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9.--(1) If any such bird or any of the plumage thereof, Punishment or any dog, or any such beast, or the skin thereof, or any animal or any part thereof, is found in the possession or on the possession premises of any person, a magistrate may restore the same respectively to the owner thereof.

(2) Every person in whose possession or on whose pre- mises 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 con- viction be liable, for the first offence, to such fine, and for every subsequent offence, to such punishment as any person convicted of stealing any beast or bird is made liable to by section 8.

of stolen bird, etc.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, s. 22.

house-dove

10. Every person who unlawfully and wilfully kills, Killing wounds or takes any house-dove or pigeon in such circum- or pigeon. stances as do not amount to larceny at common law shall 24 & 25 upon summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and Vict. c. 96, above the value of the bird, not exceeding twenty-five dollars. s. 23.

11. Every person who unlawfully and wilfully takes or Taking fish. destroys any fish in any water which is private property shall 24 & 25 on summary conviction be liable to a fine, over and above the Vict. c. 96, value of the fish taken or destroyed, not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

12. Every person who unlawfully and wilfully-

of

s. 24.

etc., for

(a) uses any dredge, net, instrument or engine what- Dredging, soever, within the limits of any oyster bed, laying or fishery, oysters. being the property of any other person, for the purpose 24 & 25 taking oysters or oyster brood, although none shall actually Vict. c. 96, be taken; or

(b) drags with any net, instrument or engine upon the ground or soil of any such fishery,

shall on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

Larceny of written instruments.

S. 26.

24 & 25

13. (1) Every person who steals, or for any fraudulent Larceny, purpose destroys, cancels, obliterates or conceals, the whole etc., of wills.. or any part of any will, codicil or other testamentary instru- Vict. c. 96, ment, either of a dead or of a living person, shall be guilty of felony and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment 6 & 7 Geo. 5, for life.

s. 29.

c. 50, s. 6.

(2) Nothing in this section or in section 14, nor any pro- ceeding, conviction or judgment to be had or taken thereupon shall prevent, lessen or impeach any remedy at law or in equity which any party aggrieved by any such offence might or would have had if this Ordinance had not been passed; but no conviction of any such offender shall be received in evidence in any action against him.