Persons forging, &c. any foreign bill of exchange, &c. or uttering the same knowingly, guilty of felony, and liable for 14 years. VII. iii. Forging Foreign Bills of Exchange, &c. or uttering the same, or unlawfully engraving plates, &c. for such Bills, &c. The Statute 43 G. 3. c. 139. reciting that "the practice of forging and counterfeiting Foreign Bills of Exchange, Foreign Promissory Notes, and Foreign Orders for Payment of Money, hath of late greatly increased, and Plates of such Bills, Notes, and Orders, have been in some instances engraven within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, whereby such Forgeries have been more easily committed, and it is expedient that effectual provision should be made for the preventing of the same," enacts, that if any person, from and after the passing of this Act, shall within any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or to be transported knowingly aid or assist in the false making, forging, or counterfeiting, any Bill of Exchange, or any Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Order for the Payment of Money, purporting to be the Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Orde for the Payment of Money, of any Foreign Prince, State, or Country whatsoever, or of any Minister or Officer entrusted by or employed in the service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Country, or of any Person or Company of Persons resident in any Foreign State or Country, or of any Body Corporate and Politick, and Body in the nature of a Body Corporate and Politick, created or constituted by any Foreign Prince or State, with intent to deceive or defraud His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, or any such Foreign Prince, State, or Country, or with intent to deceive or defraud any Person or Company of Persons whomsoever, or any Body Corporate and Politick, or Body in the nature of a Body Corporate and Politick whatsoever, whether the same be respectively resident, carrying on business, constituted, or being in any part of the United Kingdom,or in any Foreign State or Country, and whether such Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, or Order be in the English Language or in any Foreign Language or Languages, or partly in one and partly in the other; or if any Person, from and after the passing of this Act, shall, within any part of the said United Kingdom, tender in Payment or in Exchange, or otherwise utter or publish as true, any such false, forged, or counterfeited Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Order, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to deceive or . defraud His Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, or any Foreign Prince, State, or Country, or any Person or Company of Persons, or any Body Corporate and Politick, or Body in the nature of a Body Corporate and Politick as aforesaid, then every Person so offending shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of Felony, and being thereof lawfully convicted shall be transported for any term of years not exceeding Fourteen Years. persons engrav exchange, &c. printing them, fence guilty of a misdemeanor, second liable to be transported. for the first of and for the No Person, from and after the passing of this Act, shall within Unauthorized any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ing, &c. plates engrave, cut, etch, scrape, or by any other means or device for such bills of make, or knowingly aid or assist in the engraving, cutting, etching, scraping, or by any other means or device making, in or upon any plate whatsoever, any Bill of Exchange, or any Promissory Note or Undertaking, or Order for the Payment of Money, purporting to be the Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Order of any Foreign Prince, State, or Country, or of any Minister or Officer entrusted by or employed in the Service of any Foreign Prince, State, or Country, or of any Person or Company of Persons resident or being in any Foreign State or Country, or of any Body Corporate and Politick, or Body in the nature of a Body Corporate and Politick, or constituted by any Foreign Prince or State, or any Part of such Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Order, without an Authority in Writing for that purpose from such Foreign Prince, State, or Country, Minister or Officer, Person, Company of Persons, or Body Corporate and Politick, or Body in the nature of a Body Corporate and Politick, or from some Person duly authorized to give such Authority, or shall, within any part of the said United Kingdom, without such Authority as aforesaid, by means of any such Plate, or by any other device or means, make or print any such Foreign Bill of Exchange, Promissory Note, Undertaking, or Order for the Payment of Money, or any part thereof, or knowingly, wilfully, and without lawful excuse, (the proof whereof to lie upon the party accused) have in his or her Custody any such Plate or Device, or any Impression taken from the same; and if any person shall offend in any of the Cases aforesaid, he shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a Misdemeanor and Breach of the Peace, and being thereof convicted according to Law, shall be liable for the first Offence to be imprisoned for any time not exceeding Six Months, or to be fined, or to be publicly or privately whipped, or to suffer one or more of the said punishments; and for the second offence to be transported to any of His Majesty's § 1. Persons being armed and dis in any forest, or in any warren, &c. where hares or conies are kept, and hunting, &c.; Cólonies or Plantations for the term of Fourteen Years; provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, in any manner whatsoever, to repeal or alter any Law or Statute now in force for the prevention and punishment of the Crime of Forgery in any respect whatsoever, within any part of the said United Kingdom. Game. (And see Title CONIES.) §1. Offences relating to Deer. §2. For the preventing of persons going armed in the night for the Destruction of Game in general. If any person or persons, after 1st June 1723, being armed with Swords, Fire-Arms, or other offensive Weapons, and having guised appearing his or their faces blacked, or being otherwise disguised, shall &c. where deer, appear in any Forest, Chase, Park, Paddock, or Grounds inclosed with any Wall, Pale, or other Fence, wherein any Deer have been or shall be usually kept, or in any Warren or Place where Hares or Conies have been or shall be usually kept, or in any high Road, Open Heath, Common, or Down, or shall unlawfully and wilfully hunt, wound, kill, destroy, or steal any Red or Fallow Deer, or unlawfully rob any Warren or Place where Conies or Hares are usually kept, or shall forcibly rescue any Person being lawfully in Custody of any Officer or other person for any of the Offences before mentioned; or if any person or persons shall, by Gift or Promise of Money, or other Reward, procure any of his Majesty's Subjects to join him or them in any such unlawful act ; every Person so offending being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as in cases of Felony without benefit of Clergy. 9 G. 1. c. 22. or forcibly rescuing such offenders; or procuring others to join them in such acts, guilty of felony, without clergy. Certain statutes and parts of statutes relating to Deer, viz. 5 Eliz. c. 21. s. 3, By s. 14. Offenders may be tried in any County in England, and Corruption of Blood is saved. By s. 4, 5, Offenders not surrendering themselves after procla mation, and persons concealing Offenders after the time appointed for such Surrender, are also ousted of Clergy. This Act is made perpetual by 31 G. 2. c. 42. See the above Act at length under Title BLACK ACT. The Statute 16 G. 3. c. 30. s. 1. imposes a pecuniary penalty on persons hunting, killing, &c. Deer in the manner, and being within the place there specified; but this section is repealed by 3 Jac. I. c. 13. S. 2. 7 Jac. 1. c. 13. 13 Car. 2. st. I. 3W. & M. c. 10. G.I. c. 15. and C. 10. 5 10 G. 2. c. 32, s. 7. and s. 9. s. 6. of 42 G. 3. c. 107. (which see post); and by the 27th section issue his warrant to search houses, &c. for venison or engines. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, upon complaint Justice may made to him on oath by any credible Person that there is reason to suspect any Person or Persons of having in his, her, or their custody or possession, or in any Dwelling-house, Outhouse, Yard, Garden, or Place, any Red or Fallow Deer which shall have been unlawfully killed, or the head, skin, or other part thereof, or any Slip, Noose, Toyle, Snare, or other Engine for the unlawful taking of Deer, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to cause such Person and Persons, and such Dwellinghouse, Outhouse, Garden, or Place, to be searched; and if any Penalty on per Red or Fallow Deer, suspected to have been unlawfully killed, sons in whose custody any such or the Head, Skin, or other part thereof, or any Slip, Noose, shall be found, Toyle, Snare, or other Engine, suspected to be used for the &c. unlawful taking or killing of Deer, shall be found in his, her, or their Custody or Possession, or in such Dwelling-house, Outhouse, Garden, or Place, to cause the same and such Person or Persons so having possession, or in whose Dwelling-house, Outhouse, Garden, or other Place the same shall be found, to be brought before any Justice of the Peace having Jurisdiction; and if such Person or Persons shall not produce before such Justice the Party of whom he, she, or they received the same, or satisfy such Justice that he, she, or they came lawfully by such Deer, or the Head, Skin, or other part thereof, or had a lawful occasion for such Slip, Noose, Toyle, Snare, or other Engine, or did not keep the same for any unlawful purpose, then every such Person shall forfeit any Sum not exceeding Thirty Pounds, nor less than Ten Pounds, at the discretion of such Justice. 16 G. 3. c. 30. s. 4. X Justices may examine every person through whose hands such venison, &c. has passed. The first receiver of such venison, &c. liable to a penalty. Suspected persons having had venison & c. in ed against as if it was found in their possession. If any Red or Fallow Deer, suspected to have been unlawfully killed, or the Head, Skin, or other part of such Deer, shall, on a Search under a Warrant from any Justice of the Peace, be found in the Possession or Custody of any Person or Persons, or in any Dwelling-house, Outhouse, Garden, or other Place, or shall be proved to have been in the Possession, House, Outhouse, Garden, or Place of any Person or Persons who may be justly suspected to have come dishonestly or unlawfully by the same as aforesaid; and such Person or Persons so in Possession, or the Owner or Occupier of such Dwelling-house, Outhouse, Garden, or other Place, shall not, under the Provisions aforesaid, be liable to Conviction; then and in every such case, for the discovery of the Party or Parties who actually killed or stole such Deer, it shall and may be lawful to and for any Justice of the Peace having Jurisdiction, as the Evidence given and the Circumstances of the Case shall require, to summon before him, at his discretion, every Person through whose hands such Deer, or the Head, Skin, or other part thereof so found, shall appear to have passed; and if the Person and Persons from whom such Deer, or the Head, Skin, or other part thereof, shall appear to have been first received, or who, having had Possession thereof, shall not give proof to the satisfac tion of such Justice, that he, she, or they came lawfully by the same, such Person or Persons shall, on every Conviction, forfeit and pay any Sum not exceeding Thirty Pounds, nor less than Ten Pounds, at the discretion of such Justice. 16 G. 3. c. 30. s. 5. In case it shall appear, on the oath of a credible Witness, that any Person or Persons hath or have had in his, her, or their their possession, Possession, House, Outhouse, Garden, or Place, any Red or may be proceed- Fallow Deer, or the Skin, Head, or other part thereof, and shall be reasonably suspected to have come dishonestly or unlawfully thereby, then and in every such case, every such Person or Persons, and all other Persons through whose hands the same shall appear to have passed under the like suspicion, shall and may be proceeded against in like Manner and Form, and on Conviction shall be subject and liable to the same Penalty or Penalties, as if such Deer, or the Head, Skin, or other Part thereof, had been found in the Possession, House, Outhouse, Garden or Place of such Person or Persons, upon a Search made under and by virtue of any such Warrant as aforesaid. s. 6. Penalty on persons pulling down pales or If any Person or Persons shall at any time wilfully pull down or destroy, or cause to be wilfully pulled down or destroyed, the |