so sold shall appear to have been; and in case the owner thereof shall not be known, and no application shall be made for the money arising from such sale within twenty-one days after such sale shall have taken place, the said money shall be applied, after deducting the said charges and expenses, in the same manner as the said penalty of two shillings is hereinbefore directed to be applied: Provided always, that no owner of any horses, asses, sheep, swine, or other beasts or cattle impounded as aforesaid, shall in any case pay more than the sum of five pounds, over and above the charges and expenses of impounding and keeping the same, for any number of horses, asses, sheep, swine, or other beasts or cattle impounded at one time; and provided always, that nothing in this clause shall be deemed, taken, or construed to extend to take away any right of pasturage which may exist on the sides of any turnpike road. 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 75.

543. Other nuisances.] If any person shall wilfully pull down, break, injure or damage any table of tolls put up or fixed at any toll gate or bar on any part of any turnpike road, or wilfully or designedly deface or obliterate any of the inscriptions, letters, figures, or marks thereon;-if any person or persons shall wilfully pull up, throw down, break, injure, or damage any posts, rails, or fences placed or to be placed or put up by order of any trustees or commissioners of any turnpike road, or their surveyor, either by the side of such road, or at or near to any pit or quarry which shall be used, opened, or made for the getting of stones, gravel, or other materials for the purposes thereof, in order to prevent accidents;—or if any person or persons shall wilfully cause any damage or injury to be done to any bridge, arch, wall, or other building or erection to be set up or erected by virtue of any act on any part of any turnpike road, or by the side thereof;--or if any person or persons shall cast or throw any earth or rubbish, or other matter or thing, into any drain, ditch, culvert, tunnel, or other watercourse made by virtue of any act, so as to obstruct the water from running or draining off any turnpike road;—or if any person or persons shall, without being thereto authorized by the surveyor for the time being acting under any act, shovel up, scrape, gather, or carry away any stones, gravel, sand, or other materials, slutch, dirt, mire, drift, or soil from off any footpath or causeway, or any other part of such road; -or if any person shall in any manner wilfully prevent any other person from passing him, or any carriage under his care, upon any such road;—or if any such person shall dig, make, or use any pit for sawing of timber or wood within thirty feet of the centre of any such turnpike road, unless where inclosed by a fence from any such road;-every person offending in any of the cases aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay a sum not

exceeding forty shillings for every such offence; and one moiety of such penalties shall be paid to the informer, and the other moiety thereof shall be paid to the treasurer of the trustees or commissioners of such turnpike road, and applied towards the repair of such road. 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 72.

And if any person, having the care of any waggon, wain, cart, or other such carriage, conveying goods for hire or reward or sale on any turnpike road, shall not chain or fasten any dog, that may be attending him on such road, to such waggon, &c.: penalty not exceeding 20s. 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 76.

545. Prosecutions for penalties.] The information need not be in writing. 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 83.

No person shall be convicted after the expiration of six months from the time when any such offence shall have been committed. 9 G. 4, c. 77, s. 18.

546. Stat. 3 G. 4, c. 126, s. 142, as to the mitigation of penalties, repealed. 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 85.

549. As to the appeal, see 4 G. 4, c. 95, s. 87. There shall be no appeal against a conviction for a penalty not exceeding 40s. Id.

A statute has also passed, for obtaining certain returns from the surveyors of highways and the clerks of trustees of turnpike roads. 2 & 3 Vict. c. 40.

INDEX.

A.

Abduction, 1: forcible abduction of a girl, from motives of
lucre, 1; punishment, 1; commitment, 1. Abduction of
a girl under sixteen years of age, 2; punishment, 2;
commitment, 2.

Abettors, how punishable, 3:-in homicide, how punishable,
558.

Abortion, giving a woman drugs, or using an instrument, to
cause it, punishment, 2; commitment, 3.

Absconding of apprentices, in what cases they shall serve or
make satisfaction for the time they are absent, 104.
Absconding of juvenile offenders from charitable institutions,
punishment, 454.

Abusing female children, under the age of ten, 190: punish-
ment, 190; commitment, 190:-above ten and under the
age of 12, p. 190; punishment, 190; commitment, 190.
Abusing or illtreating cattle, sheep, dogs, or other domestic
animals, 192: punishment, 192; conviction, 192.

Abuses in prisons, how examined into by visitors, 452.
Abusive language by toll collectors on turnpike roads, punish-
ment, 529.

Acceptance of bill of exchange, forgery of, 365.

Access of husband, want of, what, to make the children of a
married woman bastards, 145; access presumed, until the
contrary proved, 145.

Accessory, 3-accessory before the fact, who, 5; not in
manslaughter, 5. 559; not in treason or misdemeanor,
5; how tried, 5; how punishable, 5; commitment, 6.
Accessory after the fact, who, 6; wife cannot be, of her
husband, 74; how tried, 6; how punishable, 6; commit-
ment, 7.

Accessories, in burglary, how punishable, 180;-in homicide,
how punishable, 558, 559, and where tried, 552.

Accomplice, how far a competent witness, 341; in what
cases allowed to give evidence, 113.

Accountable receipt, forgery of, 367; punishment, 367.
Accounts, by constables, of the money expended by them for
their parishes, 251; of high constables and others, of
money received for county rate, 306, 307; of boards for
the repair of highways, 476; of surveyors of highways,
480; of collectors of highway rates, 481.

Accounts in books of the public funds, falsifying, 374;
punishment, 374.

Accusing of crime, 7: accusing or threatening to accuse a
man of certain crimes, with intent to extort, punish-
ment, 7; commitment, 8. Accusing or threatening to
accuse a man of an infamous crime, and thereby extort-
ing, punishment, 8; commitment, 9.

Acknowledging a fine, recovery, cognovit, judgment, or deed
to be enrolled, in the name of another, 375; punish-
ment, 375.

Acknowledging a recognizance or bail in the name of another,
375; punishment, 375.

Acquittal before magistrates, on an information, in what
cases, 274, 275.

Acquittance for money or goods, forgery of, punishment, 367.
Act of parliament, how proved, 337, apprenticeship in con-
travention of, void, 71.

Action, against constable, demand of perusal and copy of
warrant, 116, 252; limitation, venue, plea, 252;—to try
the validity of a conviction, in what cases, 288.
Adjournment, of meeting for licensing alebouses, 19; notice
thereof, 20;-of appeal, in what cases, 67;-of the hear
ing of an information before magistrates, 269.

Adjudication upon a conviction, 269: statement of it in the
conviction, 275.

Administering drugs, to procure abortion, 2: punishment, 2;
commitment, 3; what an administering, 3.

Administering poison, &c., with intent to murder, 131:
punishment, 131; commitment, 131.

Admiralty, 9: its jurisdiction, 9; not of homicide commenced
on land and completed at sea, or commenced at sea and
completed on land, 9; not of offences against statutes
relating to the customs, 10. Examinations and commit-
ment of the offenders, by justices, 10, 230. How
offences committed at sea tried and punished, 10, 11.
Admiralty court, proceedings in, how proved, 338.
Adulterating exciseable liquors, by alehouse keepers, 28:
punishment, 28; conviction, 28. Adulterating beer, ale,
cider, &c., by beer house keepers, 45, 47; punishment,
44, 47; conviction, 44, 47.

Adulterating bread, 155, 167: punishment, 155, 167; convic-