11, 12, & 13, thing so taken, or doe deliver for the same a sufficient bill obli J. 1, C. 2. Stealing goods from a vessel in a port, river, or canal, &c. or from wharfs, trans portation, &c. Plundering any part of the tackle or cargo of a death. gatorie to be payed in forme following, that is to say; 9 Geo. 4, c. 55, s. 17.-That if any person shall steal any goods or merchandize in any vessel, barge, or boat of any description whatever, in any port of entry or discharge, or upon any navigable river or canal, or in any creek or basin, belonging to or communicating with any such port, river, or canal, or shall steal! any goods or merchandize from any dock, wharf, or quay, adjacent to any such port, river, canal, creek, or basin, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall be liable at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years, and if a male to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, (if the court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment. 18. That if any person shall plunder or steal 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 shipwrecked kind, belonging to such ship or vessel, every such offender, being vessel, felony, convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon; provided always, that when articles of small value shall be stranded or cast on shore, and shall be stolen without circumstances of cruelty, outrage, or violence, it shall be lawful to prosecute and punish such offender as for simple larceny; and in either case, the offender may be indicted and tried either in the county in which, or in any county next adjoining the place in which the offence shall have been committed. Persons in possession of shipwrecked goods, not giving a satisfactory account, shall pay a penalty not exceeding 502. Shipwrecked 19. That if any goods, merchandize, or articles of any kind, belonging to any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore as aforesaid, shall, by virtue of a search warrant, to be granted as herein-after mentioned, be found in the possession of any person, or on the premises of any person with his knowledge, and such person, being carried before a justice of the peace, shall not satisfy the justice that he came lawfully by the same, then the same shall, by order of the justice, be forth-with delivered over to or for the use of the rightful owner there. of; and the offender, on conviction of such offence before any two justices of the peace, shall forfeit and pay such sum of money, not exceeding fifty pounds, as to such justices shall seem meet. 20. That if any person shall offer or expose for sale any goods,. goods offered merchandize, or articles whatsoever, which shall have been unfor sale may be seized, and lawfully taken, or reasonably suspected to have been taken from vage. any ship or vessel in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on 9 G. 4, C. 55. shore, as aforesaid; in every such case, any person to whom the same shall be offered for sale, or any officer of the customs or ordered by a justice to be excise, or peace officer, may lawfully seize the same, and shall, restored to with all convenient speed, carry the same, or give notice of such the owner, seizure, to some justice of the peace; and if the person who paying salshall have offered or exposed the same for sale, being duly summoned by such justice, shall not appear and satisfy the justice that he came lawfully by such goods, merchandize, or articles, thea the same shall, by order of the justice, be forthwith delivered over to or for the use of the rightful owner thereof, upon payment of a reasonable reward, to be ascertained by the justice, to the person who seized the same; and the person having offered such Penalty on goods, merchandize, or articles for sale, shall, on conviction of person offering goods for such offence before any two justices of the peace, forfeit and pay sale. the amount of such reward so ordered, and also such sum of money, not exceeding thirty pounds, as to two such justices shall seem meet. 11 Geo. 2, c. 9, s. 2.-And, for the effectual preventing the wilful casting away, burning, or otherwise destroying of ships, by the owners, masters, and mariners thereof and thereto belong. ing; be it, &c., that if any owner of, or captain, master, or mariner, or other officer belonging to any ship, shall, after the twenty-fifth day of March, (1738,) wilfully cast away, sink, burn, or other wise destroy the ship, of which he is owner, or unto which he belongeth, or in any manner otherwise direct, or procure the same to be done, to the prejudice of any person or persons, bodies po. litick or corporate, that shall underwrite or execute any policy or policies of insurance thereon, or of any merchant, or merchants, that shall load goods thereon; and shall be lawfully convicted thereof, such person or persons so offending shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death without the benefit of clergy, or of the statute made in the ninth year of the reign of her late majesty queen Anne, intituled, "An act for taking away the benefit of clergy in certain cases; and for taking away the book in all cases; and for repealing part of the statute for transporting felons." 23 & 24 Geo. 3, c. 48, s. 16.-That if any person or persons, under colour or claiming salvage, or under any other pretence, shall, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, (a) (a) In order to avoid the delays experienced under the 4 Geo. 1, c. 4, in the ascertainment of the amount of salvage payable by vessels stranded, &c., it is enacted, (s. 12,) that all persons claiming rewards for salvage, shall, within fourteen days after service performed, make and file their claims in writing, signed with their names, at the next excise office, stating the items of service performed, and the sums demanded in respect of each, and verified by oath if required. Upon payment of such claims, (s. 13,) the 22 C. 48. Piracy, &c. [P. I. 23 & 24 G. 3, take or detain the possession of the ship or vessel, goods or effects aforesaid, or any of them, from the owners or other person or persons interested therein, or lawfully authorized to receive such possession thereof, after the said owners, or the said other person or persons shall, in any of the respective cases herein-before mentioned, by complying with the terms of this act, have intitled him or themselves to such possession of the said ship or vessel, goods or effects, every such person so offending, being thereof indicted, and lawfully convicted, shall for the said offence be adjudged a felon, and suffer the pains and penalties inflicted on persons convicted of felony. with death. 10 Setting fire to 9 Geo. 4, c. 56, s. 9.-That if any person shall unlawfully and or destroying maliciously set fire to, or in anywise destroy any ship or vessel, a ship, felony, 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, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon. Damaging a ship, otherwise than by fire, felony, punishable by transporta. tion. Exhibiting false signals, shipwrecked vessel or car destroying a go, &c., or forcibly impeding men from saving their lives, felony, with death. 10. That if any person shall unlawfully and maliciously damage, otherwise than by fire, any ship or vessel, whether complete or in an unfinished state, with intent to destroy the same, or to render the same useless, every such offender 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 seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, and if a male to be once, twice, or thrice pub. licly or privately whipped, (if the court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment. 11. That if any person shall exhibit any false light or signal, with intent to bring any ship or vessel into danger, or shall unlawfully and maliciously do any thing tending to the immediate loss or destruction of any ship or vessel in distress, or shall destroy any part of any ship or vessel which shall be in distress, or wrecked, stranded, or cast on shore, or shall destroy any goods, merchandise, or articles of any kind belonging to such ship or vessel, or 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,) every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon. vessel shall be delivered to the owner, &c., without further charge. If the claims be disputed, they are to be adjusted (s. 14) by two justices of the peace, and, upon payment of the sum adjudged by them, the vessel shall be delivered without further cost; or (s. 15) it may be delivered before the adjudication, provided the owner, &c. deposit the amount claimed, or give security by bond to the officer of the customs, with two sufficient sureties, in double the amount claimed, to abide the decision of the justices. .I. [Accessaries, p, 9. Apprehension of offenders, post, p. Ad. miralty offences, p. 14. Malicious intent, post, p. Pardon, p. 12. Removing stolen goods to another part of the United Kingdom, p. 14. Restitution, p. 9. Summary proceedings, p. 10.] Where the original of lony, the receiver of fence is fe stolen proper. ty may be tried, either as an acces 9 Geo, 4, c. 55, s. 47. And with regard to receivers of stolen property, be it enacted, that if any person shall receive any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing or taking whereof shall amount to a felony, either at common law or by virtue of this act, such person knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen or taken, every such receiver shall be guilty of felony, and may be indicted and consory after the victed, either as an accessary after the fact, or for a substantive fact, or for a felony, and in the latter case, whether the principal felon shall substantive felony, and or shall not have been previously convicted, or shall or shall punished by not be amenable to justice; and every such receiver, howsoever transporta convicted, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years, nor less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years, and if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, (if the court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment: provided always, that no person, howsoever tried for receiving as aforesaid, shall be liable to be prosecuted a second time for the same offence. 48. That if any person shall receive any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, the stealing, taking, obtaining, or converting whereof is made an indictable misdemeanor by this act, such person knowing the same to have been unlawfully stolen, taken, obtained, or converted, every such receiver shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be indicted and convicted thereof, whether the person guilty of the principal misdemeanor shall or shall not have been previously convicted thereof, or shall or shall not be amenable to justice; and every such receiver shall, on conviction, be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, and if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped (if the court shall so think fit,) in addition to such im prisonment. 49. That if any person shall receive any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, knowing the same to have been feloniously or unlawfully stolen, taken, obtained, or converted, every such person, whether charged as an accessary after the fact to the felony, or with a substantive felony, or with tion, &c. Where the fence of stealing, or converting property, is a misdemeanor, receiver may be prosecuted for a misdemeanor, whebe convicted ther principal or not. original of Receiver may be tried where the principal triable, or is where the property is found in his where the re 9 G. 4, c. 55. a misdemeanor only, may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and punished in any county or place in which he shall have or shall possession, or have had any such property in his possession, or in any county ceiving takes or place in which the party guilty of the principal felony or misdemeanor may by law be tried, in the same manner as such receiver may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and punished in the county or place where he actually received such property. place. Receivers of property, where the ori. ginal offence is punishable summarily, shall be punishable as original of fenders. Unwarrant ably defacing names or crests on plate, watches, &c., punish ceiving stolen goods. able as for re Bank of Ire land notes 53. That where the stealing or taking of any property whatsoever is by this act punishable on summary conviction, either for every offence, or for the first and second offence only, or for the first offence only, any person who shall receive any such property, knowing the same to be unlawfully come by, shall, on conviction thereof before a justice or justices of the peace, be liable, for every first, second, or subsequent offence of receiving, to the same forfeiture and punishment to which a person guilty of a first, second, or subsequent offence of stealing or taking such property, is by this act made liable. 28 Geo. 3, c. 49, s. 7.-And whereas the altering or defacing the names, cyphers, crests, or arms, engraved upon plate or watches, after the same have been unlawfully or feloniously taken from the right owners thereof, in many instances prevents the discovery and detection of thefts and robberies, and of other offences; be it, &c., that no person whomsoever shall, upon any pretence, change, alter, or deface the name engraved upon any watch, as the maker or owner thereof, or the number of such watch, or the place where made, or any coat of arms, or crest thereon, or on any part or case thereof; nor shall any person change, alter, or deface the name, cypher, crest, or arms engraved upon any article, or piece of family plate, whether gold or silver, without the consent of the owner thereof in writing, or of some person duly authorized to sell the same, or give such consent, unless such articles as aforesaid shall before that time be fairly and openly sold by a reputable auctioneer at a public auction duly advertised; and in case any person shall so alter, change, or deface the name engraved on any watch, as the maker or owner thereof, or the number of such watch, or place where made, or shall alter, change, or deface the name, cypher, crest, or arms on the same, or any part or case thereof, or on any article, or piece of family plate, whether the same be of gold or silver, or shall employ any person so to do, or be in anywise assisting in the doing the same, or in causing or procuring the same to be done, every such person, not being authorized, or not having bought said articles at public auction, as aforesaid, shall be indictable, triable, and punishable in like manner as receivers of stolen goods, knowing the same to be stolen, are by law indictable, triable, and punishable.(a) (a) The repealed statute, 23 & 24 Geo. 3, c. 45, s. 2, made it a misdemeanor to "buy or receive any goods or chattels, know |