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Person loitering at night and suspected
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1865.
Larceny, &c.
Police Magistrate a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession or on his premises any property whatsoever on or with respect to which any offence, punishable either upon information or upon summary conviction by virtue of this Ordinance, shall have been committed, the Magistrate may grant a warrant to search for such property as in the case of stolen goods; and any person to whom any property shall be offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any such offence has been committed on or with respect to such property, is hereby authorized, and, if in his power, is required to apprehend and forthwith to take before a Police Magistrate the party offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.
87. Any constable or peace officer may take into custody, without a warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place, during the night, and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any felony in this Ordinance mentioned, and shall take such person, as soon as reasonably may be, before a Police Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
88. Where any person shall be charged on the oath or declaration of a credible witness before a Police Magistrate with any offence punishable on summary conviction under this Ordinance, the Magistrate may summon the person charged to appear at a time and place to be named in such summons, and if he shall not appear accordingly, then (upon proof of the due service of the summons upon such person, by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode,) the Magistrate may either proceed to hear and determine the case ex parte, or issue his warrant for apprehending such person, and bringing him before himself or some other Magistrate; or the Magistrate before whom the charge shall be made may (if he shall so think fit,) without any previous summons (unless where otherwise specially directed,) issue such warrant, and the Magistrate before whom the person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the case.
89. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited on any summary conviction for the value of any property stolen or taken, or for the amount of any injury done (such value or amount to be assessed in each case by the convicting Magistrate,) shall be paid to the party aggrieved, except on summary convictions.
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Person loiter.
ing at night and suspected
ORDINANCE No. 7 of 1865.
Larceny, &c.
Police Magistrate a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession or on his premises any property whatsoever on or with respect to which any offence, punishable either upon information or upon summary conviction by virtue of this Ordinance, shall have been committed, the Magistrate may grant a warrant to search for such property as in the case of stolen goods; and any person to whom any property shall be offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he shall have reason- able cause to suspect that any such offence has been committed on or with respect to such property, is hereby authorized, and, if in his power, is required to apprehend and forthwith to take before a Police Magistrate the party offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.
87. Any constable or peace officer may take into custody, without a warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any may be appre highway, yard, or other place, during the night, and whom he shall have
of any felony
hended.
Mode of com. pelling the appearance of persons punishable on summary conviction.
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of 1875 . 12.]
Application of forfeitures
good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any felony in this Ordinance mentioned, and shall take such person, as soon as reasonably may be, before a Police Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
88. Where any person shall be charged on the oath or declaration of a credible witness before a Police Magistrate with any offence punishable on summary conviction under this Ordinance, the Magistrate may summon the person charged to appear at a time and place to be named in such summons, and if he shall not appear accordingly, then (upon proof of the due service of the summons upon such person, by delivering the same to him personally, or by leaving the same at his usual place of abode,) the Magistrate may either proceed to hear and determine the case ex parte, or issue his warrant for apprehending such person, and bringing him before himself or some other Magistrate; or the Magistrate before whom the charge shall be made may (if he shall so think fit,) without any previous. summons (unless where otherwise specially directed,) issue such warrant, and the Magistrate before whom the person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the case.
89. Every sum of money which shall be forfeited on any summary and penalties conviction for the value of any property stolen or taken, or for the amount of any injury done (such value or amount to be assessed in each case by the convicting Magistrate,) shall be paid to the party aggrieved, except
on summary convictions.
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