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ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1865.

Larceny, &c.

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not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement.

34. Whosoever shall send, deliver, or utter, or directly or indirectly cause to be received, knowing the contents thereof, any letter or writing accusing or threatening to accuse any other person of any crime punishable by law with death or penal servitude for not less than seven years, or of any assault with intent to commit any rape, or of any attempt or endeavour to commit any rape, or of any infamous crime as herein after defined, with a view or intent in any of such cases to extort or gain by means of such letter or writing any property, chattel, money, valuable security, or other valuable thing, from any person, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping; and the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with beast, and every assault with intent to commit the said abominable crime, and every attempt or endeavour to commit the said abominable crime, and every solicitation, persuasion, promise, or threat offered or made to any person whereby to move or induce such person to commit or permit the said abominable crime, shall be deemed to be an infamous crime within the meaning of this Ordinance.

Letter threatening to accuse of intent to crime, with intent to extort.

[See Ord. No. 16 of 1887.]

"Infamous crime" defined.

threatening to accuse, with intent to extort. [See Ord. No. 16 of 1887.]

35. Whosoever shall accuse or threaten to accuse, either the person accused or to whom such accusation or threat shall be made or any other person, of any of the infamous or other crimes lastly herein before mentioned, with the view or intent in any of the cases last aforesaid, to extort or gain from such person so accused or threatened to be accused, or from any other person, any property, chattel, money, valuable security, or other valuable thing, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

36. Whosoever, with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall by any unlawful violence to or restraint of, or threat of violence to or restraint of any person, induce or attempt to induce any person to execute, make, accept, endorse, alter, or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security, or to write, impress, or affix any name or seal upon or to any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into or used or dealt with as a valuable security, shall be guilty of felony.

Inducing a person by violence or threat to execute a valuable security.