OBSERVATIONS. OFFENCE. Act or Acts of Parliament, by which the Offence is defined or made punishable. Appendix No. 6. Any manner of officer of the King's Exchequer taking of any Archbishop or Bishop, or of any other having charge with the collection The offender also to lose and and payment of the pension or annual rent of one-tenth of spiritual livings, any manner reward or thing for making their account or quietus est in the same Exchequer, or for any manner of thing appertaining to the same, concerning the said pension and annual rent. j forfeit his office. 26 Hen. 8. c. 3. s. 20. FINE at the discretion of the Court, so that the same do not in any case exceed £100. Any employer of any artificer in any of the 2 W. 4. c. 37. s. 9. To be disabled and made incapable ipso facto to bear office, and disabled to make any gift, grant, conveyance, or other disposition of any of one's Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, or Chattels, or to take any benefit of any gift, conveyance, or legacy to one's own use. The 1st and 2nd offences are punishable by pecuniary penalties. Any Lord Chancellor or Keeper of the sellor, Judge, or Justice whatsoever, offending 16 Car. 1. c. 10. s. 6. To be at the King's Will of Body, Lands and Goods, thereof to be done as shall please him. Justices being found in default in any of the points contained in the oath required to be taken by them. 18 Edw. 3. st. 4. 20 Edw. 3. c. 1. Artificers, employers of, entering into contracts made ille- gal by the 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 37–101. Assault, with intent to rob, 64. with intent to commit felony, 89. on officers, &c., 69, 89. on gamekeepers, 70. to prevent the arrest of offenders, 50, 89. to raise wages, 89. Assessed taxes, false declarations, relating to surcharges of, 97. Concealment of treason, 1 (ob.) of effects by bankrupt, 17. of birth of child, 91. Confederacies, unlawful, 70. Conies, taking or killing, in the night time, 78. damage in, 61. Constable, assaulting, 90. Conveying anchors, &c., which may have been weighed, them, 51. Coppice, setting fire to, 61. Corn, crops of, setting fire to, 61. preventing the conveyance of, 49. Cotton in manufacture, destroying, 34. Crops, setting fire to, 61. Curtilage, buildings within, but not part of dwelling-house, breaking and stealing in, 37. Cutting and stabbing with intent to murder, 9. with intent to maim, &c., 13. Damaging vessels, otherwise than by fire, 60. Declarations, making false, in cases where declarations are keepers, beating or wounding, 59. Destroying churches, houses, &c., 9. goods in the course of manufacture, 34. sea-banks and works on rivers or canals, 34. hop-binds, 38. wreck, 38. marks in the king's stores, 47. granaries, with intent to hinder the removal of grain, 49. engines used in mines, 60. trees, shrubs, &c., 61. fruit or vegetable production, 61. dams of fisheries, or mill-dams, 70. fish in fisheries, 78. turnpike-gates, toll-houses, &c., 78. Discovery, bankrupt not making, of all his estates, 17. ditto debtor under the Lords' Act, 48. Disfigure, wounding, &c., with intent to, 13. Distress, illegal, 72, 92, 98, 99, 100. Disturbance of religious assemblies, 98. Disturbing elections, 88. Divine service, clergymen refusing to minister, on account Embracery, 98. Engines in mines, destroying, 60. in manufactures, ditto, 34. Enlistment Act, foreign, offences against, 85-87. Escape, aiding the, of prisoners of war, 16 marshals of K. B. suffering prisoners to, 96. of prisoners from custody of persons having charge of of prisoners from prison, 40, 41 (ob.) of convicts from Millbank Penitentiary, 12. of offenders from Parkhurst Prison, 61. of convicts from New South Wales or Van Dieman's Excise, embezzlement by officers of, 73. officers of, rendering false account of the duties col- officers of, delivering out blank or false permits, 87, Exhibiting false signals to ships, 10. Explosive substances, sending, 13. Extorting property by threats, 14. Extortion by officers of the Admiralty, 99. by sheriffs, 100. the name or handwriting of any officer or servant of seals and policies of London and Royal Exchange ditto of Globe Insurance Company, 18 (ob.) the hand-writing of the accountant-general, registrar, the common seal of the English Linen Company, 20. of the handwriting of the treasurer of the ordnance, the handwriting of the receiver-general of the stamp stamps on certain materials, 21. debentures or certificates for payment or return of stamps on vellum, parchment, or paper, 22. ditto on newspapers, 22 (ob.) ditto on gold or silver plate, 22. certificates of commissioners for the issue of Exche- quer bills, for carrying on public works and fishe- the handwriting of the accountant-general, &c., of the certificates and orders as to public salaries, allowances, certificates as to certain stock transferable at the Forgery of exchequer bills, exchequer debentures, East transfers of any public stock, or of certain other stock, deeds, bonds, receipts for money or goods, or account- certificates as to life annuities, 26, 30. wills and powers of attorney to transfer stock, 31. the handwriting of receiver-general, or comptroller- certificates of the slave compensation commissioners, 32. the signature of any assistant record-keeper, or the stamps used by Goldsmith's Company for marking memorial or certificate of registry of lands in York- register or certificate of baptism, marriage, or burial, the copy of any register of baptism, marriage, or burial, the seals of the Dutch Bay Hall in Colchester, 53, 85. the stamp or seal on cambrics and lawns. 55. the hand of the registrar of the Court of Admiralty, the stamps used for marking gold or silver plate by quarantine certificates, 57. Horses, offences against Act regulating places for slaugh- Officers, parish, refusing to call meetings according to the tering, 63, 79. Hot-houses, stealing in, 60. damage in, 61. Houses, setting fire to, 14. breaking, 15, 38. pulling down, &c., 9. stealing in, 37, 38. Manufacture, stealing goods in process of, 38. destroying goods in process of, 38. destroying machines employed in, 34, 60. Market, holding in church-yards, 72. preventing conveyance of corn to, 49. Marriage, forcible, 37. Acts, offences against, 39, 57, 58, 69. Marsh-bank, &c., destroying, 34. Meetings, unauthorized, attending, held for the purpose of drilling to the use of arms, 70, 90. Metal ores, stealing from mines, 59. Mines, injuries to, 14, 60. stealing from, 59. Miscarriage, attempting to procure, 13. of felony, 89. provisions of the 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 60, (for the better public, furnishing false returns of money collected by corporate, hindering the election of other corporate of the forest, illegal imprisonment by, 99. of the Exchequer, extortion by, 101. Orchards, stealing in, 59, 60. damage in, 61. Ores, stealing, from mines, 59. Orphan Asylum, making false declaration for admission Oysters, dredging for, within the limits of oyster fisheries, 97. Oyster-beds, stealing oysters from, 59. damage in, 61. Parkhurst Prison, offenders escaping from, 61. rescuing any offenders ordered to be confined in, 62. carelessly allowing offenders to escape from, 88. Parliament, persons being summoned to, not coming, 92. Penitentiary at Millbank, convict escaping a second time assisting convicts to escape from, 55. rescuing convicts ordered to be confined in, 63. negligently permitting the escape of convicts from, 85. Process, obstructing the execution of, 47, 54, 85. Procuring miscarriage, 13. indictments against judges of the Spiritual Court for matters which pertain to them, 91. Prophecies, fantastical, 70, 92. Public bridges, injuring, 34. Public offices, sale of, 72, 73. Pulling down churches, houses, &c., 9. Pulse, crop of, setting fire to, 61. Quarantine Act, offences against, 57. Quays, thefts on, 38. Rabbits, taking or killing, by night, 70. Receiving stolen goods, 44, 70. with intent to injure the owner, anchors, merchandize, stocking-frames, knowing them to have been sold by Recitals, false, introducing in renewed ecclesiastical leases, 77. Record Office, person employed in, certifying any writing Records, stealing, 67. Obliterating, 67. Register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, inserting 53. Returning from transportation, 10. |