not exceeding Fifty dollars.
All cases of conspiracy or Combination among articans or Workmen, relating to their Employ or Work.
All cases of riotous Assemblage with intent to injure any house, Place, or Furniture or any Person whatsoever.
And all attempts or endeavours to commit any of the crimes or offences above enumerated.
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The power of punishment was however limited to months imprisonment with or without hard labour, or to a fine of Fifty Dollars, or to both fine and imprisonment within those limits.
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was a flogging law
and if the offender might also be whipped once or twice in public or in private if convicted of Larceny, Embezzlement, or uttering Counterfeit coin or of any Felony, or of receiving stolen property.
In 1858 by Ordinance No. 6 (New Series) the Crimes of Burglary, Housebreaking, breaking or entering a curtilage and stealing from the person, were added to the list; the limit of punishment remaining the same.
In 1862 it was determined to abolish the Court of Petty Sessions and the offices of Chief Magistrate and Assistant Magistrate and to substitute two Police Magistrates in their stead.