No indictment, e. for words

2 calendar

months.

s. 1. Ir.

s. 2.

penalties or disabilities inflicted against any persons who contract, celebrate, or are present at any clandestine marriage, by virtue of any of the laws or statutes now in force.

P. 919. l. 16. With respect to criminal prosecutions spoken, unless for words, the 2 Geo. 1. c. 20. Ir. provides (s. 1.) that no information in person shall be prosecuted for any words that shall be spoken, by indictment or information, unless information 2 Geo. 1. c.20. of speaking such words be given upon oath before a justice of peace of the county, &c. where such words shall be spoken, within a calendar month, or before one of the judges of his majesty's court of chief place, within 2 calendar months after the words are spoken. And by s. 2. upon such information, if the case shall require it, the chief justice, or other judge of the king's bench, or such justice of peace, shall issue his warrant for apprehending and bringing the person so accused before him, or some other of his majesty's justices of peace of the county, &c. where such words shall have been so spoken; and the chief justice, &c. before whom he shall be so brought, shall oblige him to appear the next term, assizes, or sessions, which shall be held for the county, &c. where such words shall be spoken, in order to his trial.

Warrant there

upon.

5 Eliz. C. 10. Eng.

P. 923. l. 25.-The 5 Eliz. c. 10. Eng. should have been referred to as specially reviving the 21 Hen. 8. c. 7. Revival of 21 Eng. which was repealed by the 1 Mar. st. 1. c. 1. Eng. (amongst the other statutes creating felonies, which were passed after the first year of the reign of king Henry VIII).

Hen. 8. c. 7.

51Geo. 3. c.38.

1.

Servants or

clerks secreting

money, &c. of

their masters or employers, how punished.

P. 924. 1.33.-The 51 Geo. 3. c. 38. I. enacts, with respect to Ireland, (in a manner nearly corresponding to the 39 Geo. 3. c. 85. Eng.) that if any servant or clerk, or any person employed for the purpose or in the capacity of a servant or clerk, to any person or body corporate, shall, by virtue of such employment, receive or take into his possession, any money, goods, bond, bill, note, banker's draft, cr other valuable security or effects, for or in the name or on the account of his master or employer, and shall fraudulently secrete or make away with the same, or any part thereof, such offender shall be deemed guilty

of

of a misdemeanor, and to have embezzled the same from his said master or employer, for whose use, or in whose name, or on whose account, the same was delivered to or taken into the possession of such servant, &c. although such money, &c. was no otherwise received into the possession of such master, &c. than by delivery into the actual possession of his servant, &c. for the use of his master; and every such offender shall be liable to be transported to such parts beyond the seas, as his majesty, with the advice of his privy council, shall appoint, for any term not exceeding fourteen years, in the discretion of the court before whom such offender shall be convicted or adjudged.

money, ember

P. 930. l. 36.-By the 50 Geo. 3. c. 59. U. K. if any 50 Geo.5.c. 59. person to whom any money or securities for money shall U. K. be issued for public services, shall embezzle such money, Persons entrustor in any manner fraudulently apply the same to his own ed with public use or benefit, or for any purpose whatever, except for zling the same, how punished. public services, every such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be transported beyond the sea, or receive such other punishment as may by law be inflicted on persons guilty of misdemeanors, and as the court shall adjudge. And if any such officer, collector, or receiver, entrusted with the receipt, custody, or manage ment of any part of the public revenues, shall knowingly furnish false statements or returns of the sums of money collected by him, or entrusted to his care, or of the balances of money in his hands, or under his control, such officer, &c. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be adjudged to suffer the punishment of fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, and be rendered for ever incapable of holding any office under the

crown.

Collectors, &'c. making false ro turns also punishable.

3 Geo. 2. c. 4.

P. 955. l. 7.-The 3 Gco. 2. c. 4. Ir. enacts, (s. 3.) that if any person shall steal or take by robbery any exche- . 3. ir. quer acquittance, debenture, bills of exchange, gold- Felory to sten! smiths' or bankers' notes for payment of money, bonds, warrants, bills, or promissory notes for the payment of ind over closes money, being the property of any other person, or of any ' corporation, (notwithstanding any of said particulars are

gallancer, &c.

in action

49Geo.3.c.122.

s. 12. E.

Cutting away,

c. boys, how punished.

s. 13.

Persons pur

chasing, &c. anchors, &c. when punished as

receivers of stolen goods.

termed in law a chose in action) it shall be deemed to be
felony of the same nature and degree, and with or with-
out benefit of clergy or of the statute, as if the offender
had stolen or taken by robbery any other goods of like
value with the money due on such exchequer acquit-
tance, &c. or secured thereby, and remaining unsatisfied.
P. 961. l. 2.-By the 49 Geo. 3. c. 122. s. 12. E. &c.
if any person shall wilfully cut away, cast adrift, re-
move, alter, deface, sink or destroy, or shall do or com-
mit any act, with intent and design to cut away, &c. or
in any other way injure or conceal any buoy, buoy-rope,
or mark belonging to any ship or vessel, or which may
be attached to any anchor or cable belonging to any ship,
&c. whether in distress or otherwise, such offender shall
be guilty of felony, and be liable to be transported for
any term not exceeding 7 years, or, in mitigation of
such punishment, to be imprisoned for any number of
years, at the discretion of the court in which the convic-
tion shall be made. And by s. 13. if any person shall
knowingly and wilfully, and with intent to defraud and
injure the true owner thereof, or any person interested
therein, purchase or receive any anchors, cables, or goods
or merchandize, which may have been taken up, weighed,
swept for, or taken possession of, whether the same shall
have belonged to any ship, &c. in distress, or otherwise,
or whether the same shali have been preserved from any
wreck, if the directions herein-before contained with
regard to such articles, shall not have been previously
complied with, such person shall be deemed guilty of
receiving stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen,
as if the same had been stolen on shore, and suffer the
like punishment as for a misdemeanor at common law, or
be liable to be transported for 7 years, at the discretion
of the court before which he shall be tried.

* This refers to s. 1. which requires a particular report in writing to be made of the time and place when and where any anchors, &c. were found, to the deputy vice admiral, or his agent, and all such articles to be delivered into a proper warehouse or place, (to be appointed by the vice admiral of each county,) within 48 hours after arrival at any port or place, or before leaving the port, if such person shall quit it before that time shall expire, upon pain of being deemed guilty of receiving goods knowing them to be stolen.

P. 969

12 Ann. st. 2.

P. 969. l. 12.-The 49 Gen. 3. c. 122. E. &c. enacts, 49Geo.3. c 122 (s. 32.) that all the means which, by virtue of the 12 Ann. S. 52. E. &c. st. 2.c. 18. Eng. subsist, and may be by law applied for the Provisions of the conclusively adjusting, and for the recovering of the 18. respecting monies or gratuities to be paid to the several persons the adjustment of salvage, acting or being employed in the salvage of any ship, &c, amended. or the materials or stores belonging thereto, or goods, in cases where application shall have been first made, pursuant to said act, to officers of customs, or other officers in that behalf mentioned, and assistance shall have been thereupon had in pursuance of said act, shall be available in like manner in cases where the salvors shall have acted under and by authority of any magistrate, or of the commander or other superior officers, mariners, or owners of any ship, &c. in distress, though no such application shall have been made to, nor any authority or assistance derived from, any officers of customs, &c. and thereupon, upon payment, or tender and refusa!, of the quantum of the monies or gratuities to be paid to the several persons who shall have acted or been employed in such salvage; or in case such payment, &c. cannot be made, on security being given for the true payment thereof, to the satisfaction of the justices who shall have adjusted such quantum or gratuities, it shall not be lawful for any officer of the customs, or other person having the cust dy of such ship, &c. any longer to retain the possession of the same, by reason of any claim for salvage.

P. 987. l. 33.-The 51 Geo. 3. c. 41. G. B. recites and 51 Geo.3. c.4 G. B. repeals the first section of the 18 Geo. 2. c. 27. Eng. and enacts, that any person who shall be guilty of any such Larceny in bleaching offence as therein and herein enumerated, shall (instead grounds, &c. of suffering death, as in cases of felony without benefit how punished. of clergy) be liable to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for such term, not less than 7 years, as the judge before whom such person shall be convicted shall adjudge; or shall be liable, in case the said judge shall think fit, to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol, house of correction, or penitentiary house, for any term not exceeding 7 years.

P. 998.

51 Geo.3. c 39.

I.

O'r.

yard, c. how

punished.

P. 988. l. 1.—The 51 Geo. 3. c. 39. I. recites and re

peals the 77th section of the 3 Geo. 3. c. 34. Ir. (vide p. Stealing linen, 987.) and enacts, that every person who shall be conbr. from bleach victed, according to the law and statutes of Ireland, of such offences as therein and herein enumerated, shall, (instead of suffering death without benefit of clergy) be liable to be transported beyond seas for life, or for such term, not less than 7 years, as the judge before whom such person shall be convicted shall adjudge; or shall be liable, in case the judge shall think fit, to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the common gaol, house of correction, or penitentiary house, for any term not exceeding 7 years.

1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 48. s. 4. Eug.

Maliciously burning wood,

P. 1007. l. 29.—By the 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 48. s. 4. Eng. if any person shail maliciously set on fire, or burn, or cause to be burned, any wood, underwood, or copc. a felony. pice, or any part thereof, such malicious setting on fire, &c. shall be felony; and such offender shall suffer the penalties of felony; and where such offences are committed in Scotland, the offenders shall suffer as wilful fire-raisers, according to the 7 Ann. c. 21.

49 Geo. S.c, 13. 1.

P. 1029. l. 19.-The 23 & 24 Geo. 3. c. 30. s. 8. Ir. which is stated (p. 642.) under the head of riot, should have been here referred to.

P. 1056. l. 4. to 14. The 49 Geo. 3. c. 13. I. recites and repeals the 5th section of the 38 Geo. 3. c. 53. Ir. except as to offences committed before the expiration of Purchasing or receiving forged 10 days after the passing of this act, (20th March 1809); notes, &c. of bank of Ireland, and enacts, that if any person shall, after the expiration punishable with of said 10 days, purchase or receive from any other transportation. person any forged or counterfeited bank note, bank bill of exchange, bank post bill, or blank bank note, blank bank bill of exchange, or blank bank post bill, of the bank of Ireland, knowing the same to be forged, &c.; or shall knowingly or wittingly have in his possession or custody, or in his dwelling house, out-house, lodgings or apartments, any such forged or counterfeited note, &c. knowing the same to be forged, &c. without lawful excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon the person ac cused, every such offender shall be adjudged a felon, and be transported for 14 years.

P. 1075.