be pun o or cause to be done any act, upon or by virtue of under this ny matter whatsoever, knowing such matter to Act, shall have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, ished with ›r altered, would, according to the provisions con- penal serained in any such Act, be guilty of felony, and vitude for would, before the passing of the Act of the first year life, &c. of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-six, have been liable to suffer death as a felon; or where by any Act now in force any person falsely personating another, or falsely acknowledging anything in the name of another, or falsely representing any other person than the real party to be such real party, or wilfully making a false entry in any book, account, or document, or in any manner wilfully falsifying any part of any book, account, or document, or wilfully making a transfer of any stock, annuity, or fund in the name of any person not being the owner thereof, or knowingly taking any false oath, or knowingly making any false affidavit or false affirmation, or demanding or receiving any money or other thing by virtue of any probate or letters of administration, knowing the will on which such probate shall have been obtained to have been false or forged, or knowing such probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by means of any false oath or false affirmation, would, according to the provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of king William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; or where by any Act now in force any person making or using, or knowingly having in his custody or possession, any frame, mould, or instrument for the making of paper, with certain words visible in the substance thereof, or any person making such paper, or causing certain words to appear visible in the substance of any paper, would, according to the provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; then, and in each of the several cases aforesaid, if any person shall after the commencement of this Act be convicted of any such felony as is herein before in this P Principals in the section mentioned, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission thereof, and the same shall not be punishable under any of the other provisions of this Act, every such person shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement. Note. This clause is taken from the 1 Will. 4, c. 66, s. 1, and extended to Ireland to meet any case, if such there be, to which its provisions may apply. 49. In the case of every felony punishable under this Act, every principal in the second degree, and degree and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable accessories. in the same manner as the principal in the first second degree is by this Act punishable; and every accessory after the fact to any felony punishable under this Act, shall on conviction be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement; Abettors in and every person who shall aid, abet, counsel, or misdemea- procure the commission of any misdemeanor punish nors. able under this Act shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, and punished as a principal offender. Note. See the note to s. 67 of the Offences against the Person Act, ante, p. 88. ... Offences 50. All indictable offences mentioned in this Act committed within the Which shall be committed within the jurisdiction of jurisdic- the Admiralty of England or Ireland shall be tion of the deemed to be offences of the same nature, and Admiralty. liable to the same punishments as if they had been committed upon the land in England or Ireland, nd may be dealt with, inquired of, tried, and etermined in any county or place in England or reland in which the offender shall be apprehended r be in custody, in the same manner in all respects As if they had been actually committed in that County or place; and in any indictment for any such offence, or for being an accessory to such an 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 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. Note.--See the note to s. 68 of the Offences against the Person Act, ante, p. 89. 51. Whenever any person shall be convicted of a Fine and misdemeanor under this Act it shall be lawful for the sureties Court, if it shall think fit, in addition to or in lieu of the peace for keeping any of the punishments by this Act authorised, to fine in what the offender, and to require him to enter into his own cases. recognisances, and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace and being of good behaviour; and in all cases of felonies in this Act mentioned it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall think fit, to require the offender to enter into his own recogisances, and to find sureties, both or either, for keeping the peace, in addition to any of the punishments by this Act authorised; provided that no person shall be imprisoned under this clause, for not finding sureties, for any period exceeding one year. Note.-See ante, p. 6, for the note to this clause. 52. Whenever imprisonment, with or without Hard hard labour, may be awarded for any offence under labour. this Act, the Court may sentence the offender to be 316 Solitary confinement. The costs secution of imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction. Note.-See ante, p. 5, for the note to this clause. 53. Whenever solitary confinement may be awarded for any offence under this Act, the Court may direct the offender to be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of his imprisonment, or of his imprisonment with hard labour, not exceeding one month at any one time, and not exceeding three months in any one year. Note.-See ante, p. 5, for the note to this clause. 54. The Court before which any indictable misdeof the pro- meanor against this Act shall be prosecuted or tried misdemea may allow the costs of the prosecution in the same nor against manner as in cases of felony; and every order for the payment of such costs shall be made out, and the sum of money mentioned therein paid and repaid, upon the same terms and in the same manner in all respects as in cases of felony. this Act may be allowed. Act not to 55. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to extend to Scotland, except as otherwise herein-before expressly provided. Scotland. Commence ment of Act. 56. This Act shall commence and take effect on the first day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. COINAGE OFFENCES. 24 & 25 VICT. c. XCIX. An Act to consolidate and amend the statute law of THER EREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Statute law of the United Kingdom against offences relating to the coin: 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, as follows: in silver coin. 1. In the interpretation of and for the purposes of Interprethis Act, the expression "the Queen's current gold or tation of silver coin" shall include any gold or silver coin coined terms. in any of Her Majesty's mints, or lawfully current, by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise, in any Current part of Her Majesty's dominions, whether within the gold and United Kingdom or otherwise; and the expression "the Queen's copper coin" shall include any copper Copper coin and any coin of bronze or mixed metal coined coin. any of Her Majesty's mints, or lawfully current, by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise, in any part of Her Majesty's said dominions; and the expression "false or counterfeit coin resembling or apparently False or intended to resemble or pass for any of the Queen's coin. current gold or silver coin" shall include any of the current coin which shall have been gilt, silvered, washed, coloured, or cased over, or in any manner altered, so as to resemble or be apparently intended to resemble or pass for any of the Queen's current counterfeit |