Bastards (Petty Sessions).

I. Forms given in the act 8 Vict. c. 10, for proceedings under 7 & 8 Vict.
c. 101-Application by woman with child, 410; summons thereon,
411; application by a woman after birth, 411; summons there-
on, 412; application where the father has paid money within
twelve months after birth, 412; summons thereon, 413; order on
application by woman with child, 413; order on application by
woman after birth, 415; recognizance to appeal, 417; information
of mother on disobedience of the order, 417; declaration of service
of the order, 418; deposition of the service of the order, 419;
warrant of apprehension of father, 419; warrant of distress, 420;
recognizance for appearance on return of distress warrant, 421;
commitment on confession of no goods, 422; commitment in
default of distress, 423; appointment of guardian to the bastard
child, 425.

II. Other forms-Summons of a witness, 426; warrant on disobedience,
426; commitment of witness for refusing to give evidence, 426;
notice of appeal against an order in bastardy, 427; notice of re-
cognizance to appeal, 427; notice to mother and justice by father
of his having entered into recognizance to appeal, 427; notice to
mother and justice by father of abandonment of appeal, 428;
notice of recognizance for appearance at the return of distress
warrant, 428; justices' clerk's return of summonses, orders made,
&c., to clerk of the peace, 428.

Bawdy-house, see Disorderly House."

Beast confined, stealing, 149, 150; receiving or having it, 150.
Beating or wounding deerkeepers, 142, 298.

Beerhouses.

I. Offences against the Licence-For mixing drugs, &c., in beer, &c. 79;
diluting or adulterating liquor, 80; selling adulterated liquor, 80;
not using standard measure, 80; permitting drunkenness, 80;
permitting disorderly conduct, 80; suffering unlawful games, 80;
suffering gaming, 80; permitting persons of notoriously bad cha-
racter to assemble, 80; not maintaining good order, 80; summons
to defendant, 80; forms to be used in enforcing the conviction,
81; adjudication disqualifying offender from selling beer, &c., for
two years, on conviction for a third offence, 81.

II. Offences as to Hours-Keeping open after eleven o'clock at night
within the bills of mortality, 81; the like, within a town corporate
or place containing a population exceeding 2500..81; the like,
within a country parish containing a population exceeding 2500..
81; the like, within a mile from a polling place for a town having
2500 inhabitants, 81; keeping open after ten o'clock at night in
other places, 82; selling or retailing beer during the same times,
82; keeping open before five o'clock in the morning, 82; keeping
open during the time alehouses closed (i. e. now the afternoon
divine service), 82; opening house or selling before twelve o'clock
on Sunday morning or afternoon, &c. 82.
III. Other Offences-Selling without licence, 82; not having a de-
scriptive board over door, 82; overseer refusing to grant certificate
of rating, &c. 83; the like, of newly-erected houses, 83; overseer
falsely certifying house to be rated, 83; overseer or other person
falsely certifying a person to be resident, 83; the like, of rent, or
annual value, 83; the like, granting any certificate false in any
other respect, 84; forging a certificate, 84; producing or making
use of forged certificate, 84; adjudication of forfeiture of licence
granted upon forged certificate upon conviction, 84; notice to the
excise of adjudication, 84; permitting wine or spirits, &c., to be
brought into house, 84; suffering wine, &c., to be drunk in house,

Beerhouses-continued.
85; selling by other than standard measure, 85; not producing
licence to justice when required, 85; selling beer, &c., made
otherwise than from malt and hops, 85; mixing, &c., drugs, &c.,
in beer sold, 85; fraudulently diluting or adulterating beer, 85;
adjudication on a second offence, 85; person, previously convicted
and disqualified, selling, 85; other person selling on premises
during period disqualified, 86; selling after having been convicted
of felony and thereby disqualified, or of selling spirits without
licence, 86; forms to be used in enforcing the conviction, 86.
IV. Proceedings against Sureties of Beerhouse Keeper-Information to
ground summons to sureties to show cause why the penalty in
bond should not be paid to satisfy penalty on conviction, 86;
summons to the sureties, 87; order and adjudication upon sureties
for the penalty, 87; forms of enforcing the order, 87.

V. Proceedings on Appeal against Conviction for a Third Offence, 87.
Justices' order to close, in case of riots, 537.

Begging alms in street, &c. 225; causing child to beg, 225.

Bestiality, see "Sodomy."

Betting at games of chance in the street or highways, 230; cheating at
play, 323.

Betting houses; occupier keeping room, &c., for betting, &c. 87; permit-
ting room, &c., to be used for betting, 88; persons having the
management of room, 88; receiving money as a deposit on a bet,
88; person giving acknowledgment on receipt of deposit money,
88; exhibiting placard of betting house, 89; inciting persons to
resort to betting houses, 88; general forms to be used in enforcing
the convictions, 89; see further "Gaming Houses."

Bigamy, 303.

Billets of soldiers, see "Alehouses" and "Military Law."

Billiard tables, see "Gaming Houses."

Binding over party to prosecute and witness, recognizance for, 280; com-
mitment of witness for refusing, 281; subsequent order to dis-
charge the witness, 282.

Bird, confined, stealing, 149, 150; receiving or having it, 150.

Birth of a child, mother concealing by burying, &c. 310.

Black game, killing, out of season, 119.

Blasphemous libels, publishing, 303; see "Libels."

Board of guardians of poor law union, authority by, to their officers to pro-
secute, 184, 185; recovery of contribution due to, from overseers,
393-395; see further "Poor."

Bodies, dead, see "Dead Bodies,"

Bond, forging, uttering, &c. 319; stealing, 325.

Bonfire, making, near a highway, 137; the like, near turnpike road, 217.
Books, order for restoration of, to a parish library, 429.

Booth, placing, on highway, 136; the like, on turnpike road, 217.
Boroughs, offending against bye-laws of, 94; assaulting, &c. constables of,
100, 101; precept appointing special constables for, in October
annually, 361; summons to be sworn, 361; certificate of oath, 362.

Breach of the peace, see "Sureties."

Breach of duty as a peace officer, see the various divisions of the title "Con-
stables," punishable summarily; indictable, 311.

Bread and flour, for offences beyond the bills of mortality, and ten miles of
the Royal Exchange ;-selling, &c., bread not marked, 89; special
adjudication in conviction, 90; adulterating bread, 90; adulter-
ating flour, &c. 90; selling, &c., flour, &c., adulterated, or one sort

Bread and flour-continued.

for another, 90; information to ground search warrant for adul-
terated bread or flour, 90; search warrant thereon, 90; having
ingredients for adulterating, 91; advertisement of offender's name
for newspaper, 91; obstructing the search for adulterated flour,
&c. 91; opposing carrying away ingredients seized, 91; not selling
by weight, 91; not using avoirdupoise weight, 92; not providing
scales and weights, &c. 92; using false or incorrect beam, 92;
using false weights, 92; delivering bread without being provided
with scales, &c. 92; baking on Sundays, &c. 92; opposing execu-
tion of act, 93; complaint by a master convicted, that the penalty
was occasioned by the wilful neglect of his journeyman, warrant
and order, 93; warrant and order thereon, 93; general forms to be
used in enforcing the convictions, 93.

Breaking and entering, see " Burglary” and “ Housebreaking."
Breaking down the dam of a fish or mill pond, 333.

Breaking down bridges or banks of rivers, 333.

Bribery; constable taking a bribe, or person offering same, 303.

Bridge, throwing down stones from, set up by surveyors, 136; damaging
(indictable), 333, 334.

Building, erecting, on highway, 135; the like, on a turnpike road, 220.
Building within the curtilage, breaking and entering and stealing therein,
324; stealing from a, 328; see "Housebreaking.”

Building erected so as to be a nuisance, see "Nuisances."'

Bull-baiting, see “ Badger," " Cruelty to Animals.”

Burglary; entering a dwelling-house by night with intent to commit felony,
304; entering a dwelling-house by night, and stealing therein,
304; being therein and committing a felony, and breaking out in
the night time, 304; entering and breaking out in the night time
without committing a felony, 304; the like, and using violence to
persons therein, 304.

Buying counterfeit coin, 308; game unlawfully, 119, 120; the arms or clothes
of soldiers, 175.

Bye-laws of boroughs, offending against, 94; of railways, 194-197; see
"Railways."

Calf, stealing, 305; wounding, &c. 305; ill-treating, see "Cruelty to Ani-
mals."

Canal, damaging bank, &c., of, 333; constables on, see " Constables."
Cannel coal, setting fire to mines of, 295; stealing from mines, 142, 327.
Caption, of depositions of witnesses in indictable offences, 275; the like, on
the remand day, 276; of prisoner's statement, 276; of a petty ses-
sions, 413; of special sessions, 359, 362, 374, 403.

Carnally knowing female children under ten years of age, 304; above ten
and under twelve years of age, 304.

Cart, not having owner's name on, on highway, 132, 133; the like, on turn-
pike road, 213, 215.

Cattle, stealing, 305; killing with intent to steal, 305; maliciously killing,
&c. 305; see "Cruelty to Animals" and "Horse-slaughtering."
Cattle, driving them on causeway of highway, 135; on turnpike road, 213.
Cattle, slaughtering, near a turnpike road, 217.

Causeway, see "Footway."

Caution to a person accused of an indictable offence embodied in statement,
276.

Cemeteries; damaging the cemetery, 94; committing nuisances in, 95.
Certificate of non-appearance on recognizance in summary convictions
where hearing adjourned, 29; in indictable offences, where remand
and examination adjourned, 272.

Certificate of dismissal of an information or complaint, 35.

Certificate of clerk of the peace that the costs of an appeal are not paid, 63.
Certificate of indictment being found against a person at large to autho-
rize a warrant, 268.

Certificate of gaoler of receipt of prisoner, 60, 288; of money found on an
accused in indictable offences, 288.

Certificate of consent to bail by examining justice, on back of commitment
for trial, 278; the like, on a separate paper, 284.

Certificate of justices of viewing highway proposed to be stopped up, where
the proposal does not emanate from the vestry, 449; the like,
where it does, 451; the like, after order and making of new high-
way, 452.

Certificate, examining magistrate's, of expenses incurred by the prosecutor
previous to committal for trial, 289.

Certificate, sporting without, 117, 248, 249.

Certificate of justices of capital subscribed to railway, 527.

Certiorari, recognizance to prosecute, 555.

Challenge, provoking to send a, 305; sending, 305; taking, 305.

Chapel, setting fire to, 294; disturbing congregation in church, 306; dis-
turbing congregation of dissenters, 306; riotously demolishing,
347.

Character of servant, giving a false one, 166; forging or altering same, 167.
Chase belonging to the crown, see "Game."

Cheating at play, 323; see" Conspiracies."

Child, stealing, 305; receiving or harbouring, 305; concealing birth of,
310; cruelty to, 312; deserting by leaving in street, 312; de-
serting, whereby it becomes chargeable, 230.

Chimney sweepers, allowing any person under twenty-one to sweep, 95;
making chimney of wrong construction, 95.

Christmas-day, not closing alehouses on, 68, 69; the like, beerhouses, 82;
killing game on, 118, 119.

Church, see 66 Chapel."

Church rates, recovery of, from others than Quakers, 429; the like, from
Quakers, 430.

Clergymen, arresting, on way to or during divine service, 307.

Clerk of petty sessions, monthly account of fines, &c., received by, 61.
Clerks to justices, table of fees to, under customs acts, 244, 245; as to in-
quiries into wrecks, 552.

Clerks, embezzlement by, 315; larceny by, 329; the like, three larcenies
within six months, 329.

Club, forcing a workman to belong to, 96.

Coaches, stage, furiously driving and injuring persons, 350, 351.

Coals, selling by other than weight, 95.

Coal mine, stealing from, 142, 327; setting fire to, 295.

Cockfighting, keeping a house or place for, 105.

Codicil to a will, forging, 319; stealing, destroying or concealing, 326.
Coin; information to ground search warrant for counterfeit coin, or tools, &c.
307; search warrant thereon, 307; counterfeiting gold or silver
coin, 307, 308; gilding or silvering coin, 308; impairing gold or
silver coin, 308; buying counterfeit coin, 308; importing counter-
feit coin, 308; uttering counterfeit gold or silver coin, 308, 309;
the like, a second offence, 309; uttering counterfeit gold or silver
coin, and then having others in possession, 309; uttering twice
within ten days, 309; having possession of counterfeit coin with
intent to utter same, 309; making, or mending, or having coining
tools, 309; conveying tools or coin, &c. out of Mint without autho-
rity, 310; counterfeiting copper coin, or making, or mending,
selling, receiving, or having in possession, without authority, any
tools, &c. for such coin, 310; uttering false copper coin, or having
possession of three or more pieces thereof with intent to utter, 310.
Colliers, see" Manufactures, &c."

Collector of rates for highways, not rendering account, 131, 452, 453.
of tolls on turnpike road, see

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Turnpike Roads."

Colt, stealing, &c. 305; wounding, 305; maliciously killing, &c. 305; see
"Cruelty to Animals."

Combination, forcing a workman to leave work, &c. 95; the like, to belong
to a club, &c. 96; the like, master to alter his mode of trade, &c.
96.

Commitments (in summary convictions and orders); for safe custody of de-
fendant during an adjournment of the hearing, 28, 29; of a witness
for refusing to be sworn or to give evidence, 31; the like, for a
penalty for not attending to give evidence, &c. 33; of complainant
for want of distress for costs on dismissal, 37; the like, on con-
fession of no goods, &c. 37; of defendant, on a conviction, where
the punishment is by imprisonment, 44; the like, on an order, 54;
the like, for want of distress for the costs on a conviction, 46; on
an order, 54; the like, forthwith, on confession of no goods, &c.
46, 55; for a penalty in the first instance, 48; on an order, 56;
upon a conviction where the distress would be ruinous, 49; on an
order, 57; the like, for want of distress on a conviction, 51; on an
order, 58; for a consecutive period, 51; for a second or subsequent
offence, 52; for want of distress for the costs of an appeal against a
conviction or order, 64; indorsement in backing a commitment, 27.
Commitments (in indictable offences); of a person indicted, 269; of
foreigners committing offences in France and America and es-
caping to this country, 270; remanding a prisoner, 271; of a
witness for refusing to be sworn or to give evidence, 274; the like,
if the witness attends without a summons, 275; of accused for trial,
270; the like, where brought up on remand, 277; of witness for
refusing to enter into the recognizance, 281; of the person charged
on surrender of his bail, 286; the like, where apprehended by the
bail, without warrant, 287.

Commitments in other matters, see the various titles.

Common gaming house, keeping, 124; and see "
Common informer, information by, 25.

Gaming Houses."

Commons, &c., turning out scabbed sheep, 96; complaint to a justice for a
warrant to remove sheep, &c., infected, 96; warrant thereon, 97;
notice to the owner from the complainant of the examination, 97;
complaint by the owner of expenses incurred, where the sheep are