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No. 5 of 1865.

LARCENY.

prosecuting thief or

ing, embezzling, converting, or disposing of, or in knowingly receiving, any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property conviction to whatsoever, is indicted for such offence, by or on the behalf of the

receiver to

have restitu- tion of his property.

[24 & 25 Pici. c. 96 s.100.1 [cf. No. 4 of 1875 s. 12.]

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owner of the properly or his executor or administrator, and con- victed thereof, in such case the property shall be restored to the owner or his representative; and in every case in this section afore- said the Court before which any person is tried for any such felony or misdemeanor shall have power to order the restitution thereof in a summary manner: Provided that if it appears, before any award or order made, that any valuable security has been bond fide paid or discharged by some person liable to the payment thereof, or, being a negotiable instrument, has been bonâ fide taken or received by transfer or delivery, by some person for a just and valuable consideration, without any notice or without any reason- able cause to suspect that the same had by any felony or misde- meanor been stolen, taken, obtained, extorted, embezzled, convert- ed, or disposed of, in such case the Court shall not award or order the restitution of such security: Provided, also, that nothing in this section shall apply to the case of any prosecution of any banker, merchant, attorney, factor, broker, or other agent, or of any trustee, entrusted with the possession of any goods or of any document of title to goods for any misdemeanor against this Ordinance.

89. Every person who corruptly takes any money or reward, directly or indirectly, under pretence or upon, account of helping any person to recover any chattel, money, valuable security, or perty without other property whatsoever which by any felony or misdemeanor bringing has been stolen, taken, obtained, extorted, embezzled, converted, or disposed of, as in this Ordinance before mentioned, shall (unless fib. s. 101. he has used all due diligence to cause the offender to be brought to trial for the same) be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 7 years, and, if a male under the age of 16 years, with or without whipping.

offender to trial.

[cf. No. 3 of 1903.]

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Advertising reward for return of

stolen or lost property. [ib. s. 102.]

90. Every person who—

(1) publicly advertises a reward for the return of any property whatsoever which has been stolen or lost, and in such advertisement uses any words purporting that no questions will be asked; or

* As amended by No. 50 of 1911.

As amended by No. 80 of 1911 and No. 51 of 1911. The word recover

has been omitted from the English Act as printed in the Statutes at Large, and in all subsequent editions.

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