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thereby to enable such Offender or other Person to commit, or with Intent to assist such Offender or other Person in committing any Felony, every such Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported for Life or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Three Years.
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Persons inflicting IV. And whereas it is expedient to make further Provision for the Punishment of
grievous bodily aggravated Assaults: Be it enacted, That if any Person shall unlawfully and malici- Harm guilty of a ously inflict upon any other Person, either with or without any Weapon or Instru- Misdemeanor and ment, any grievous bodily Harm, or unlawfully and maliciously cut, stab, or wound liable any other Person, every such Offender shall be guilty of a Misdemeanor, and Years Imprison- being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Three Years: Provided however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to Not to repeal Sect. repeal the Provisions of the Twenty-ninth Section of the Act passed in the Tenth 29. of 10 Geo. 4. Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Thirty-four.
On the Trial of V. If upon the Trial of any Indictment for any Felony, except Murder or Man-
any Indictment for slaughter, where the Indictment shall allege that the Defendant did cut, stab, or
feloniously cut- wound any Person, the Jury shall be satisfied that the Defendant is guilty of the cut- ting, &c. the Jury ing, stabbing, or wounding charged in such Indictment, but are not satisfied that De- may acquit of the fendant is guilty of the Felony charged in such Indictment, then and in every such Case Felony, and con- the Jury may acquit the Defendant of such Felony, and find him guilty of unlawfully vict of unlawfully cutting, stabbing, or wounding, and thereupon such Defendant shall be liable to be cutting, &c. punished in the same Manner as if he had been convicted upon an Indictment for the Misdemeanor of cutting, stabbing, or wounding.
Persons wilfully
VI. If any Person shall wilfully and maliciously put, place, cast, or throw upon or across any Railway, any Wood, Stone, or other Matter or Thing, or shall wilfully placing Wood, &c., on Railways, tak- and maliciously take up, remove, or displace any Rail, Sleeper, or other Matter or ing up Rails, &c., Thing belonging to any Railway, or shall wilfully and maliciously turn, move, or turning Machinery, divert any Points or other Machinery belonging to any Railway, or shall wilfully and or showing Signals, maliciously make or show, hide or remove, any Signal or Light upon or near to any &c., with Intent to commit Injuries to Railway, or shall wilfully and maliciously do or cause to be done any other Matter or Railway or endan Thing, with Intent, in any of the Cases aforesaid, to obstruct, upset, overthrow, in- ger the Safety of jure, or destroy any Engine, Tender, Carriage, or Truck using such Railway, or to Persous, guilty of endanger the Safety of any Person travelling or being upon such Railway, every.such Felony. Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his natur- al Life or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or with- out Hard Labour, for any Term not exceeding Three Years.
VII. If any Person shall wilfully and maliciously cast, throw, or cause to fall or If any Person shall cast any Wood,&c. strike against, into, or upon any Engine, Tender, Carriage, or Truck used upon any Railway, any Wood, Stone or other Matter or Thing, with Intent to endanger the Safety "pon any Railway Carriage with In- of any Person being in or upon such Engine, Tender, Carriage, or Truck, every such tent to endanger Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the the Safety of any Person therein, Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of his na-
such Person to be tural Life or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or
guilty of Felony, without Hard Ladour, for any Term not exceeding Three Years.
VIII, If any Person shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to any Station, Engine Any Person wil- House, Warehouse, or other Building belonging or appertaining to any Railway, Dock, fully setting fire to Canal, or other Navigation, every such Person shall be guilty of Felony, and being any Railway Sta- convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported be- tion, &c. guilty of
Felony. yond the Seas for the Term of his natural Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not ex- ceeding Three Years; and if any Person shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to any Goods or Chattels being in any Building, the setting fire to which is made Felony by this or any other Act of Parliament, every such Offender shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Ten Years nor less than Seven Years, or to be imprisoned, with or without Hard Labour, for any Term not ex- ceeding Three Years.
Upon the Trial of IX. And whereas Provision is made in a certain Act of Parliament passed in the persons for subse- Twelfth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria intituled, An Act quent Offences au- to amend the Laws in England and Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences con- der the 12 & 13 nected therewith; and also in this Act, for the more exemplary Punishment of Persons Vict. c. 11. and this Act the pre- who shall commit certain Offences after One or more previous Conviction or Convic- vious Conviction tions for the like or other Offences, and it is expedient to define the Time of charging the not to be stated to Jury to inquire as to such previous Conviction or Convictions: Be it enacted, That it the Jury or give