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4. Stage coaches, conveying outside passengers, without licence, 330; information, 330; summons, 330; conviction, 331; warrant of commitment, 332.

5. Stage coaches, carrying more outside passengers than expressed in the licence, 332; information, conviction &c., 332.

6. Stage coaches carrying outside passengers, without having printed on the outside the number of passengers allowed, and the names of the proprietors, 332; information, conviction, &c., 332.

7. Stage coaches, more than eight feet nine inches high &c., carrying luggage or passengers outside, 333; information, conviction, &c., 333.

8. Stage coaches carrying luggage above a certain height, 334; information, conviction &c., 334.

9. Drivers not allowing the coach or luggage to be measured by justices, passengers &c., 334; information, conviction &c., 334.

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10. Drivers not stopping their coaches at toll-gates, to measure luggage &c., 335; information, conviction, &c., 335. 11. Drivers not allowing the collector at a toll-gate to measure luggage, &c., information, conviction &c., 335. 12. Toll-collectors refusing to measure luggage &c. 336; information, conviction &c., 336.

13. Drivers leaving their horses &c., 336; information, conviction, &c. 336.

14. Drivers or guards, endangering the lives of passengers by intoxication, or being guilty of other misconduct, 337; information, conviction, &c. 337.

15. Drivers or guards insulting, or exacting from, passengers, 337; information, conviction &c., 337.

16. Coachmen permitting others to drive &c., 338; information, conviction, &c., 338.

17. Guards firing off their arms except for defence, 338; information, conviction &c., 338.

Staiths.

See Steam engine.

Statute duty. See "Highways."

Stealing bills of exchange, promissory notes, or other valuable security &c., commitment for, 20.

Stealing a child under ten years, commitment for, 65. Stealing in a church or chapel, after breaking and entering the same, commitment for, 22; stealing in a church or chapel, and then breaking out of the same, commitment for, 23. Stealing from a dock, wharf or quay, adjoining to a port or navigable river, commitment for, 26.

Stealing in a dwelling-house, some person therein being put in fear, commitment for, 24.

Stealing in a dwelling house to the value of 57., commitment for,

Stealing in a building within the same curtilage with a dwellinghouse, (but not privileged as part thereof), after breaking and entering the same, commitment for, 25.

Stealing hares or conies. See "Hares." "Conies."

Stealing horses, mares, sheep or other cattle, commitment for, 29. Stealing any glass or woodwork belonging to buildings, or lead, iron, copper, brass or other metal, or any utensil or fixture, fixed to a building, commitment for, 35, 36.

Stealing metal, fixed in land which is private property, commitment for, 36. Ripping cutting or breaking it, with intent to steal it, commitment for, 36.

Stealing metal, fixed for a fence to a dwelling-house, garden or area, commitment for, 36, 37. Ripping cutting or breaking it, with intent to steal it, commitment for, 36, 37. Stealing metal fixed in a square, street, or place, dedicated to public use or ornament, commitment for, 37. Ripping,

cutting or breaking it, with intent to steal it, commitment for, 37.

Stealing oysters and oyster brood, commitment for, 31.

Stealing the ore of any metal, or any lapis calaminaris, manganese or mundick, commitment for, 32.

Stealing from the person, commitment for, 20.

Stealing any plant, root, fruit or vegetable production, growing in a garden, orchard, nursery-ground, hothouse, green house or conservatory, conviction, 258; second offence, commitment for, 35.

Stealing records, commitment for, 27.

Stealing from a ship, barge or boat, în port or on a navigable river, commitment for, 26.

Stealing in a shop, warehouse or counting house, after breaking and entering the same, commitment for, 25.

Stealing silk, woollen, linen or cotton goods, to the value of 10s. in the process of manufacture, commitment for, 26. Stealing writings relating to the title to real estate, commitment for, 29.

Stealing trees, saplings, shrubs or underwood.

Stealing a will or codicil, commitment for, 27.

Stealing from a wreck, commitment for, 27.

See "Shrub."

Steam engines used for mines, pulling down destroying or damaging, commitment for, 45. Riotously pulling down, demolishing or destroying them, commitment for, 46.

Stile. See" Fences."

Stockings in the loom, &c., damaging or destroying, commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.

Stores: embezzling the king's stores, commitment for, 77. Having naval stores in his possession, commitment for, 77. Stranded ship. See " Wreck."

Strangling. See "Murder."

Subornation of perjury, commitment for, 77.

Duties of justices

Summary conviction, for what offences, 1. with respect to such offences, 1. 93. Summons in what cases for indictable offences, 3; form of it, 4; how served, 4.

Summons for offences punishable upon a summary conviction, 96; to whom directed, 96; it must state the time and place of attendance, 96; it may in all cases be granted by one justice, 96; form of it, directed to the constable, 96; form of it, directed to the parties, 97; how served or executed, 97.

Summons of a witness, in what cases, 10, form of it, 10.
Sunday:

1. Travelling on the Lord's Day, 339; information, 339,
conviction, 339; warrant of distress, 340.

2. Exercising a trade on the Lord's Day, 340; information, conviction, &c. 340.

3. Killing game on the Lord's Day. See "Game." Swearing: profanely cursing or swearing, 341; information, 341; conviction, 341; commitment, 342.

Sweeps. See "Apprentices."

T.

Tackle, for preparing or manufacturing silk woollen linen or cotton goods, cutting breaking damaging or destroying, commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.

Taking an unlawful oath, commitment for, 76.

Taking reward for helping to stolen goods, commitment for, 42. Tenters, goods on, damaging or destroying, commitment for, 43. Entering a building by force, with intent to do so, commitment for, 44.

Threatening to accuse a man of a crime, &c., with intent to extort money, &c., commitment for, 22. Sending a letter to such effect, commitment for, 22.

Throwing down locks, sluices, &c. on navigable rivers or canals, commitment for, 49.

Throwing down turnpike-gates, rails, posts, toll-houses, &c., commitment for, 50.

Tiles. See "Bricks."

Title deeds, or other writings relating to the title to real estate, stealing, commitment for, 29.

Toll. See "Highways."

Toll-collector. See "Highways."

Toll-gate keeper. See "Highways."

"Post Horse Duty."

Toll-house, throwing down, levelling or destroying, commitment

for, 50.

Trade, buildings or erections used in carrying on, setting fire to,

commitment for, 42.

Trade. See "Sunday.”

Transportation, returning from, commitment for, 79.
Travelling. See "Sunday."

Treason, by compassing the king's death, commitment for, 70; by levying war, commitment for, 70; by adhering to the king's enemies, commitment for, 71; by counterfeiting coin, commitment for, 71, &c.

Trees, &c., stealing from parks pleasure-grounds, &c., commitment for, 33. Stealing them, growing elsewhere, commitment for, 33. Cutting, breaking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging them, growing in parks, pleasure grounds, &c., with intent to steal them, commitment for, 33; the like, if growing elsewhere, 34. Stealing them, to the value of 1s., conviction, 250; conviction for a second offence, 252; third offence, commitment for, 34. Cutting, breaking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging them, with intent to steal them, thereby doing injury to the amount of 1s., conviction, 251; conviction for a second offence, 252; third offence, commitment for, 34. Cutting, breaking, barking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging them, maliciously, growing in parks, pleasure-grounds, &c., commitment for, 53; if growing elsewhere, commitment for, 53; where the injury done amounts to 1s., conviction, 268; con. viction for a second offence, 268; third offence, commit、 ment for, 53. Persons having them in possession, and not giving a satisfactory account thereof, 256: search warrant, 256; conviction, 257.

Trees, plantations of, setting fire to, commitment for, 52.
Trespass. See "Maliciously doing damage," &c.

Trunk for conveying minerals from mines, pulling down destroying, or damaging, commitment for, 44; riotously doing so, commitment for, 46.

Turnpike-gate or walls posts rails &c. belonging thereto, throwing down, levelling or destroying, commitment for, 50. Turnpike roads. See "Highways."

U.

Underwood, &c., stealing from parks, pleasure grounds, &c., commitment for, 33. Stealing it, growing elsewhere, commitment for, 33. Cutting, breaking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging it, growing in parks, pleasure grounds, &c., with intent to steal it, commitment for, 33; the like, if growing elsewhere, commitment for, 34. Stealing it, to the value of 1s., conviction, 250; conviction for a second offence, 252; third offence, commitment for, 34. Cutting, breaking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging it, with intent to steal it, thereby doing injury to the amount of 1s., conviction, 251: convic

tion for a second offence, 252; third offence, commitment for, 34. Cutting, breaking, barking, rooting up, or otherwise destroying or damaging it, maliciously, if growing in parks, pleasure grounds, &c., commitment for, 53; if growing elsewhere, commitment for, 53: where the injury done amounts to 1s., 267; conviction, 268; conviction for a second offence, 268; third offence, commitment for, 53. Persons in possession of it, and not giving a satisfactory account thereof, 256; search warrant, 256; conviction, 257. Unlawful oath, administering, commitment for, 76. Taking such oath, commitment for, 76. Administering an oath to commit treason or felony, commitment for, 76. Unnatural offences, commitments for, 63.

commit them, commitments for, 63.

Assault with intent to

Utensil fixed to a building, stealing, commitment for, 35, 36. Ripping, cutting or breaking it, with intent to steal it, commitment for, 36.

Uttering counterfeit money, commitment for, 72. Subsequent offence, commitment for, 72. Uttering twice within ten days, commitment for, 72. Uttering counterfeit money, having other counterfeit money in his possession, commitment for, 73.

Uttering a forged bond, commitment for, 54; a forged will, commitment for, 55; a forged bill of exchange or promissory note, commitment for, 56; a forged bank note, commitment for, 56.

V.

Vagrants: information, 342; warrant, 343; conviction, 343; commitment, 343; recognizance to appear and prosecute at sessions, 344.

Valuable security, bills of exchange, &c., stealing, commitment for, 20.

Vegetable productions, growing in gardens, &c., stealing, conviction, 258; second offence, commitment for, 35. Destroy

ing or damaging them, with intent to steal them, conviction, 259; second offence, commitment for, 35. Destroying or damaging them maliciously, 269; conviction, 270; second offence, commitment for, 54.

W.

Wad, stealing, from a mine, commitment for, 32.
Waggon. See "Highways."

Waggon-way for conveying minerals from mines, pulling down destroying or damaging, commitment for, 45. Riotously doing so, commitment for, 46.

Warehouse, setting fire to, commitment for, 42. Riotously pull

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