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cast on shore, or any goods, merchandize, or articles of any kind belonging to such ship or vessel, every such offender, on conviction, shall suffer death; provided, that when articles. of small value, shall be stranded or cast on shore, and shall be stolen without circumstances of cruelty, outrage, or violence, it shall be lawful to prosecute and punish the offender as for simple larceny. 7 & 8 G. 4. c. 29. s. 18.

If any goods, merchandize, or articles of any kind, belonging to any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, as aforesaid, shall by virtue of a search warrant, be found in the possession of any person, or on the premises of any person with his knowledge, and such person, being carried before a justice, shall not satisfy the justice that he came lawfully by the same, then the same shall by order of the justice be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of the rightful owner thereof, and the offender on conviction before justice, shall forfeit and pay, over and above value of goods, merchandize or articles, a sum not exceeding 201. Id. s. 19.

If any person shall offer or expose to sale any goods, merchandize, or article whatsoever, which shall have been unlawfully taken, or reasonably suspected so to have been, from any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded or cast on shore, in every such case, any person to whom the same shall be offered for sale, or any officer of the customs or excise, or peace-officer, may lawfully seize the same, and shall forthwith carry the same, or give notice of such seizure, to some justice of the peace; and if the person who shall have offered or exposed the same for sale, being duly summoned by such justice, shall not appear and satisfy the justice that he came lawfully by such goods, &c. then the same shall by order of justice, be delivered over to, or for the use of the rightful owner, and the offender, on conviction before justice, shall forfeit and pay, over and above value of goods, &c. a sum not exceeding 20l. Id. s. 20.

LAWS

RELATIVE TO

THE METROPOLIS

AND

ITS VICINITY ONLY.

ALEHOUSES.

JUSTICES for Middlesex and Surry, at the general licensing, may appoint from six to eight special meetings to grant transfers of licenses. 32 G. 3. c. 59. s. 1.

In the parishes of of St. Magaret's and St. John's Westminster, the general licensing is in February.

BREAD.

Baking in London, or within ten miles of the Royal Exchange. Bakers in London within the bills of mortality, and ten miles of the Royal Exchange, may make bread of flour or meal of wheat, barley, rye, oats, buck-wheat, Indian corn, pease, beans, rice, or potatoes with common salt, water, eggs, milk, barm, leaven, potatoe or other yeast, in such proportions as they think fit. 3 G. 4. c. 106. s. 2.

And they may make bread of such weight as they think fit. But selling bread otherwise than by weight, except fancy bread, P. for every offence not exceeding 40s. A. half to the informer, half to the poor. R. by distress, re

turning the overplus after deducting the expenses; if P. not paid on conviction, offender may be detained in custody till after the return of warrant of distress, unless he enters into recognizance for his appearance on the return of the warrant, not being more than seven days from taking such security; for want of distress, commitment to the county gaol or house of correction, without bail or mainprize, for (not exceeding) one calendar month (except otherwise ordered by this act,) unless the penalty and charges are sooner paid. 1 J. 1 W. Ap. to the next general or quarter-sessions, (but if the conviction shall be within six days of the session, then to the following session,) on entering into recognizance within twenty-four hours after conviction, with two sureties, in double the P. to try the App. Ibid. s. 3. 4. s. 19. 27. 28. 32. Using any other than the avoirdupois weight, P. not exceeding 57. nor less than 50s. Ibid. s. 5.

Baking or selling by the peck, half peck, quarter of a peck, or half-quarter of a peck loaf for two years, from the 29th of Sept.-1822, P. (not exceeding) 107. or less than 40s. to be recovered, levied, disposed, and applied as above. Ibid. s. 6.

Bakers or others selling bread at any time before the expiration of the said two years, without previsouly weighing the same in the presence of the purchaser, whether required to do so or not, P. not exceeding 10s. for every offence, to be recovered, levied and applied, and appeal as above. Ib. s. 7.

Bakers or sellers of bread, not having fixed in some part of their shops, on or near the counter, a beam with scales and weights, or some other balance, or using false weights, P. (not exceeding) 51. to be recovered, levied, applied, and disposed of as above. Ibid. s. 8.

Persons delivering bread by cart or other carriage, not having a beam with scales and weights, or other balance, o having insufficient weights, and refusing to weigh bread in the presence of the purchaser, P. (not exceeding) 5l. to be

recovered, levied, applied, and appeal as above. Ibid.

s. 9.

Bakers or others making bread for sale, journeymen or other servants adulterating bread, P. (not exceeding) 107. nor less than 57. or commitment to the house of correction, or other prison (for not exceeding) six calendar months, unless penalty sooner paid, to be recovered, levied, applied, and appeal as above. The names of the offenders may be published in the newspapers, and the expenses thereof paid out of the P. 1 J. 1 W. Ibid. s. 10.

Adulterating corn, meal, or flour, or selling one sort of flour for another sort, P. for every offence, (not exceeding) 201. nor less than 5l., to be recovered, levied, applied, and appeal as above. 1 J. 1 W. Ibid. s. 11.

Selling or exposing for sale bread made of meal or flour mixed, not having the letter M. marked thereon, P. for every pound weight, and so in proportion for a less quantity not exceeding 10s. to be recovered, levied, applied, and appeal as above. 1 J. 1 W. Ibid. s. 12.

Any justice may grant a warrant to search the premises of any baker, miller, or mealman, for adulterated dough, bread, flour, or meal, and for every mixture or ingredient for such adulteration, and if any such adulterated dough, bread, &c. is found, it may be seized, and taken before the nearest resident justice, and if he shall adjudge the same to be adulterated, he may dispose of it as he thinks fit, P. on baker, &c. (not exceeding) 107. nor less than 40s. for first offence; 51. for the second, and 10l. for every subsequent offence, to be recovered, levied, applied, and appeal as above, and the names of the offenders may be published as before mentioned, and the expenses paid out of the P. 2 J. 1 W. Ibid.

s. 13. 14.

Obstructing any such search or seizure, P. not exceeding 10l. at the discretion of the justice. But if it shall appear, that the offence was occasioned by the wilful neglect of a

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