Summary Offences.

to be framed any bill of parcels containing any false statement in regard to the name or abode of any alleged vendor, the quantity or quality of any such thing, the place whence or the conveyance by which the same was furnished, the price agreed upon or charged for the same or any other particular, knowing such statement to be false; or fraudulently produces such bill of parcels, knowing the same to have been fraudulently framed; (c) bores, pierces, breaks, cuts open or otherwise injures any cask, box or package containing wine, spirits or other liquors on board any ship, boat or vessel, or in or upon any warehouse, wharf, quay or bank, with intent feloniously to steal or otherwise unlawfully obtain any part of the contents thereof; or unlawfully or with intent to destroy evidence of any offence drinks or wilfully spills or allows to run to waste any part of the contents thereof; or

(d) wilfully causes to be broken, pierced, started, cut, torn or otherwise injured any cask, chest, bag or other package containing any goods, while on board of any barge, lighter or other craft, or at any quay, creek, wharf or landing-place adjacent to the same, or on the way to or from any warehouse, with intent that the contents of such package or any part thereof may be spilled or dropped from such package,

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shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for three months.

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land-mark.

15. Any person who without lawful authority or excuse removes or carries away any stone or stake driven into the ground as a land-mark or for the purpose of defining or marking the boundaries of any lot or parcel of ground, shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for three months.

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of offensive

16. Any person who has in his possession any spear, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, or any crowbar, picklock, skeleton-key or other instrument fit for unlawful purposes, with intent to use the same for any such unlawful purpose, or is unable to give satisfactory account of his

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