ward will be given or paid for any Property which shall have been stolen or lost, without seizing or making any Inquiry after the Person producing such Property, or shall promise or offer in any such public Advertisement to return to any Pawnbroker or other Person who may have bought or advanced Money by way of Loan upon any Property stolen or lost the Money so paid or advanced or any other Sum of Money or Reward for the Return of such Property, or shall print or publish any such Advertisement, shall forfeit the Sum of Fifty Pounds for every such Offence to any Person who will sue for the same by Action of Debt, to be recovered, with full Costs of Suit. mitting any A Person in Warrant. Grounds of Suspicion As to Apprehension of Offenders, and other Proceedings : 103. Any Person found committing any Offence punishable, either upon Indictment or upon Summary Conviction, by virtue of this Act, except only the Offence of Angling in the Daytime, may be immediately apprehended without a Warrant by any Person, and forthwith taken, together with such Property, if any, before some neighbouring Justice of the Peace, to be dealt with according to Law; and if any credible Witness shall prove Justice, upon upon Oath before a Justice of the Peace a reasonable Cause to suspect that any Person has in his Possession or on his Premises proved on any Property whatsoever on or with respect to which any Oath, may Offence, punishable either upon Indictment or upon Summary grant a Search Conviction by virtue of this Act, shall have been committed, the Justice may grant a Warrant to search for such Property as in the Case of stolen Goods; and any Person to whom any Person to whom Property shall be offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he stolen Proshall have reasonable Cause to suspect that any such Offence perty is offered has been committed on or with respect to such Property, is Party offering hereby authorized, and, if in his Power, is required to apprehend it. and forthwith to take before a Justice of the Peace the Party offering the same, together with such Property, to be dealt with according to Law. Warrant. may seize the Night and sus 104. Any Constable or Peace Officer may take into Custody, A Person without Warrant, any Person whom he shall find lying or loitering at loitering in any Highway, Yard, or other Place, during the pected of any Night, and whom he shall have good Cause to suspect of having Felony against committed, or being about to commit, any Felony against this this Act may be Act, and shall take such Person, as soon as reasonably may be, before a Justice of the Peace, to be dealt with according to Law. apprehended. pearance of viction. 105. Where any Person shall be charged on the Oath of a Mode of comcredible Witness before any Justice of the Peace with any pelling the ApOffence punishable on Summary Conviction under this Act, Persons punishthe Justice may summon the Person charged to appear at a able on SumTime and Place to be named in such Summons, and if he shall mary Connot 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 Justice may either proceed to hear and determine the Case ex parte, or issue his Warrant for apprehending such Person, and Application of Proviso where several Persons join in Commission of same Offence. If a Person victed shall not pay, &c., the Justice may commit him. Scale of Imprisonment. and bringing him before himself or some other Justice of the Peace; or the Justice 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 Justice before whom the Person charged shall appear or be brought shall proceed to hear and determine the Case. 106. 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 Justice), shall be paid to the Party aggrieved, except where he is unknown, and in that Case such Sum shall be applied in the same Manner as a Penalty; and every Sum which shall be imposed as a Penalty by any Justice of the Peace, whether in addition to such Value or Amount or otherwise, shall be paid and ap plied in the same Manner as other Penalties recoverable before Justices of the Peace are to be paid and applied in Cases where the Statute imposing the same contains no Direction for the Payment thereof to any Person: Provided, that where several Persons shall join in the Commission of the same Offence, and shall, upon Conviction thereof, each be adjudged to forfeit a Sum equivalent to the Value of the Property or to the Amount of the Injury, in every such Case no further Sum shall be paid to the Party aggrieved than such Value or Amount; and the remaining Sum or Sums forfeited shall be applied in the same Manner as any Penalty imposed by a Justice of the Peace is herein-before directed to be applied. 107. In every Case of a Summary Conviction under this summarily con- Act, where the Sum which shall be forfeited for the Value of the Property stolen or taken, or for the Amount of the Injury done, or which shall be imposed as a Penalty by the Justice, shall not be paid, either immediately after the Conviction, or within such Period as the Justice shall at the Time of the Conviction appoint, the convicting Justice (unless where otherwise specially directed) may commit the Offender to the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to Hard Labour, according to the Discretion of the Justice, for any Term not exceeding Two Months, where the Amount of the Sum forfeited or of the Penalty imposed, or of both (as the Case may be), together with the Costs, shall not exceed Five Pounds, and for any Term not exceeding Four Months where the Amount, with Costs, shall not exceed Ten Pounds, and for any Term not exceeding Six Months in any other Case, the Commitment to be determinable in each of the Cases aforesaid upon Payment of the Amount and Costs. Justice may discharge the Offender in certain Cases. 108. Where any Person shall be summarily convicted before a Justice of the Peace of any Offence against this Act, and it shall be a First Conviction, the Justice may, if he shall so think fit, discharge the Offender from his Conviction, upon his making such such Satisfaction to the Party aggrieved for Damages and Costs, or either of them, as shall be ascertained by the Justice. shall be a Bar Cause. 109. In case any Person convicted of any Offence punishable A Summary upon Summary Conviction by virtue of this Act shall have Conviction paid the Sum adjudged to be paid, together with Costs, under to any other such Conviction, or shall have received a Remission thereof Proceeding from the Crown, or from the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief for the same Governor in Ireland, or shall have suffered the Imprisonment awarded for Nonpayment thereof, or the Imprisonment adjudged in the first instance, or shall have been so discharged from his Conviction by any Justice as aforesaid, in every such Case he shall be released from all further or other Proceedings for the same Cause. 110. In all Cases where the Sum adjudged to be paid on any Appeal. Summary Conviction shall exceed Five Pounds, or the Imprisonment adjudged shall exceed One Month, or the Conviction. shall take place before One Justice only, any Person who shall think himself aggrieved by any such Conviction may appeal to the next Court of General or Quarter Sessions which shall be holden not less than Twelve Days after the Day of such Conviction for the County or Place wherein the Cause of Complaint shall have arisen; provided, that such Person shall give to the Complainant a Notice in Writing of such Appeal, and of the Cause and Matter thereof, within Three Days after such Conviction, and Seven clear Days at the least before such Sessions, and shall also either remain in Custody until the Sessions, or shall enter into a Recognizance, with Two sufficient Sureties, before a Justice of the Peace, conditioned personally to appear at the said Sessions and to try such Appeal, and to abide the Judgment of the Court thereupon, and to pay such Costs as shall be by the Court awarded; or if such Appeal shall be against any Conviction, whereby only a Penalty or other Sum of Money shall be adjudged to be paid, shall deposit with the Clerk of the convicting Justice such a Sum of Money as such Justice shall deem to be sufficient to cover the Sum so adjudged to be paid, together with the Costs of the Conviction and the Costs of the Appeal; and upon such Notice being given, and such Recognizance being entered into, or such Deposit being made, the Justice before whom such Recognizance shall be entered into, or such Deposit shall be made, shall liberate such Person if in Custody; and the Court at such Sessions shall hear and determine the Matter of the Appeal, and shall make such Order therein, with or without Costs to either Party, as to the Court shall seem meet, and in case of the Dismissal of the Appeal or the Affirmance of the Conviction shall order and adjudge the Offender to be punished according to the Conviction, and to pay such Costs as shall be awarded, and shall, if necessary, issue Process for enforcing such Judgment; and in any Case where after any such Deposit shall have been made as aforesaid the Conviction shall be affirmed, the Court may order the Sum thereby adjudged to be paid, together with the Costs of No Certiorari, &c. Convictions to be returned to the Quarter Sessions. Venue, in Proceedings against Persons acting under this Act. Notice of Action. General Issue, &c. of the Conviction and the Costs of the Appeal, to be paid out of the Money deposited, and the Residue thereof, if any, to be repaid to the Party convicted; and in any Case where after any such Deposit the Conviction shall be quashed, the Court shail order the Money deposited to be repaid to the Party convicted; and in every Case where any Conviction shall be quashed on Appeal as aforesaid the Clerk of the Peace, or other proper Officer, shall forthwith endorse on the Conviction a Memorandum that the same has been so quashed; and whenever any Copy or Certificate of such Conviction shall be made, a Copy of such Memorandum shall be added thereto, and shall be sufficient Evidence that the Conviction has been quashed in every Case where such Copy or Certificate would be sufficient Evidence of such Conviction. 111. No such Conviction, or Adjudication made on Appeal therefrom, shall be quashed for Want of Form, or be removed by Certiorari into any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of Record; and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any Defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the Party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid Conviction to sustain the same. 112. Every Justice of the Peace before whom any Person shall be convicted of any Offence against this Act shall transmit the Conviction to the next Court of General or Quarter Sessions which shall be holden for the County or Place wherein the Offence shall have been committed, there to be kept by the proper Officer among the Records of the Court; and upon any Information against any Person for a subsequent Offence, a Copy of such Conviction, certified by the proper Officer of the Court, or proved to be a true Copy, shall be sufficient Evidence to prove a Conviction for the former Offence, and the Conviction shall be presumed to have been unappealed against until the contrary be shown. 113. All Actions and Prosecutions to be commenced against any Person for anything done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid and tried in the County where the Fact was committed, and shall be commenced within Six Months after the Fact committed, and not otherwise; and Notice in Writing of such Action and of the Cause thereof shall be given to the Defendant One Month at least before the Commencement of the Action; and in any such Action the Defendant may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the special Matter in Evidence, at any Trial to be had thereupon; and no Plaintiff shall recover in any such Action if Tender of sufficient Amends shall have been made before such Action brought, or if a sufficient Sum of Money shall have been paid into Court after such Action brought, by or on behalf of the Defendant; and if a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant, or the Plaintiff shall become nonsuit, or discontinue any such Action after Issue joined, or if, upon Demurrer or otherwise, Judgment shall be given against the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall recover his full Costs as between between Attorney and Client, and have the like Remedy for the same as any Defendant has by Law in other Cases; and though a Verdict shall be given for the Plaintiff in any such Action, such Plaintiff shall not have Costs against the Defendant unless the Judge before whom the Trial shall be shall certify his Approbation of the Action. As to other Matters: one Part of the any other Part 114. If any Person shall have in his Possession in any one Stealers of Part of the United Kingdom any Chattel, Money, valuable Property in Security, or other Property whatsoever, which he shall have United Kingstolen or otherwise feloniously taken in any other Part of the dom who have United Kingdom, he may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and the same in punished for Larceny or Theft in that Part of the United of the United Kingdom where he shall so have such Property, in the same Kingdom may Manner as if he had actually stolen or taken it in that Part; be tried and and if any Person in any one Part of the United Kingdom shall that Part of receive or have any Chattel, Money, valuable Security, or other the United Property whatsoever which shall have been stolen or otherwise Kingdom feloniously taken in any other Part of the United Kingdom, have Property. such Person knowing such Property to have been stolen or otherwise feloniously taken, he may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and punished for such Offence in that Part of the United Kingdom where he shall so receive or have such Property, in the same Manner as if it had been originally stolen or taken in that Part. 115. All indictable Offences mentioned in this Act which shall be committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or Ireland shall be deemed to be Offences of the same Nature, and liable to the same Punishments, as if they had been committed upon the Land in England or Ireland, and may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and determined in any County or Place in which the Offender shall be apprehended or be in Custody, and in any Indictment for any such Offence or for being an Accessory to any such Offence the Venue in the Margin shall be the same as if the Offence had been committed in such County or Place, and the Offence itself shall be averred to have been committed "on the High Seas ;" provided, that nothing herein contained shall alter or affect any of the Laws relating to the Government of Her Majesty's Land or Naval Forces. where they Offences committed within tion of the Admiralty. the Jurisdic a subsequent 116. In any Indictment for any Offence punishable under Form of Inthis Act, and committed after a previous Conviction or Convic- dictment for tions for any Felony, Misdemeanor, or Offence or Offences Offence. punishable upon Summary Conviction, it shall be sufficient, after charging the subsequent Offence, to state that the Offender was at a certain Time and Place or at certain Times and Places convicted of Felony, or of an indictable Misdemeanor, or of an Offence or Offences punishable upon Summary Conviction, (as the Case may be,) without otherwise describing the previous Felony, Misdemeanor, Offence, or Offences; and a Certificate containing |