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..D. 1865.

A.D. 1865.]

LARCENY.

[No. 5.

191

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of the Magistrate, either be committed to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months, or else shall forfeit and pay, over and above the value of the bird, beast, or other animal, such sum of money not exceeding one hundred dollars as to the Magistrate may seem meet.

(2.) Every person who, having been convicted of any such offence, either against this or any former enactment in force in this Colony, is afterwards guilty of any such offence as in this section before. mentioned shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, with or without hard labour.

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

(2.) Every person in whose possession or on whose premises such bird or the plumage thereof, or such beast or the skin thereof, or such ani- mal 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, on conviction before a Police Magistrate, be liable, for the first offence, to such forfeiture, and for every subsequent offence, to such punishment, as any person con- victed of stealing any beast or bird is made liable to by the last pre- ceding section.

found in possession bird, etc.

of person

of stolen

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

17. Every person who unlawfully and wilfully kills, wounds, or takes Killing any house dove or pigeon under such circumstances as do not amount house dove or

pigeon. to larceny at common law in England shall, on conviction before a 1b. s. 23. Police Magistrate, forfeit and pay, over and above the value of the bird, any sum not exceeding ten dollars,

Larceny of Written Instruments.

security.

18. Every person who steals, or for any fraudulent purpose destroys, Stealing cancels, or obliterates, the whole or any part of any valuable security, valuable other than a document of title to lands, shall be guilty of felony, of the Ib. s. 27 same nature and in the same degree and punishable in the same manner as if he had stolen any chattel of like value with the share, interest, or deposit to which the security so stolen may relate, or with the money due on the security so stolen, or secured thereby and remaining unsatis- fied, or with the value of the goods or other valuable thing represented, mentioned, or referred to in or by the security.

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