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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.
1 Eliz. c. 4. s. 24.

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
trades mentioned in the 1 & 2 W. 4. c. 37,
(an Act to prohibit the payment, in certain
trades, of wages in goods, or otherwise than in
the current coin of the realm,) by himself, or by >1
the agency of any other person or persons,
directly or indirectly entering into any contract
or making any payment declared illegal by the
said Act (for the third offence).

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
Great Seal of England, Lord Treasurer, Keeper
of the King's Privy Seal, President of the
Council, Bishop, Temporal Lord, Privy Coun-

sellor, Judge, or Justice whatsoever, offending 16 Car. 1. c. 10. s. 6.
or doing anything contrary to the purport, true
intent, and meaning of the 16 Car. 1. c. 10
(an Act for the regulating of the Privy Council,
and for taking away the Court commonly called
the Star Chamber)-for the third offence.

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.

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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.

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Concealment of treason, 1 (ob.)
of felony, 89.

of effects by bankrupt, 17.

of birth of child, 91.

Confederacies, unlawful, 70.

Conies, taking or killing, in the night time, 78.
Conservatories, stealing in, 60,

damage in, 61.

Constable, assaulting, 90.

Conveying anchors, &c., which may have been weighed,
swept for, &c., to foreign ports, and there selling

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.
Dams, destroying, 70.

Declarations, making false, in cases where declarations are
substituted for oaths by Oaths Abolition Act, 77.
Ditto, under the 6 & 7 W. 4, c. 5 (for facilitating the
distribution of the compensation for slaves), 77.
Deeds, relating to real estate, stealing of, 67.
Deer stealing, 59.

keepers, beating or wounding, 59.

Destroying churches, houses, &c., 9.

goods in the course of manufacture, 34.
machines employed in manufacture, 34, 60.
threshing-machines, &c., 60.

sea-banks and works on rivers or canals, 34.
public bridges, 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.
buoys, 62.

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
of fulminations of interdictions, &c., 92.

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Embracery, 98.

Engines in mines, destroying, 60.

in manufactures, ditto, 34.

Enlistment Act, foreign, offences against, 85-87.
Entry, forcible, on lands, 80, 81.

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
them, 47.

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
Land, 82.

Excise, embezzlement by officers of, 73.

officers of, rendering false account of the duties col-
lected by them, 81.

officers of, delivering out blank or false permits, 87,
assaulting officers of, 69, 89.

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.

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the name or handwriting of any officer or servant of
the Commissioners of the Royal Hospital of Chel-
sea, or any writing relating to prize money, 15.
seals or bonds of South Sea Company, 17.
receipts and warrants of ditto, 18.

seals and policies of London and Royal Exchange
Assurance Companies, 18.

ditto of Globe Insurance Company, 18 (ob.)
certain annuity orders, 18, 19.

the hand-writing of the accountant-general, registrar,
clerk of the Report-office, of the Court of Chancery,
or of the cashier of the Bank, to any instrument
relating to suitors' money, 19.
Mediterranean passes, 19.

the common seal of the English Linen Company, 20.
certificates of commissioners for the reduction of the
national debt, 20.

of the handwriting of the treasurer of the ordnance,
&c., to any draft, &c., on the bank, 20.

the handwriting of the receiver-general of the stamp
duties, or of his clerk, or of the commissioners of
stamps to any draft, &c., on the Bank, 21.
contracts, certificates, &c., relating to the redemption
of the Land Tax, 21.

stamps on certain materials, 21.

debentures or certificates for payment or return of
money, required by statutes relating to the Customs
or Excise, 21, 22.

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-
ries in the United Kingdom, 23, 24.

the handwriting of the accountant-general, &c., of the
Court of Exchequer, 23.

certificates and orders as to public salaries, allowances,
&c., 24, 25.

certificates as to certain stock transferable at the
Banks of England and Ireland respectively, 25.
the handwriting of the receiver-general of Excise, or
Excise comptroller of cash, or other person duly
authorized, to any draft, &c., upon the Bank, 25.
stamps relating to cards and dice, 25.
certificates, &c., in order to obtain pay or prize-
money due in respect of services performed by any
person in the royal navy, 27.

Forgery of exchequer bills, exchequer debentures, East
India bonds, bank notes, bills of exchange, pro-
missory notes or warrants, or orders for the pay-
ment of money, 28.

transfers of any public stock, or of certain other stock,
powers of attorney to transfer the same, or to receive
dividends thereon, 29.

deeds, bonds, receipts for money or goods, or account-
able receipts, or orders for the delivery of goods, 29.
entries in registers of baptism, marriage, or burial, or
marriage licences, &c., 30.

certificates as to life annuities, 26, 30.

wills and powers of attorney to transfer stock, 31.
certificates of commissioners for granting relief to
Trinidad, British Guiana, St. Lucie, and the Island
of Dominica, 31 and ob.

the handwriting of receiver-general, or comptroller-
general of the Customs, 32.

certificates of the slave compensation commissioners,

32.

the signature of any assistant record-keeper, or the
seal of the public record-office, 37.

stamps used by Goldsmith's Company for marking
gold or silver plate, &c., 38, 49.

memorial or certificate of registry of lands in York-
shire or Middlesex, 41, 42.

register or certificate of baptism, marriage, or burial,
in order to sustain any claim to wages or other
allowance due in respect of the services of any
officer, &c., in Her Majesty's navy, 42.
declaration of return of insurance, 50.
ditto on contract of insurance, 50 (ob.)
the superscription of a post letter, 50.
the seal of the British Society for extending the fishe-
ries, and improving the sea coasts of the kingdom, 51.
certificates or bills of exchange mentioned in the 2 &
3 W. 4. c. 106 (for enabling officers, &c., in the
army to draw for their half-pay and allowances), 52.
the attestation to any power of attorney for transfer of
stock, 53.

the copy of any register of baptism, marriage, or burial,
transmitted to the registrar, 53.

the seals of the Dutch Bay Hall in Colchester, 53, 85.
stamps on hides and skins, 54.

the stamp or seal on cambrics and lawns. 55.
the stamp or seal of the commissioners for managing
the duties on silk, 55.

the hand of the registrar of the Court of Admiralty,
or the bank receipts for suitors' money, 55.

the stamps used for marking gold or silver plate by
the "Guardians of the Standard of wrought Plate
in Birmingham," 56.

quarantine certificates, 57.

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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.

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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.
Misprision of treason, 1 (ob.)

of felony, 89.

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provisions of the 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 60, (for the better
regulation of vestries), 74.

public, furnishing false returns of money collected by
them, 81.

corporate, hindering the election of other corporate
officers, 95.

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
into, 90.

Oysters, dredging for, within the limits of oyster fisheries,

97.

Oyster-beds, stealing oysters from, 59.
Park, stealing in, 59.

damage in, 61.

Parkhurst Prison, offenders escaping from, 61.

rescuing any offenders ordered to be confined in, 62.
knowingly allowing offenders to escape from, 62.
assisting offenders to escape from, 62.

carelessly allowing offenders to escape from, 88.

Parliament, persons being summoned to, not coming, 92.
member of, making false declaration of his qualifica-
tion, 78.

Penitentiary at Millbank, convict escaping a second time
from, 12.

assisting convicts to escape from, 55.

rescuing convicts ordered to be confined in, 63.

negligently permitting the escape of convicts from,

85.

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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.
Rape, 9.

Receiving stolen goods, 44, 70.

with intent to injure the owner, anchors, merchandize,
&c., which may have been weighed or swept for,
&c., 68.

stocking-frames, knowing them to have been sold by
workmen, 94.

Recitals, false, introducing in renewed ecclesiastical leases,

77.

Record Office, person employed in, certifying any writing
to be a true copy of a record, knowing the same to
be false, 37.

Records, stealing, 67.

Obliterating, 67.

Register of baptisms, marriages, and burials, inserting
false entries in copy of, transmitted to the registrar,
Rescue, 11.

53.

Returning from transportation, 10.

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