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ORDINANCE No. 7 OF 1865.

Larcenies, &c.

or right to any property, or giving a right to recover or receive any money or goods, and shall also include not only such property as shall have been originally in the possession or under the control of any party, but also any property into or for which the same may have been converted or exchanged, and any thing acquired by such conversion or exchange, whether immediately or otherwise. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the night shall be deemed to commence at nine of the clock in the evening of each day, and to conclude at six of the clock in the morning of the next succeeding day.

2. Every larceny, whatever be the value of the property stolen, shall be deemed to be of the same nature, and shall be subject to the same incidents in all respects as grand larceny was by the Law of England before the twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

"Night:"

803

All larcenics

to be of the same nature.

Bailees frand- ulently converting property

3. Whosoever being a bailee of any chattel, money, or valuable security, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the owner thereof, although he shall not guilty of break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment, shall be guilty of larceny, and

may be convicted thereof upon an information for larceny.

larceny.

for simple

larceny.

4. Whosoever shall be convicted of simple larceny, or of any felony Punishment hereby made punishable like simple larceny, shall (except in the cases hereinafter otherwise provided for) be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of 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.

Larceny after a conviction

5. Whosoever shall commit the offence of simple larceny after a previous conviction for felony shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, for felony. to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years and 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.

6. Whosoever shall commit the offence of simple larceny, or any offence hereby made punishable like simple larceny, after having been

Larceny after conviction of an indictable