• King William the Third, intituled An Act for the more effectual 11 & 12 W. S. Suppression of Piracy, and so much of an Act passed in the c.7.

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• Fourth Year of the Reign of King George the First, intituled An Act for the further preventing Robbery, Burglary, and other 4 G. 1. c. 11. • Felonies, and for the more effectual Transportation of Felons and s. 7. unlawful Exporters of Wool, and for declaring the Law upon some

• Points relating to Pirates, and so much of an Act passed in the

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Eighth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for the more 8 G. 1. c. 24. effectual suppressing of Piracy, and so much of an Act passed

in the Eighteenth Year of the Reign of King George the

• Second, intituled An Act to amend an Act made in the Eleventh 18 G. 2. c. 30. Year of the Reign of King William the Third, intituled · An Act for the more effectual Suppression of Piracy,' as relates to the Punishment of the Crime of Piracy, or of any Offence by any of the said Acts declared to be Piracy, or of Accessaries thereto respectively:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of the said several Acts as is herein-before referred to shall from and after the Commencement of this Act be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal of
Provisions in

recited Acts.

Punishment of Piracy when attempted.

Murder is

II. And be it enacted, That from and after the Commencement of this Act whosoever, with Intent to commit or at the Time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the Crime of Piracy in respect of any Ship or Vessel, shall assault, with Intent to murder, any Person being on board of or belonging to such Ship or Vessel, or shall stab, cut, or wound any such Person, or unlawfully do any Act by which the Life of such Person may be endangered, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death as a Felon. III. And be it enacted, That from and after the Commence- Persons guilty ment of this Act whosoever shall be convicted of of Piracy to be Offence any transported. which by any of the Acts herein-before referred to amounts to the Crime of Piracy, and is thereby made punishable with Death, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years. IV. And be it enacted, That in the Case of every Felony Punishment of punishable under this Act every Principal in the Second Degree and every Accessary before the Fact shall be punishable with Death or otherwise in the same Manner as the Principal in the First Degree is by this Act punishable; and every Accessary after the Fact to any Felony punishable under this Act shall, on Conviction, be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years.

Accessaries.

V. And be it enacted, That where any Person shall be con- Offences victed of any Offence punishable under this Act for which punishable by Imprisonment. Imprisonment may be awarded, it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the Offender to be imprisoned, or imprisoned and kept to hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correc

Not to affect Powers of 5 & 6 W. 4. c. 38. and

4 G. 4. c. 64.

Commencement of Act.

7 & 8 G. 4. c. 30.

9 G. 4. c. 56.

1 VICT. tion, and also to direct that the Offender shall be kept in solitary Confinement for any Portion or Portions of such Imprisonment, or of such Imprisonment with hard Labour, not exceeding One Month at any one Time, and not exceeding Three Months in any one Year, as to the Court in its Discretion shall

seem meet.

VI. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the Alteration or Repeal of any of the Powers, Provisions, or Regulations contained in an Act made and passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for effecting greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, or in an Act made and passed in the Fourth Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the building, repairing, and regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales. VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall commence and take effect on the First Day of October One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.

CAP. LXXXIX.

An Act to amend the Laws relating to burning or destroying Buildings and Ships. [17th July 1857.] WHEREAS it is expedient to amend so much of an Act passed in the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England relative to malicious Injuries to Property, and also so much of an Act passed in the Ninth Year of the same Reign, intituled An Act for consolidating • and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to malicious Injuries to Property, as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any of the Buildings or Erections therein respectively mentioned; and so much of the same Acts as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Mine of Coal or Cannel Coal; and so much of the same Acts as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to or in anywise destroy any Ship or Vessel, whether the same be complete or in an unfinished State, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously set 'fire to, cast away, or in anywise destroy any Ship or Vessel, ⚫ with Intent thereby to prejudice any Owner or Part Owner of such Ship or Vessel, or of any Goods on board the same, or any Person that hath underwritten or shall underwrite any Policy of Insurance upon such Ship or Vessel, or on the Freight thereof, or upon any Goods on board the same; and so much of the same Acts as relates to any Person who shall exhibit any false Light or Signal with Intent to bring any Ship or Vessel into Danger, or who shall unlawfully and maliciously do any thing tending to the immediate Loss or Destruction

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of any Ship or Vessel in distress, or destroy any Part of any Ship or Vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or any Goods, Merchandize, or Articles of ¿ any Kind belonging to such Ship or Vessel, or who shall by Force prevent or impede any Person endeavouring to save his Life from such Ship or Vessel (whether he shall be on ⚫ board or shall have quitted the same); and so much of the same Acts or either of them as relates to any Person who shall unlawfully or maliciously set fire to any Stack of Corn, Grain, Pulse, Straw, Hay, Coals, Turf, Charcoal, or Wood; and so much of the same Acts as relates to the Punishment of Principals in the Second Degree and of Accessaries before' and after the Fact respectively to such of the Felonies punishable under those Acts as are herein-before referred to:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That so much of Repeal of the said Acts as is herein-before referred to shall continue in Provisions in force until and throughout the Thirtieth Day of September One recited Acts. thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, and shall from and after that Day be repealed, except as to Offences committed before or upon the said Thirtieth Day of September, which shall be dealt with and punished as if this Act had not been passed. II. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and Setting fire to a maliciously set fire to any Dwelling House, any Person being Dwelling House any Person therein, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof being therein. shall suffer Death.

III. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Church or Chapel, or to any Chapel for the Religious Worship of Persons dissenting from the United Church of England and Ireland, or shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any House, Stable, Coach-house, Outhouse, Warehouse, Office, Shop, Mill, Malthouse, Hopoast, Barn, or Granary, or to any Building or Erection used in carrying on any Trade or Manufacture, or any Branch thereof, whether the same or any of them respectively shall then be in the Possession of the Offender, or in the Possession of any other Person, with Intent thereby to injure or defraud any Person, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

IV. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to, cast away, or in anywise destroy any Ship or Vessel, either with Intent to murder any Person, or whereby the Life of any Person shall be endangered, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death.

Setting fire to a
Church or
Warehouse, &c.

Chapel, House,

Setting fire to

Ships or Vessels

with Intent to commit Murder.

V. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully exhibit Hanging out any false Light or Signal, with Intent to bring any Ship or false Lights to Vessel into Danger, or shall unlawfully and maliciously do any wreck.

cause Ship

Setting fire to

with Intent to destroy the

same.

thing tending to the immediate Loss or Destruction of any Ship or Vessel in distress, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer Death.

VI. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and Ships or Vessels maliciously set fire to or in anywise destroy any Ship or Vessel, whether the same be complete or in an unfinished State, or shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to, cast away, or in anywise destroy any Ship or Vessel, with Intent thereby to prejudice any Owner or Part Owner of such Ship or Vessel, or of any Goods on board the same, or any Person that hath underwritten or shall underwrite any Policy of Insurance upon such Ship or Vessel, or on the Freight thereof, or upon any Goods on board the same, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

Impeding any Person endeavouring to save his Life from any Ship wrecked, &c.

Destroying

Wrecks or any Articles belonging thereto.

Setting fire to
Coal Mines.

Setting fire to
Agricultural
Produce, &c.

VII. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall by Force prevent or impede any Person endeavouring to save his Life from any Ship or Vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, (whether he shall be on board or shall have quitted the same,) shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

VIII. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously destroy any Part of any Ship or Vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or any Goods, Merchandize, or Articles of any Kind belonging to such Ship or Vessel, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for any Term not exceeding Fifteen Years nor less than Ten Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

IX. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Mine of Coal or Cannel Coal shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

X. And be it enacted, That whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any Stack of Corn, Grain, Pulse, Tares, Straw, Haulm, Stubble, Furze, Heath, Fern, Hay, Turf, Peat, Coals, Charcoal, or Wood, or any Steer of Wood, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the Seas for the Term of the natural Life of such Offender, or for any Term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Three Years.

XI. And

XI. And be it enacted, That in the Case of every Felony Punishment of punishable under this Act, every Principal in the Second Accessaries. Degree and every Accessary before the Fact shall be punishable with Death or otherwise in the same Manner as the Principal in the First Degree is by this Act punishable; and every Accessary after the Fact to any Felony punishable under this Act shall, on Conviction, be liable to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years.

XII. And be it enacted, That where any Person shall be Offences convicted of any Offence punishable under this Act, for which punishable by Imprisonment may be awarded, it shall be lawful for the Court Imprisonment. to sentence the Offender to be imprisoned, or imprisoned and kept to hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, and also to direct that the Offender shall be kept in solitary Confinement for any Portion or Portions of such Imprisonment, or of such Imprisonment with hard Labour, not exceeding One Month at any one Time, and not exceeding Three Months in any one Year, as to the Court in its Discretion shall seem meet.

XIII. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the Alteration or Repeal of any of the Powers, Provisions, or Regulations contained in an Act made and passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for effecting greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, or in an Act made and passed in the Fourth Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the building, repairing, and regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales.

XIV. And be it enacted, That where any Felony punishable under this Act shall be committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England or of Ireland, the same shall be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and determined in the same Manner as any other Felony committed within that Jurisdiction.

Not to affect

Powers of 5&6 W.4.

c. 38. and

4G. 4. c. 64.

Offences committed within the Admiralty Jurisdiction.

XV. Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing in Not to extend this Act contained shall extend to Scotland.

to Scotland.

XVI. And be it enacted, That this Act shall commence and Commencetake effect on the First Day of October One thousand eight ment of Act. hundred and thirty-seven.

CAP. XC.

An Act to amend the Law relative to Offences punishable by Transportation for Life. [17th July 1837.]

WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Second and Third
Years of His late Majesty King William the Fourth's

Reign, intituled An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death 2 & 3 W. 4.

[No.33. Price 2d.]

Kk

" in

c. 62.