pigeon in such cir-
cumstances as do not amount to larceny at common law in
England shall upon sumary conviction be liable to a fine,


* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
+ As amended by Law Revg. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923.








over and above the value of the bird, not exceeding ten
dollars.

Larceny of instruments.

18. Every person who steals, or for any fraudulent purpose
destroys, cancels, or obliterates, the whole or any part of any
valuable security, other than a document of title to lands,
shall be guilty of felony, of the same nature and in the same
degree and punisbable in the same manners as if he had stolen
any, chattel of like value with the share, interest, or deposit
to which the security so stolen may relate, or with the money
due on the security so stolen, or secure thereby and remain-
ing unsatisfied, or with the value of the. goods or other
valuable thing represented, mentioned, or referred to in or
by the security.

19. Every person who steals, or for any fraudulent purpose
destroys, cancels, obliterates, or conceals, the whole or any
part of any document of title to lands shall be guilty of
felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding three years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen
years, with or without whipping.

20.-(1) Every person who, either during the life of the
testator or after his death, steals, or for any fraudulent pur-
pose destroys, cancels, obliterates, or conceals, the whole or
any part of any will, whether the same relates to real or
personal estate, or to both, shall be guilty of felony, and shall
be liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male under the
age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

(2) In any indictment for any such offence it shall not be
necessary to allege that such will is the property of any
person.

(3) Nothing in this section or in section 19, nor any pro-
ceeding, conviction, or judgment to be had or taken there-
upon, shall prevent, lessen, or impeach any remedy at law or
in equity which any party aggrieved by any such offence
might or would have had if this Ordinance had not been
passed; but no conviction of any such offender shall be
received in evidence in any action at law or suit in equity
against him; and no person shall be liable to be convicted of

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.




As amended by Laiv Rev. Ord.,1923.


any of the felonies mentioned in this section and in section
19, by any evidence whatever, in respect of any act done by
him, if he at any time previously to his being charged with
such offence has first disclosed such act upon oath in con-
sequence of any compulsory process of any cout in any
action, suit, or proceeding which has been bona fide instituted
by any party aggrieved, or if he has first disclosed the same
in any compulsory examination or deposition before any
court on the hearing of any matter in bankruptcy.

21.-(1) Every person who-

(a) steals; or
(b) for any fraudulent purpose takes from its place of de-
posit for the time being or from any person having the
lawful custody thereof; or

(c) unlawfully and maliciously cancels, obliterates, injures,
or destroys,

the whole or any part of any record, writ, return, panel,
process, interogatory, deposition, affidavit, rule, order, or
warrant of attroney, or of any original document whatsoever
of or belonging to any court in this Colony, or relating to
any matter begun, depending, or terminated in any such court,
or of any bill, petition, answer, interrogatory, depostition,
affidavit, order, or decree, or of any original document in
anywise relating to the business of any office or employment
under His Majesty, and being or remaining in any office
appertaining to any court or in any government or public
office, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to impris-
onment for any term not exceeding three years, and, if a
male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whip-
ping.

(2) In any indictment for any such offence it shall not be
necessary to allege that the articel in respect of which the
offences is committed is the property of any person.

Larceny of things attached to ro growing on land.

22.-(1) Every person who steals, or rips, cuts, severs, or
breaks with intent to steal,-

(a) any glass, shingles, or wood-work belonging to aby
building whatsoever; or




(b) any lead, iron, copper, brass, or other meatl, or any
utensil or fixture, whether made of metal or other material
or of borth, respectively fixed in or to any building what-
soever; or

(c) any thing made of metal fixed in any land being
privat e property, or for a fence to any dwelling house, garden,
or area, or in any square or street, or in any place dedicated
to public use or ornament, or in any burial ground.

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to be punished
as in the case of simple larceny.

(2) In the case of any such thing fixed in any such square,
street, or place as aforesaid, it shall not be necessary to
allege the same to be the property of any person.

23.-(1) Every person who steals, or cuts, breaks, roots
up, or otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal,
the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any
underwood, respectively growing in any pleasure ground,
garden, orchard, or avenue, or in any ground adjoining or
belonging to any dwelling-house, shall (in case the value of
the article or articles stolen, or the amount of the injury
done, exceeds the sum of five dollars) be guilty of felony, and
shall be liable to be punished as in the case of simple
larceny.

(2) Every person who steals, or cuts, breaks, roots up, or
otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal, the whole
or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any underwood,
respectively growing elsewhere than in any of the situations
in this section before mentioned, shall (in case the value of
the article or articels stolen, or the amount of the injury
done, exceeds the sum of twenty-five dollars) be guilty of
felony, and shall be liable to be punished as in the case of
simple larceny.

24.-(1) Every person who steals, or cust, breaks, roots
up, or otherwise destroys or damages with intent to steal,
whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any
undewood, wheresoever the same may be respectively grow-
ing, the stealing of such article or articles or the injury done
being to the amount of twenty-five cents at the least, shall
upon summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and above

*As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.














* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.





the value of the article or articles stolen or the amount of
the injury done, not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, after-
wards commits any offence against this section, shall upon
conviction thereof in like manner for such second offence be
liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(3) Every person who, having been twice convicted of any
such offence afterwards commits any offence against this
section shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to be
punished as in the case of simple larceny.

25.-(1) Every person who steals, or cuts, breaks, or
throws down with intent to steal, any part of any live or dead
fence, or any wooden post, pale, wire, or rail set up or used
as a fence, or any stile or gate, or any part thereof respectively,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and
above the value of the article or articels so stolen or the
amount of the injury done, not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, afterwards
commits any offence against this section shall upon conviction
thereof in like manner be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding six months.

26. If the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub,
or any underwood, or any part of any live or dead fence, or
any post, pale, wire, rail, stile, or gate, or any part thereof,
being of the value of twenty-five cents at the least, is found
in the possession of any person or on the premises of any
person with his knowledge, and such person, being taken or
summoned before a magistrate, does not satisfy him that he
came lawfully by the same, he shall be liable to a fine, over
and above the value of the article or articles so found, not
exceeding ten dollars.

27.-(1) Every person who steals, or destroys or damages
with intent to steal, any plant, root, fruit, or vegetable
production growing in any garden, orchard, pleasure ground,
or nursery ground, hot-house, green-house, or conservatory
shall upon summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1823.
















any term not exceeding six months, or to a fine, over and
above the value of the article or articles so stolen or the
amount of the injury done, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, afterwards
commits an offence against this section shall be guilty of
felony, and shall be liable punished as in the case of
simple larceny.

28.-(1) Every person steals, or destroys, or damages
with intent to steal, any cultivated plant or root used for the
food of man or beast, or for medicine, or for distilling, or for
dyeing, or for or in the course of any manufafture, and
growing in any land, open or enclosed, not being a garden,
orchard, pleasure ground, or nursery ground, shall upon
summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding one month, or to a fine, over and above the
value of the article or articles so stolen or the amount of the
injury done, not exceeding five dollars; and in default of
payment thereof, together with the costs (if ordered), shall
be dealt with as the law relating to the jurisdiction of
magistrates provides.

(2) Every person who, having been convicted of any such
offence, either against this or any former enactment, after-
wards commits any offence against this section shall, on
conviction thereof in like manner, be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding six months.

Larceny of electricity.

28A. Any person who maliciously or fraudulently ab-
strats, causes to be wasted or diverted, consumes, or uses any
electricity shall be guilty of simple larceny and punishable
accordingly.

Larceny from the person and similar offences.

29. Every person who robs any persons, or steals any
chattels, money, or valuable security from the person of
another, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any tem not exceeding fourteen years,
and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without
whipping.

* As amended by law Am. Ord., 1923.
+ See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.





30. * Every person who assaults any person with intent
to rob shall be guilty of felony, and shall (save and except in
the cases where a greater punishment is provided by this Ordinance) be
liable to imprisonment for any term not exceed-
ing three years.

31. * Every person who-

(1) being armed with any offensive weapon or instrument,
robs, or assaults with intent to rob, any person; or,

(2) together with one or more other person or persons,
robs, or assaults with intent to rob, any peson; or,

(3) robs any person, and, at the time of or immediately
before or immediately after such robbery, wounds, beats,
strikes, or uses any other personal violence to any person,

shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment
for life.

32. * Every person who sends, delivers, or utters, or
directly or indirectly causes to be received, knowing the
contents thereof, any letter or writing demanding of any
person with menaces, and without any reasonable or probable
cause, any property, chattel, money, valuable secruity, or
other valuable thing shall be guilty of felony, and shall be
liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male under the age
sixteen years, with or without whipping.

33. * Every person who, with menaces or by force,
demands any property, chattel, money, valuable security, or
other valuable thing of any person, with intent to steal the
same, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding three years.

34.-(1) Every person who send, delivers, utters, or
directly or indirectly causes to be received, knowing the
contents thereof, any letter or writing accusing or threaten-
ing to accuse any other person of any crime punishable by
law with death of imprisonment with hard labour for not less
than seven years, or of an assault with intent to commit a
rape, or of an attempt or endeavour to commit a rape, or of

* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.





any infamous crime as hereinafter defined, with the view or
intent in any of such cases to extort or gain by means of such
letter or writing any property, chattel, money, valuable
secruity, or other valuable thing from any person, shall be
guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life,
and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or with-
out whipping.

(2) The abominable crime of buggery, committed either
with mankind or with any beast, and every assault with
intent to commit the said abominatble crime, and every
attempt or endeavour to commit the said abominable crime,
and every solicitation, persuasion, promise, or threat offered
or made to any person whereby to move or induce such per-
son to commit or permit the said abominable crime shall be
deemed to be an infamous crime within the meaning of theis
Ordinance.

35. Every person who accuses or threatens to accuse,
either the person to whom such accusation or threat is made
or any other person, of any of the infamous or other crimes
lastly hereinbefore mentioned, with the view or intent in any
of the cases last aforesaid to extort or gain from such person
so accused or threatened to be accused, or from any other
person, any propety, chattel, money, valuable secruity, or
liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male uner the age
of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

36. Every person who, with intent to defraud or injure
any other person, by any unlawful violence to or restraint
of, or threat of violencce to or restraint of, the person of
another, or by accusing or threatening to accuse any person
of any treason, felony, or infamous crime as hereinbefore
defined, compels or induces any person to execute, make,
accept, indorse, alter, or destroy the whole or any part of
any valuable security, or to write, impress, or affix his name,
or the name of any other person or of any company, firm,
or co-partnership, or the seal of any body corporate, company,
or society, upon or to any paperor parchment, in order that
the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used
or dealt with as, a valuable secruity, shall be guilty of felony,
and shall be liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male
under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.





37. It shall be immaterial whether the menaces or threats
hereinbefore mentioned are of violence, injury, or accusation
to be caused or made by the offender or by anyother person.

Sacrilege, burglary, and housebreaking.

38. * Every person who-

(1) breaks and enters any church, chapel, meeting house,
or other place of divine worship, and commits any felony
therein; or,

(2) being in any chruch, chapel, meeting house, or other
place of divine worhip, commits any felony therein and
breaks out of the same,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment
for life, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with
or without whipping.

39. * Every person who-

(1) enters the dwelling-house of asnother with intent to
commit any felony therein; or,

(2) being in such dwelling-house, commits any felony
therein,

and in either case breaks out of the said dwelling-house
in the night, shall be deemded guilty of burglary.

40. Every person who is convicted of the crime of
burglary shall be liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a
male under the age of sixteen years, whit or without
whipping.

41. No building, although within the same curtilage with
any dwelling-house and occupied therewith, shall be deemed
to be part of such dwelling-house for any of the pruposes
of this Ordinance unless there is a communication between
such building and dwelling-house, either immediate or by
means of a covered and enclosed passage, leading from the
one to other.

42. * Every peson who enters any dwelling-house in the
night, with intent to commit any felony therein, shall be
guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding seven years.

* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.



43. * Every peson who-

(1) breaks and enters any building, and commits any
felony therein, such building being within the curtilage of
a dwelling-house and occupied therewith, but not being part
thereof, according to the provision hereinbefore mentioned;
or,

(2) being in any such building, commits any felony therein,
and breaks out of the same,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male
under the age sixteen years, with or without whipping.

44. * Every peson who-
(1) breaks and entes any dwelling-house, school house,
store, shops, warehouse, godown, or counting-house, and
commits any felony therein; or

(2) being in any dwelling-house, school house, store, shop,
warehouse, godown, or counting-house, commits any felony
therein and breaks out of the same,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male
under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

45. * Every person who breaks and entes any dwelling-
house, church, chapel, meeting house, or othe place of
divine worship, or any building within the curtilage, school
house, store, shop, wareshoues, godown, or counting-house,
with intent to commit any felony therein, shall be guilty
of felony, and shall liable to imprisonment for any term
no exceeding seven years.

46. * Every person who-

(1) is found by night armed with any dangerous or
offensive weapon or instrument whatsoever, with intent to
break or enter any dwelling-house, or other building what-
soever, and to commit any felony therein; or

(2) is found by night having in his possession, without
lawful excuse, any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit, or other
implement of housebreaking; or


* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.













(3) is found by night having his face blackened or other-
wise disguised, with intent to commit any felony; or

(4) is found by night in any dwelling-house or other
building whatsoever, with intent to commit any felony
therein,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to
imprisonement for any term not exceeding three years.

47. * Every person who is convicted of any such mis-
demeanor as is mentioned in section 46, committed after a
previous conviction either for felony or for such misdemeanor,
shall, on such subsequent conviction, be liable to imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding ten years.

Larceny in dwelling-houses.

48. Every person who steals in any dwelling-house any
chatel, money, or valuable security, to the value in the
whole of twenty-five dolars or more, shall be guilty of
felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding foruteen years, and, if a male under the age
of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

49. * Every peson who steals any chattel, money, or
valuable security in any dwelling-house, and by any menace
or threat puts any one being therein in bodily fear, shall be
guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding fourteen years.

Larceny in ships, wharves, etc.

50. Every person who-

(1) steals any goods or merchandise in any vessel, barge,
or boat of any description whatsoever in any haven, or in
any port of enry or discharge or in the course of any
voyage from any port or place in the Colony to any other
port or place therein, or in any creek or basin belonging to
or communicating with any such haven or port; or

(2) steals any goods or merchandise from any dock, wharf,
or quay adjacent to any such haven, por, creek, or basin,

shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male
under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

* See No. 10 of 1886, Second Schedule.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.











51, Every person, who plunders or steals any part of any
ship or vessel which is distress or, wrecked, stranded, or
cast on shore, or any goods, merchandise, or articles of any
kind belonging to such ship or vessel, shall be guilty of
felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of
sixteen years, with or withour whipping.

52. If any goods, merchandise, or articles of any kind
belonging to any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked
stranded, or cast on shore, are or is found in the possession
of any person or on the premises of any person with his
knowledge, and such person, being taken or summoned
before a magistrate, does not satisfy him that he came law-
fully by the same, then the same shall, bu order of the
magistrate, be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of
the rightful owner thereof; and the offender shall upon
summary conviction for such offence be liable to imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding six months, or to a fine,
over and above the value of the goods, merchandise, or
articles, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

53.-(1) If any person offers or exposes for sale any goods
merchandise, or articles whatsoever which have or has been
unlawfully taken, or are or is reasonably suspected so to
have been taken, from any ship or vessel in distress or
wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, in every such case any
person to whom the same sre or is offered for sale, or any
officer of the customs or police, amy lawfully seize the same,
and shall with all convenient speed carry the same, or give
notice of such seizure, to a magistrate.

(2) If the person who has offered or exposed the same for
sale, being summoned by the magistrate, does not appear and
satisfy him that he came lawfully by such goods, mer-
chandise, or articels then the same shall, by order of the
magistrate, be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of
the rightful owner thereof, on payment of a reasonable
reward (to be ascertaine dby the magistrate) to the prson
who seized the same; and the offender shall upon summary
conviction for such offence be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding six months, or to a fine, over and above
the value of the goods, merchandise, or articles, not exceeding
one hundred dollars.

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.







Larceny or embezzlement by clerks, servants, etc.

54. Every person who, being a clerk or servant or being
employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk or
servant, steals any chattel, money, or valuable secruity
belonging to or in the possession or power of his master or
employer shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to
imprisoment for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and,
if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without
whipping.

55. Every person who, being a clerk or servant or being
employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a clerk
or servant, fraudulently embezzles any chattel, money,
or valuable security which is delievered to or received
or taken into possession by him for or in the name or on
the account of his master or employer, or any part thereof,
shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from
his master or employer, although such chattel, money, or
secutity was not received in to the possession of such master
or employer otherwise than by the actual possession of his
clerk, servant, or other person so employed, and shall be liable
to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years,
and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without
whipping.

56. Every person who, being a member of any co-partner-
ship or being one of two or more beneficial owners of any
money, goods, or effects, bills, notes, securities, or other
property, steals or embezzles any such money, goods, or
effects, bills, notes, securities, or other property belonging to
such co-partnership or to such joint beneficial owners shall
be liable to be dealt with tried, convicted, and punished for
the same as if such person had not been or was not a member
of such co-partnership or one of such beneficial owners.

57. Every person who, ebing employed in the public
service of His majesty in this Colony or being a constable or
other person employed int he police force, steals any chattel,
money, or valuable security belonging to or in the possession
or power of His Majesty or entrusted to or received or taken
into possession by him by virtue of his employment, shall be
guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding fourteen years.


58. Every person who, being employed in the public
service of His Majesty in this Colony or being a constable or
other person employed in the police force, and entrusted by
virtue of such employement with the receipt, custody, manage-
ment, or control of any chattel, money, or valuable security,
embezzles any chattel, money, or valuable security which is
virtue of his employment, or any part thereof, or in any
manner fraudulently applies or disposes of the same or any
part thereof to his own use or benefit or for any purpose
whatsoever except for the public service, shall be deemed to
have feloniously stolen the same from His Majesty, ane shall
be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen
years.

59. In every case of larceny, embezzlement, or fraudulent
application or dispostion of any chattel, money, or valuable
secuirty mentioned in secions 57 and 58, it shall be lawful,
in the warrant of commitment by the magistrate before whom
the offender is charged and in the indictment to be preferred
against such offender, to lay the property of any such chattel,
money, or valuable security in His Majesty.

60.-(1) If, on the trila of any person indicted for
embezzlement or fraudulent application or disposition as afore-
said, it is proved that he ttok the property in question in any
such manner as to amount in law to larceny, he shall not by
reason thereof be enntitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be
at liberty to return as their verdict that such person is not
guilty of embezzlement or fraudulent application or disposi-
tion, but is guilty of simple larceny, or of larceny, as a clerk,
servant, or person employed for the purpose or in the capacity
of a clerk or servant, or as a person employed in the public
sevice or in the police force, as the case may be; and there-
upon such peson shall be liable to be punished in the same
manner as if he had been convicted on an indictment for
such larceny.

(2) If, on the trial of any person indicted for larceny, it is
proved that he took the property in question in any such
manner as to amount in law to embezzlement or fraudulent
application or disposition as aforesaid he shall not by reason
thereof be entitled to be acquitted, but the jury shall be

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.








at liberty to return as their verdict that such person is not
guilty or larceny, but is guilty of embezzlement or fraudulent
application or disposition, as the case may bne, and thereupon
such person shall be liable to be punished in the same manner
as if he had been convicted on an indictment for such
embezzlement or fraudulent application or dispositon.

(3) No [erson so tried for embezzlement, fraudulent
appliction or disposition, or larceny as aforesaid shall be
liable to be afterwards prosecuted for larceny, fraudulent
application or disposition, or embezzlement upon the same
facts.

Larceny by tenants or lodgers.

61.-(1) Every person who steals any chattel or fixture
let to be used by him or her in or with any house or lodging,
whether the contract has been enteed into by him or her or
by her husband or by any person on behalf of him or her
husband, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, and, if
a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whip-
ping; and, in case the value of such chattel or fixture exceeds
the sum of twenty-five dollars, shall be liable to imprison-
ment for any term not exceeding seven years, and, if a male
under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

(2) In every case of stealing any chattel mentioned in this
section, it shall be lawful to prefer an indictment in the com-
mon form as for larceny, and in every case of stealing any
fixture mentioned in this section, to prefer an indictment in
the same form as if the offender were not a tenant or lodger,
and in either case to lay the property in the owner or person
letting to hire.

62. - (1) Whosoever
(a) being entrusted,either solely or jointly with any other
person, with any property, in order that he may retain in safe
custody or apply, pay or deliver, for any prupose or to any
person, the property or any part thereof or any proceeds
thereof; or

(b) having, either solely or jointly with any other person,
received any property for or on account of any other person,

* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.
























fraudulently converts to his own or benefit, or the use or
benefit of any other peson, the property or any part thereof
or any proceeds thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be liable to imprisonment for any tem not exceed-
ing seven years.

(2) Nothing in this section shall apply to or affect any
trustee on any express trustr created by a ded or will, or any
mortagee or any property, real or personal, in rrespect of any
act done by the trustee or mortagee in relation to the property
comprised in or affected by any such trust or mortage.

[s.63, rep. No. 7 of 1909, s.2.]

64. Every person who, being entrusted, either solely or
jointly with any other person, with any power of attorney for
the sale or transger of any property, fraudulently sells or
transfers or otherwise converts the same or any part thereof
to his own use or benefit, or to the use or benefit of any person
other than the person by whom he has been so entrusted,
shall be guilty of a misdemeaanor, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.

65.-(1) Every person who, being a factor or agent
entrusted, either solely or jointly with any other person, for
the purpose of sale or othterwise, with the possession of any
godds or of any document of title to goods, contrary to or
without the authority of his principal in that behalf, for his
own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of any person
other than the person by whom he has been so entrusted,
and in violation of good faith,-

(a) makes any consignment, deposit, transfer, or delivery
of any goods or document of title so entrusted to him as in
this section before mentioned, as and by way of a pledge,
lien, or security for any money or valuable security borrowed
or received for any money or valuable security borrowed
making such consignment, deposit, transfer, or delivery, or
intended to be thereafter borrowed or received; or

(b) accepts any advance of any money or valuable security
on the faith of any contract or agreement to consign, deposit,
transfer, or deliver any such goods or document of title,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to
imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven years.

* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.





































(2) Every clerk or other person who knowingly and wil-
fully acts and assists in making any such consignment,
deposit, transfer, or delivery, or in accepting or procuring
such advance as aforesaid, shal be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be liable to the same punishment: Provided that
no such factor or agent shall be liable to any prosecution for
consigning, depositing, transferring, or delivering any such
goods or document of title, in case the same is not made a
security for or subject to the payment of any greate sum of
money than the amount which, at the time of such consign-
ment, deposit, transfer, or delivery, was justly due and owing
to such agent from his principal, together with the amount
of any bill of exchange drawn by or on account of such
principal and accepted by such factor or agent.

66.-(1) Any factor or agent entrusted as aforesaid and
possessed of any such document of title, whether derived
immmediatley from the owner of such goods or obtained by
reason of such factor or agent having been entrusted with the
possession of the goods or of any other document of title
thereof, shall be deemed to have been entrusted with the
possession of the goods represented by such document of
title.

(2) Every contract pledging or giving a lien upon such
document of title as aforesaid shall be deemed to be a pledge
of and lien upon the goods to which the same relates.

(3) Such factor or agent shall be deemed to be possessed
of such goods or document, whether the same are or is in
his actural custody or are or is held by nay other person
subject to his control or for him or on his behalf.

(4) Where any loan or advance is bona fide made to any
factor or agent entrusted with and in possesion of any such
goods or document of title, on the faith of any contract or
agreement in writing to consign, deposit, transfer or deliver
such goods or document of title, and such goods or docu-
ment of title are or is actually received by the person
making such loan or advance, without notice that such
factor or agent was not authorised to make such pledge or
security, every such loan or advance shall be deemed to be
a loan or advance on the security of such goods or document
of title within the meaniong of section 65, though such


* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
















goods or document of title are or is not actually received
by ther person making such loan or advance till the period
subsequent thereto.

(5) Any contract or agreement, whether made direct with
such factor or agent or with any clerk or other person on
his behalf, shall be deemed to be a contract or agreement
with such factor or agent.

(6) A factor or agent in possession as aforesaid of such
goods or document of title shall be taken, for the purpose
of section 65, to have been entrusted therewith by the owner
thereof, unless the contrary is shown in evidence.

67. Every person who, being a trustee of any property
for the use of benefit, either wholly or partially, of some
other person or for any public or charitable purpose, with
intent to defraud, converts or appropriates the same or any
part therof to ro for his own use of benefit, or to or for the
use or benefit of any person other than such person as
aforesaid, or for any purpose other than such public or
charitable purpose as aforesaid, or otherwise disposes of or
destroys such propety or any part thereof, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding seven years: Provided that no
proceeding or prosecution for any offence included in this
section shall be commmenced without the sanction of the
Attorney General: Proviede, also, that where any civil
proceeding has been taken against any person who has taken such
civil proceeding shall commence any prosecution under this
section without the sanction of the court or judge before
whom such civil proceedng has been had or is pending.

68. Every person who, being a director, member, or
public officer of any body corporate or public company,
fraudulently takes or applies for his own use or benefit, or
for any use or purposes other than the use or purposes of
such body corporate or public company, any of the property
of such body corporate or public company shall be guilty

* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.











of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for
any term not exceeding seven years.

69. Every person who, being a director, public officer, or
manager of any body corporate or public company, as such
receives or possesses himself of any of the property of such
body corporate or public company otherwise than in payment
of a just debt or demand, and, with intent to defraud, omits
to make or to causes or direct to be made a full and true
entry thereof in the books and accounts of such body
corporate or public company, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding seven years.

70. Every person who, being a director, manager, public
officer, or member of any body corporate or public company,
with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates, or falsifies
any book, paper, writing, or valuable security belonging to
such body corporate or public company, or makes or concurs
in the making of any false entry, or omits or concurs in
omitting any material particular, in any book of account or
other document, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be liable to imprisonemtn for any term not exceeding seven
years.

71. Every person who, being a director, manager, or
public officer of any body coporate or public company,
makes, circulates, or publishes, or concurs in making,
circulating, or publishing, any written statement or account
which he knows to be false in any material particular, with
intent ot deceive or defraud any member, shareholder,
or creditor of such body corporate or public company, or
with inten to induce any person to tbecome a shareholder or
partner theein, or to entrust or advance any property to
such body corporate or public company, or to enter into any
security for the benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding seveny years.

72.-(1) Nothing in sections 62 or 71 shall enable or
entitle any person to refuse to make a full and complete
discovery or to answer any question or interrogatory in any
proceding in any court or on the hearing of any matter in
bankruptcy.

* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.














(2) No person shall be liable to be convicted of any of the
misdemeanors mentioned in sections 62 to 71 by nay evidence
whatever in respect or any act done by him, if he, at any
time previously to his being chargded with such offence, has
first didclosed such act, upon oath, in consequence of any
compulsory process of any cout, in any action, suit, or
proceeding which has been bona fide instituted by any party
aggrieved.

(3) A statement or admission made by any person in any
compulsory examination or deposition before any court shall
not be admissible as evidence against that person in any
proceeding in respect of any of the misdeeanors mentioned
in the said sections.

73. Nothing in secions 62 to 72, nor any proceeding,
conviction, or judgment to be had or taken thereon against
any person under any of the said sections, shall prevent,
lessen, or impeach any remedy at law or in equity which
any party aggrieved by any offence against any of the said
sections might have had if this Ordinance had not been
passed; but no conviction of any such offender shall be
received in evidence in any action at law or suit in equity
against him ; and nothing in the said sections shall affect or
prejudice any agreement entered into or security given by
any trustee, having for its object the restoration or repay-
ment of any trust property misappropirated.

74. Every person who, being a clerk, officer, or servant
or employed or acting in the capacity of clerk, officer, or
servant, wilfully and with intent to defraud,-

(a) destroy,s laters, mutilates, or falsifies any book, paper,
writing, valuable secruity, or account which belongs to or is
in the possesion of his employer or has been received by
him for or on behalf or his employer; or

(b) makes or concurs in making any false entry in, or
omits or alters, or concurs in omitting or altering, any
material particular from or in any such book or any
document or account,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to
imprisonemtn for any term not exceeeding seven years.

* See No. 3 of 1890, Third Schedule.
+ As amended by No. 17 of 1919.






















Obtaining property by false paretences.

75.-(1) Every person who by any false pretence obtains
from any other person any chattel, money, or valubale
security, with intent to defraud, shall be guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term
not exceeding three years : Provided that if, on the trial of
any person indicted for such misedmeanor, it is proved that
be obtained the property in question in any such manner as
to amount in law to larceny, he shall not by reason thereof
be entitled to be acquitted of such imidemeanor; and no
person tried for such misdemeanor shall be laible to be after-
wards prosecuted for larceny upon the same facts.

(2) On the trial of any indictment for obtaining or
attempting to obtain any such property by false pretences,
with intent to defraud, it shall not be necessary to prove an
intent to defraud any particular person, but it shall be
sufficient to prove that the accused did the act charged with
an intent to defraud.

76. Every person who by any false pretence causes or
procures any money to be paid or any chattel or valuable
security to be delivered to any other person, for the use or
benefit or on account of the person making such false
pretence or of any other person, with intent to defraud,
shall be deemed to have obtained such money, chattel, or
valuable security within the meaning of section 75.

77. Every person who, with intent to defraud or injury any
other person, by any false pretence fraudulently causes or
induces any other poerson to execute, make, accept, indorse,
or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security,
or to write, impress, or affix his name, or the name of any
other person or of any comany, form, or co-partnership, or
the seal of any body corporate, company, or society, upon any
paper or parchemennt, in order that the same may be after-
wards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a
valuable security, shall be guilty oif a misdemeanor, and shall
be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three
years.

78.-1(1) Every person who falsely and deceitfully per-
sonates any person, or the heir, executro, or administrator,


* As amended by No. 17 of 1919 and Law Am Ord., 1923.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.

















wife, widow, next of kin, or relation of any person, with
intent fraudulentyly to obtain any land, estate, chattel, money,
valuable security, or property, shall be guilty of felonly, and
shall be liable to imprisonment for life.

(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from
being proceeded against and punished under any other
enactment or at common law in respect of an offence, if any,
punishable as well under this section as under any other
enactment or at common law.

Receviing stolen property.

79.-(1) Every person who receives any chattel, money,
valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing,
taking, extorting, obtaining, embezzling, or otherwise dispos-
ing whereof amounts to a felony, wither at common law or by
virtue of this Ordinance, knowing the same to have been
feloniously stolen, taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or
disposed of, shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted
and convicted either as an acccessory after the fact or for a
substantive felony, and, in the latte case, whether the
principal felon has or has not been previously convicted or
is or is not amenable to justice.

(2) Every such receiver, however convicted, shall be
liable to imprisonment for any term not exceding foruteen
years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or
without whipping : Provided that no person, however tried
for receiving as aforesaid, shall be liable to be prosecuted a
second time for the same offence.

80.-(1) Every person who, without lawful excuse, re-
ceives or has in his possession, in the Colony, any property
stolen outside the Colony, knowing such property to have
been stolen, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding seven years.

(2) For the prupose of this section, property shall be
deemed to have been stolen where it has been taken, extorted,
obtained, embezzled, coverted, or disposed of in such
circustances that, if the act had been committed in the
Colony, the person committing it would have been guilty of
an indictable offence according to the law for the time being
in force in The Colony.

*As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.


















(3) An offence under this section shall be a felony or mis-
demeanor according as the act committed outside the Colony
would have been a felony or misdemeanor in the Colony.

81. Where an indictment is preferred against two or more
person, it shall be lawful for the jury who try the same to
find all or any of ther said persos guilty either or stealing
the property or of receiving the same, or any part or parts
thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, or to find
one or more of the said pesons guilty of stealing the prop-
erty, and the other or others of them guilty of receiving the
same or any aprt of parts therof, knowing the same to have
been stolen.

82. Whenever any property whatsoever has been stolen,
taken, extorted, obtained, embezzled, or otherwise disposed
of in such a manner as to amount to a felony, either at com-
mon law or by virtue of this Orinance, any number of
receivers at different times of such property, or of any part
or parts thereof, may be charged with substantive felonies
in the same indictment, and may be tried together, not-
withstanding that the principal felon is not inculded in
the same indictment or is not in custody or amenable to
justice.

83. If, on the trial of any two or more persons indicted
for jointly receiving any property, it is proved that one or
more of such persons separately recevied any part or parts
of such property, it shall be lawful for the jury to convict on
such indictment such of the sail persons as may be proved
to have received any part of parts of such property.

84.-(1) Every person who receives any chattel, money,
valuable secruity, or other property whatsoever, the stealing,
taking, obtaining, converting or disposing whereof is made
a misdemeanor by this Ordinance, knowing the same to have
been unlawfully stolen, taken, obtained, coverted, or dis-
posed of, shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and may be
indicted and convicted thereof, whether the person guklty of
the principal misedmeanor has or has not been previously
convicted thereof or is or is not amenable to justice.

(2) Every such receiver shall be liable to imprisonment
for any term not exceeding seven years, and, if a male under
the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.


























85. Where the stealing or taking of any property whatso-
ever is by this Ordinance punishable on summary conviction,
eithe. for every offence, or for the first and second offence
only, or for the first offence only, every person who receives
any such property, knowing the same to be lawfully come
by, shall, upon summary convictionbe liable, for every first,
second,, or subsequent offence of receiving, to the same
penalty to which a person guilty of a first, second, or
subsequent offence of stealing or taking such property is by
this Ordinance made liable.

86. (1) In the case of every felony punisable under this
Ordinance every principal in the second degree, and every
accessory before the fact, shall be punishable in the same
manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordi-
nance puishable.

(2) Every accessory after the fact to any felony punisliable
under this Ordinance (except only a receiver of stolen
property) shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding two years.

(3) Every person who aids, abets, counsels or procures
the commission of any misdeineanor punishable under this
Ordinance shall be liable to be indicted and punished as a
principal offender.

87. Every person who aids, abets, counsels, or procures
the commission of any offence which is by this Ordinance
punishable on sumary conviction, either for every time of
its commission, or for the first and second time only, or for M 1 1 2,
the first time only, shall upon summary conviction be liable,
for every first, second, or subsequent offence of aiding,
abetting, counselling, or procuring; to the same penalty to
which a person guilty of a first, second, or subsequent offence
as a principal offender is by this Ordinance made liable.

Restitution and recovery of stolen propety

88. If any person guilty of any such felony or misdemeanor
as is mentioned in this Ordinance in stealing, taking, obtain-
ing, extoring, embezzling, converting, or disposing of, or
in knowingly receiving, any chattel, money, valuable security,
or other property whatsoever, is indicted for such offence, by
or on the behalf of the owner of, the property or his executor
or administrator, and convicted thereof, in such case the the

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.

property shall be restored to the owner or his representative;
and in every case in this section aforesaid the court before
which any person is tried for any such felony or misdemeanor
shall have power to order the restitution thereof in a summary
manner: Provided that if it appears, before, any award or
order made, that any, valuable security has been bond fide
paid or discharged by some person liable to the payment
thereof or, being a negotiable instructment, has been bona^ fide
taken or received by transfer or delivery, by some person
for a just and valuable cosideration, without any notice or
without any reasonable, cause to suspect that the same had
by any felony or midemeanor been stolen, taken, obtained,
extorted, embezzled, converted, or disposed of, in such case the
court shall not award or order the restitution of such security:
Provided, also, that nothing in this section shall apply to the
ease of any prosecution of any banker, merchant, attorney,
factor, broker, or other agent, or any trustee, entrusted
with the possession of any goods or of any doctiment of title
to goods for, any misdemeanor against this Ordiiiance.

89. Every person who corruptly takes any money or
reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon account
of helping any person to recover any chattel, money, valuable
security, or other property whatsoever which by any felony
or misdemeanor has been stolen, taken, obtained, extorted,
embezzled, converted, or disposed of, as in this Ordinance
before mentioned, shall (unless he has used all due diligence
to cause the offender to be brought to trial for the same) be
guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding seven years, and, if a male under the age
of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

90. Every person who-
(1) publicly advertises a reward for the return of any
property whatsoever which has been stolen or lost, and in
such advertisement uses any words purporting that no
questons will be asked; or

(2) makes use of any words in any public advertisement
purporting that a reward will be given or paid for any
property which has been stolen or lost, without seizing
or making any inquiry after the person producing such
property ; or

* The word recover has been omitted from the English Act as printed in the
Statutes at large, and in all subsequent editions.





(3) promises or offers in any such public advertisement to
return to any pawnbroker or other person who may have
bought or advanced money by way of loan upon any property
stolen or lost the money so paid or advanced, or any other
sum of money or reward for the return of such property ; or

(4) prints or publishes any such advertisement,

shall forfeit the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for
every such offence to any eson who will sue for the same
by action of debt, to be recoveered with full costs of suit.

Apprehension of offenders and other proceedings.

91.-(1) Any peson who is found commtting any offence
punishable, either on indictment or on summary conviction,
by virtue of this Ordinance may be immediately apprehended
without a warrant by any person, and forthwith taken,
together with such property, if any, before a magistrate, to
be dealt with according to law.

(2) If any credible witness proves, upon oath before a
magistrate, a reasonable cause to suspect that any person
has in his possession or on his premises any property what-
soever on or with respect to which any offence punishable,
either on indictment or on summary conviction, by virtue of
this Ordinance has been committed, the magistrate may
grant a warrant to search for such property as in the case
of stolen goods.

(3) Any peson to whom any property is offered to be sold,
pawned, or delivered, if he has reasonable cuase to suspect
that any such offence has been committed on or with respect
to such property, is hereby authorised, and, if in his power,
is required, to apphrehend and forthwith to take before a
magistrate the person offering the same, together with such
property, to be dealt with according to law.

92. Any constable may take into custody, without a war-
rant, any peson whom he finds lying or loitering in any
highway, yard, or other place, during the night, and whom
he has good cause to suspect of having committed, or being
about to commit, any felony mentioned in this Ordinance,
and shall take such person as soon as reasonably may be,
before a magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.





















93 Every sun of money which is ordered to be paid on a
summary conviction for the value of any propety stolen or
taken, or for the amount of any injury done (such value or
amount to be assessed in each ease by the convicting
magistrate), shall be paid to the party aggrieved, except where
he is unknown, and that ease such sum shall be applied in
the same manner as a penalty: Provided that where several,
persons join in the commission of the same offence, and, on
conviction thereof, each is ordered to pay a snm equivalent
to the value of the property or to the amount of the injury,
no further sum shall be paid to the party aggrieved than
such value or amount ; and the remaining sum ordered to be
paid shall be applied in the same manne as a penalty.

[s.94, rep. No. 50 of 1911.]

95. Where any penson is summarily convicted of any
offence against this Ordinance, and it is a first conviction, the
magistrate may discharge the offender from his conviction,
on his making such satisfaction to the party aggrieved for
damages and costs; or either of them, as may be ascertained
by the magistrate-

96. Inl case any peson convicted of any offence punishable
on summary conviction by virtue of this Ordinance pays the
sum ordered to be paid, together with costs, under such
conviction, or receives a remission thereof from, the Crown
or from the Governor, or suffers the imprisonment awarded
for non-payment thereof or the imprisonment,ordered in the
first instance, or is discharged from his conviction by any
magistrate as aforesaid, he shall be released from all further
or other proceedings fo tho same cause.

[s. 97, rep. No. 3 of 1911.]

Miscellancous.

98. Where any person is discharged on an indictment with
any offence punishable under this Ordinance and committed
after a previous conviction for any felony, misdemeanor, or
offence punishable on summary conviction, and, on his trial
for the second of such offences, such person gives evidence of
his good character, it shall be lawful for the Attorney Geneal,
in ansewer thereto and before the verdict of the jury has been

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923. given, to give evidence of the conviction of such person
for the first of such offences, and the jury shall unquire
concerning such previous convicted at the same time that
they inquire concerning the second of such offences.

[ss. 99 and 100, rep. No. 30 of 1911.]

101. -- (1) Whenever any person is convicted of any
indictable misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance,
the court may, in addition to or in lieu of any of the
punishments authorised by this Ordinance, fine the offender,
and require him to enter into his own recognizances and to
find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace and
being of good behaviour.

(2) In the case of any felony punishable under this
Ordinance, the court may require the offender to enter into
his own recognizances, and to find sureties, both or either,
for keeping the peace, in addition to any punishment
authorised by his Ordinance.

(3) No person shall be imprisoned under this section for
not finding sureties for any term exceeding one year.

[s. 102, rep. No. 50 of 1991.]
[Originally No. 7 of 1865. No. 17 of 1919. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96. Interpretation. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 1. All larcenies to be of the same nature. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 2. Fraudulent conversion of property of bailee. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 3. Simple larceny. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 4. Power to order flogging of juvenile male offenders. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after conviction for felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 5. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after conviction of indictable misdemeanor under the Ordinance. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 7. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after two summary convictions. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 9. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing horse, bull, ram, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 10. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing goat, boar, etc. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Killing animal with intent to steal carcase. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 11. Stealing dog. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 18. Possession of stolen god. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 19. Taking money to restore dog. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 20. Stealing beast or bird ordinarily kept in confinement. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 21. Punishment of person found in possession of stolen bird, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 22. Killing house-dove or pigeon. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 23. Stealing valuable security. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 27. Stealing document of title to lands. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 28. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing will. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 29. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing record or other legal document. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 30. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing metal, glass, wood, etc., fixed to building or land. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 31. Stealing tree, etc., growing in pleasure ground or elsewhere. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 32. Stealing small tree, etc., wherever growing. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 33. Stealing live or dead fence, etc., 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 34. Suspected person in possession of tree, and not accounting for it. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 35. Stealing plant, etc., growing in garden, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 36. Stealing cultivated plant, etc., not growing in garden. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 37. Stealing electricity. [see s. 5 and cf. 45 & 46 Vict.c. 56, s. 23.] Robbery or stealing from the person. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 40. [cf. No. 3 of 1890, s. 85 & No. 3 of 1903.] Assault with intent to rob. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 12. Robbery or assault by person armed, or by two or more, or robbery and wounding. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 43. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Sending letter demanding money with menances. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 44. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Demanding property with menaces with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 45. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Sending letter threatening to accuse of crime, with intent to extort. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 46. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Accusing or threatening to accuse of crim with intent to extort. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 47. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Inducing person by violence or threat or execute deed, etc., with intent to defraud. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96., s. 48. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Immaterial by whom violence etc. to be caused. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 49. Breaking and entering church, etc., and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 50. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Burglary by breaking out. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 51. Burglary. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 52. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Explanation as to building within curtilage. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 53. Entering dwelling-house at night with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s.54. Breaking into building not being part of dwelling-house, and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 55. [cf. No. 3 of 1903. Breaking into dwelling-house, etc., and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 56. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Breaking into dwelling-house, etc., with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 57. Being armed with intent to break and enter dwelling-house, at night. 24& 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 58. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Conviction under s. 46 after previous conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 59. Stealing in dwelling-house. 24 & 25 vict.c. 96, s. 60. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing in dwelling-house with menance. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 61. Stealing from vessel, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 63. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Plundering ship in distress, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 64. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Person in possession of shipwrecked goods not satisfactorily accounting. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 95, s. 65. Power to seize ship-wrecked goods offered for sale. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 66. Larceny by clerk or servant. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 67. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Embezzlement by clerk or servant. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 68. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing or embezzlement by partner of partnership property. 31 & 32 Vict.c. 116, s. 1. Larceny by person in public service or in police force. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 69. Embezzlement by person in public service or in police force. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 70. Form of warrant, etc., under ss. 57 and 58. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 70. Person indicted for embezzlement as clerk, etc., not to be acquitted if offence turns out to be larceny; and vice versa. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 72. Stealing by tenant or lodger of chattel or fixture let with house or lodging. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 74. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Fraudulent misappropriation of property. 1 Edw. 7, c. 10, s. 1. Fraudulent conversion of property entrusted for sale. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 77. Fraudulent pledging by factor of goods entrusted. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 78. Explanation of terms as to offences by factors or agents. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 79. Fraudulent disposition of property by trustee. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 80. Fraudulent appropriation by director, etc., of property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 81. Keeping by director, etc., of fraudulent accounts. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 82. Fraudulent destruction by director, etc., of documents. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 83. Making, by director, etc., of false and fraudulent statement. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 84. Exemption from liability to prosecution under ss. 62-71 for compulsory disclosure. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 85. Saving of remedies at law and in equity. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 86. Falsification of book, etc., by clerk, etc., with intent to defraud. 38 & 39 Vict.c. 24, ss. 1, 2. Obtaining chattel, etc., by false pretence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 88. Where property delivered to person not making false pretence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 89. Causing person by fraud to execute deed. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 90. Personation in order to obtain property. 37 & 38 Vict.c. 36, ss. 1, 2. Receiving stolen property where principal is guilty of felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 91. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42, and No. 3 of 1903.] Receipt or possession of property stolen abroad. 59 & 60 Vict.c. 5, s. 1. Indictment for stealing and receiving. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 92. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Inclusion of separate receivers in same indictment in absence of principal. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 93. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Persons jointly receiving may be convicted sepeartely. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 94. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Receiving where principal has been guilty of misdemeanor. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 95. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42, and No. 3 of 1903.] Receiving where principal is punishable on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 97. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Punishment of principals in second degree, accessories, and abettors. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 98. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Abettors in offences punishable on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 99. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Right of owner of stolen property prosecuting thief or receiver to conviction to have restitution of his property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 100. Taking reward for helping to recover stolen property without bringing offender to trial. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 101. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Advertising reward for return of stolen or lost property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 102. Power to apprehend without warrant person found committing offence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 103. Apprehension of person loitering at night and suspected of felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 104. Application of forfeiture or penalty on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 106. First offenders. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 108. Summary conviction to bar any other proceeding for the same cause. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 99, s. 109. Evidence of good character on trial for second or subsequent offence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 116. Fine and sureties for keeping the peace. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 117.

[Originally No. 7 of 1865. No. 17 of 1919. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96. Interpretation. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 1. All larcenies to be of the same nature. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 2. Fraudulent conversion of property of bailee. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 3. Simple larceny. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 4. Power to order flogging of juvenile male offenders. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after conviction for felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 5. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after conviction of indictable misdemeanor under the Ordinance. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 7. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Larceny after two summary convictions. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 9. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing horse, bull, ram, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 10. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing goat, boar, etc. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Killing animal with intent to steal carcase. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 11. Stealing dog. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 18. Possession of stolen god. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 19. Taking money to restore dog. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 20. Stealing beast or bird ordinarily kept in confinement. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 21. Punishment of person found in possession of stolen bird, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 22. Killing house-dove or pigeon. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 23. Stealing valuable security. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 27. Stealing document of title to lands. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 28. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing will. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 29. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing record or other legal document. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 30. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing metal, glass, wood, etc., fixed to building or land. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 31. Stealing tree, etc., growing in pleasure ground or elsewhere. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 32. Stealing small tree, etc., wherever growing. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 33. Stealing live or dead fence, etc., 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 34. Suspected person in possession of tree, and not accounting for it. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 35. Stealing plant, etc., growing in garden, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 36. Stealing cultivated plant, etc., not growing in garden. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 37. Stealing electricity. [see s. 5 and cf. 45 & 46 Vict.c. 56, s. 23.] Robbery or stealing from the person. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 40. [cf. No. 3 of 1890, s. 85 & No. 3 of 1903.] Assault with intent to rob. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 12. Robbery or assault by person armed, or by two or more, or robbery and wounding. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 43. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Sending letter demanding money with menances. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 44. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Demanding property with menaces with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 45. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Sending letter threatening to accuse of crime, with intent to extort. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 46. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Accusing or threatening to accuse of crim with intent to extort. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 47. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Inducing person by violence or threat or execute deed, etc., with intent to defraud. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96., s. 48. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Immaterial by whom violence etc. to be caused. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 49. Breaking and entering church, etc., and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 50. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Burglary by breaking out. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 51. Burglary. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 52. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Explanation as to building within curtilage. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 53. Entering dwelling-house at night with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s.54. Breaking into building not being part of dwelling-house, and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 55. [cf. No. 3 of 1903. Breaking into dwelling-house, etc., and committing felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 56. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Breaking into dwelling-house, etc., with intent. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 57. Being armed with intent to break and enter dwelling-house, at night. 24& 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 58. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Conviction under s. 46 after previous conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 59. Stealing in dwelling-house. 24 & 25 vict.c. 96, s. 60. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing in dwelling-house with menance. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 61. Stealing from vessel, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 63. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Plundering ship in distress, etc. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 64. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Person in possession of shipwrecked goods not satisfactorily accounting. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 95, s. 65. Power to seize ship-wrecked goods offered for sale. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 66. Larceny by clerk or servant. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 67. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Embezzlement by clerk or servant. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 68. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Stealing or embezzlement by partner of partnership property. 31 & 32 Vict.c. 116, s. 1. Larceny by person in public service or in police force. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 69. Embezzlement by person in public service or in police force. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 70. Form of warrant, etc., under ss. 57 and 58. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 70. Person indicted for embezzlement as clerk, etc., not to be acquitted if offence turns out to be larceny; and vice versa. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 72. Stealing by tenant or lodger of chattel or fixture let with house or lodging. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 74. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Fraudulent misappropriation of property. 1 Edw. 7, c. 10, s. 1. Fraudulent conversion of property entrusted for sale. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 77. Fraudulent pledging by factor of goods entrusted. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 78. Explanation of terms as to offences by factors or agents. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 79. Fraudulent disposition of property by trustee. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 80. Fraudulent appropriation by director, etc., of property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 81. Keeping by director, etc., of fraudulent accounts. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 82. Fraudulent destruction by director, etc., of documents. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 83. Making, by director, etc., of false and fraudulent statement. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 84. Exemption from liability to prosecution under ss. 62-71 for compulsory disclosure. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 85. Saving of remedies at law and in equity. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 86. Falsification of book, etc., by clerk, etc., with intent to defraud. 38 & 39 Vict.c. 24, ss. 1, 2. Obtaining chattel, etc., by false pretence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 88. Where property delivered to person not making false pretence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 89. Causing person by fraud to execute deed. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 90. Personation in order to obtain property. 37 & 38 Vict.c. 36, ss. 1, 2. Receiving stolen property where principal is guilty of felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 91. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42, and No. 3 of 1903.] Receipt or possession of property stolen abroad. 59 & 60 Vict.c. 5, s. 1. Indictment for stealing and receiving. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 92. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Inclusion of separate receivers in same indictment in absence of principal. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 93. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Persons jointly receiving may be convicted sepeartely. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 94. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Receiving where principal has been guilty of misdemeanor. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 95. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42, and No. 3 of 1903.] Receiving where principal is punishable on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 97. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Punishment of principals in second degree, accessories, and abettors. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 98. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Abettors in offences punishable on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 99. [cf. No. 6 of 1900, s. 42.] Right of owner of stolen property prosecuting thief or receiver to conviction to have restitution of his property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 100. Taking reward for helping to recover stolen property without bringing offender to trial. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 101. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] Advertising reward for return of stolen or lost property. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 102. Power to apprehend without warrant person found committing offence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 103. Apprehension of person loitering at night and suspected of felony. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 104. Application of forfeiture or penalty on summary conviction. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 106. First offenders. 24 & 25 Vict.c.96, s. 108. Summary conviction to bar any other proceeding for the same cause. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 99, s. 109. Evidence of good character on trial for second or subsequent offence. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 116. Fine and sureties for keeping the peace. 24 & 25 Vict.c. 96, s. 117.

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