WOOLLEN GOODS-continued. alone or mixed with other materials, any Manufacture, p. 123, ante. WOUNDING, With intent to murder, fel. pun. D. 7 Geo. 4. c. 31. s. 11. See p. 37, ante. With intent to disable or do some grievous bodily harm, fel. pun. D. Id. s. 12. WRECKS. Robbing, &c. See Ship, p. 105, ante. Stealing or destroying writings of real estate, misd. ante. (a) A search warrant ought not to be granted, unless the wood lost or stolen is sworn to be of the value of 2s. at the least. 7 & 8 G.4. c. 30. APPENDIX. THE VAGRANT ACT, 5 Geo. 4. c. 83. By this act, all provisions heretofore made relative to idle and disorderly persons, rogues, and vagabonds, incorrigible rogues, or other vagrants, in England, are repealed, except only as to any offence committed before the passing of this act. § 1. Power of Justices, &c. to pass Convicts on their Discharge from Prison to their Place of Settlement. By the 32 Geo. 3. c. 45. intituled "An Act to explain and amend the 17 Geo. 2. intituled 'An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction,'" his majesty's judges of assize, and the justices at the general or quarter sessions, or any justice of the peace, are empowered to order any convict upon his discharge from prison to be conveyed by pass in manner therein di 5 G. 4. c. 83. rected; and are also empowered to convey by pass Idle and disorderly Persons. Every person being able wholly or in part to maintain himself or herself, or family, by work or other means, and wilfully refusing or neglecting so to do, by which he or she, or any of his or her family, shall have become chargeable to any parish, township, or place; Every person returning to and becoming chargeable in any parish, township or place from whence he or she shall have been legally removed, unless he or she shall produce a certificate of the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of some other parish, township, or place, thereby acknowledging him or her to be settled there; Every petty chapman or pedlar wandering abroad and trading, without being duly licensed, or otherwise authorized by law; Every common prostitute wandering in the public streets or public highways, or in any place of public resort, and behaving in a riotous and indecent manner; Idle and And every person wandering abroad, or placing him- 5 G. 4. self or herself in any public place, street, highway, c. 83. court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or disorderly procuring or encouraging any child or children so to persons. do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person within the true intent and meaning of this act; and it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him by his own view, or by the confession of such offender, or by the evidence of one or more credible witness) to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month. § 3. Rogues and Vagabonds. Every person committing any of the offences hereinbefore mentioned, after having been convicted as an idle and disorderly person; Every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of his majesty's subjects; Every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of himself or herself; Every person wilfully exposing to view, in any street, road, highway, or public place, any obscene print, picture, or other indecent exhibition ; K |