Larceny.
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twenty-five cents at the least, shall on summary conviction, be liable to a fine, over and above the value of the article stolen or the amount of the injury done, of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
(2) Any person who having been convicted of any such offence, either against this or any former Ordinance, afterwards commits any offence against this section, shall upon conviction thereof in like manner be liable to imprisonment for six months.
18. (1) Any person who steals, cuts, breaks, or throws down with intent to steal, any part of any live or dead fence, or any wooden post, pale, wire, or rail set up or used as a fence, or any stile or gate, or any part thereof respectively, shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and above the value of the article stolen or the amount of the injury done, of one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
(2) Any person who, having been convicted of any such offence, either against this or any former Ordinance, afterwards commits any offence against this section shall on conviction thereof in like manner be liable to imprisonment for six months.
Schedule.
Larceny, etc., of live or dead fence, etc.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 34.
person in possession of tree etc., and not accounting for it.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 35.
19. If the whole or any part of any tree, sapling, bamboo, shrub, or underwood, or any part of any live or dead fence, or any post, pale, wire, rail, stile, or gate, or any part thereof, being of the value of twenty-five cents at the least, is found in the possession of any person, or on the premises of any person, with his knowledge, and such person, being taken or summoned before a magistrate, does not satisfy him that he came lawfully by the same, he shall be liable to a fine, over and above the value of the article so found, of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.
Schedule.
Larceny, etc., of plant, etc., growing in garden, etc.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 36.
20. Any person who steals, or, with intent to steal, destroys or damages any plant, root, fruit, or vegetable production growing in any garden, orchard, pleasure ground, nursery-ground, hothouse, greenhouse or conservatory shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and above the value of the article stolen or the amount of the injury done, of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
Schedule.
22 of 1950,
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