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No. 5 of 1865.
Stealing beast or bird ordinarily kept in confinement.
LARCENY.
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 afterwards guilty of any offence under this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 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.
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 thereof, is so found (such person knowing that the bird, beast, or animal has been stolen, or that the plumage is the plumage of a 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 circumstances as do not amount to larceny at common law in England shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine,
*As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.
† As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923, and Law Am. Ord., 1923,
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