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shall have such and the like Powers and Authorities for the Trial of all such Murders, Treasons, Piracies, Felonies, Conspiracies, and other Offences, within any such Islands, Plantations, Colonies, Dominions, Forts, or Factories, as any Commissioners appointed or to be appointed according to the Directions of the Statute of the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, (1) by any Law or Laws now in force, have or would have for the Trial of the said Offences within this Realm;" and that "by an Act made in the Fifty-first Year of His Majesty's Reign, [51 Geo. 3. c. 23. See page 941 of this Work], the carrying away or removing from any Part of Africa of any person or persons whatsoever as a Slave or Slaves, and the wilfully shipping, embarking, receiving, detaining, or confining on board any Ship, Vessel,or Boat, any person or persons for the purpose of his or their being so carried away or removed, and divers other Offences against that Act and other Acts for abolishing the Slave Trade, are declared respectively to be Felonies and Misdemeanors, and the Offenders, their Aiders and Abettors, are respectively made liable to such Pains, Penalties, and Forfeitures, as are therein mentioned and provided; but the Provisions thereby made for the Trial of such Felonies and Misdemeanors, when committed by British Subjects in Africa, have been found to be inconvenient and ineffectual;" and that "by an Act made in the Fifty eighth Year of his Majesty's Reign, [58 Geo. 3. c. 98. See page 948 of this Work], it is enacted, that all Offences declared by the said Act of the Fifty-first Year of his Majesty's Reign to be Felonies or Misdemeanors, committed or which shall be committed on the High Seas, or in any Port, Sea, Creek, or Place where the Admiral has Jurisdiction, may be inquired of, tried, and determined under and by virtue of any Commission already issued, or hereafter to be issued, according to the Directions of the said recited Act of the Forty-sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign;" and that "Offences which by the said recited Act of the Fifty-first Year of his Majesty's Reign, are declared to be Felonies or Misdemeanors, have been or may be committed by British Subjects in Africa, either on Shore or in Rivers, or other Places where the Admiral has no Jurisdiction, and it may be impossible in such Cases to bring the Offenders to Justice under any of the said recited Acts, or any other Laws now in being, without great Inconvenience, Expence, and Delay;" and then enacts, that each and every Offence declared by the said

(1) 28 H. 8. c. 15., which see under Title PIRACY, I. § 1.

Offences de

clared by the

felonies or misdemeanors, com

Act of the Fifty-first Year of his Majesty's Reign to be a Felony 51 G. 3. c. 23. or Misdemeanor, committed or which shall be committed by any Subject or Subjects of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, in mitted by any of Africa, or in any of the Rivers, Ports, or Harbours thereof, not his Majesty's being a Place where the Admiral has Jurisdiction, and not being subjects in Africa, not being within the Local Jurisdiction of any Ordinary Court of a British within the juris- Colony or Settlement in Africa competent to try such Offence, may be inquired of, tried, and determined under and by virtue of any Commission already issued, or hereafter to be issued, according to the Directions of the said recited Act of the Fortysixth Year of his Majesty's Reign.

diction of an admiral, &c. may be tried by commission, agreeably to

46 G. 3. c. 54.

INDEX

TO THE

GENERAL MATTER.

The Words in Italics denote the same Titles in this Volume. At the Head of most of those Titles in the Work will be found an Epitome of their Contents.

Abduction of Women

Abjuration, Oath of

Administering Poison, &c. to Women

A.

Page

756, 757. 1176. 1178

- 647

1178, 1179

Africa, Trial of Offences relating to the Slave Trade committed in

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all Appeals of Murder, Treason, Felony, or other Offences, abolished Apprehending Offenders, shooting at, cutting, or stabbing, with

intent to prevent

596, 597 976-978

1222. Appendix.

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. 1216

Apprentices enlisting into Forces

Arsenals, burning, &c.

Army Agents, Regulation of

Articles of the Navy

Artificer, seducing to leave the Kingdom

923

982, 983

609-626

581, 582.590

Abroad

voluntarily leaving the Kingdom to exercise his Trade

593

Assaults, on Officers of the Navy, Customs, or Excise
Avenue, Trees planted in, cutting down, &c.

815, 816. 819

1179

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Brass, receiving

763

Bribery, relating to the Election of Members of Parliament, 677-681

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785

925, 926

927

committed at Honduras, Trial of

Burglary, receiving certain Goods stolen by

Burning any Mill, House, Granary, Barn, Hop Oast, Malthouse,

Stable, Coach House, Outhouse, Warehouse, or Shop

Woods, Underwoods, or Coppices

766

1216

598

1180

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Cables, injuring

-- unlawfully receiving

Canals, Venue in Indictments for Felony committed on
Carriages, Venue in Indictments for Felony committed on

Church and Sacrament, not attending

maintaining others so offending

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925-927

983, 984

Cinque Ports, Offences against the Safety of Vessels within the

Jurisdiction of

Civil Officers, liable to the Mutiny Acts

Coaches, Venue in Indictments for Felony committed on

1094 600, 601

Coal Mines, setting fire to or drowning

Colonies

Commissaries, Embezzlement of Stores by

liable to Mutiny Acts

Common Prayer, derogating from the Book of

Commerce, Public Subscriptions injurious to

Commonable Ground, damaging Trees growing in
Concealment of High Treason shall be only Misprision
Confederacies on the Sea

Conjuration, no Person shall be proceeded against for
pretending to the Practice of, how punishable

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- 1079

763

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798-833 833-839

Customs, Regulations for preventing Frauds on the Revenue of

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811, 812. 819. 824-826

1192

596

D.

Debts by Soldiers

Deserters, harbouring, &c.

may be transported

persuading Soldiers to desert

Disguise, Persons in, obstructing Service of Process in

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- 979

986. 1002

953, 997

988, 989

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Dissenters, relieved from certain Penalties and Disabilities 787-798 Dock-yards, burning, &c.

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595

East India Company, Officers of, may sit on Courts-martial in

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Enchantment, no Person shall be proceeded against for

pretending to the Practice of, how punishable

Enlisting into Foreign Service

Excise, (Revenue of) Forgeries relating to

Perjuries relating to

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980

- 981

- 1079

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Regulations for preventing Frauds on the Revenue of 798-833

Assaults on, Obstructions to, or shooting at, maim

ing, or wounding Officers of Customs and Excise

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