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No. 5 of 1865.
LARCENY.
property.
c. 96, s. 100.
property shall be restored to the owner or his representative; 24 & 25 Vict. 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 bonâ fide paid or discharged by some person liable to the payment thereof, or, being a negotiable instrument, has been bona fide taken or received by transfer or delivery, by some person for a just and valuable consideration, without any notice or without any reasonable cause to suspect that the same had by any felony or misdemeanor 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 case of any prosecution of any banker, merchant, attorney, factor, broker, or other agent, or of any trustee, entrusted with the possession of any goods or of any document of title to goods for any misdemeanor against this Ordinance.
Taking reward for helping to recover bringing offender to trial.
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 property without 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.
24 & 25 Vict. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.]
Advertising reward for return of stolen or lost property.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 102.
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 questions 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.