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No. III.

3 & 4 W. 4,

c. 97.

resemble, either wholly or in part, any die, plate, or other instrument which at any time whatever hath been or shall or may be provided, made, or used, by or under the direction of the commissioners of stamps, for the purpose of expressing or denoting any stamp duty whatever; or if any person shall knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused) have in his possession any vellum, parchment, or paper having thereon the impression of any such false, forged, or counterfeit die, plate, or other instrument, or part of any such die, plate, or other instrument as aforesaid, or having thereon any false, forged, or counterfeit stamp, mark, or impression resembling or representing, either wholly or in part, or intended or liable to pass or be mistaken for, the stamp, mark, or impression of any such die, plate, or other instrument which hath been or shall or may be so provided, made, or used as aforesaid, knowing such false, forged, or counterfeit stamp, mark, or impression to be false, forged, or counterfeit; or if any or fraudulently person shall fraudulently use, join, fix, or place for, with, or upon any affixing stamps, vellum, parchment, or paper any stamp, mark, or impression which &c.; shall have been cut, torn, or gotten off or removed from any other vellum, parchment, or paper; or if any person shall fraudulently erase, or erasing cut, scrape, discharge, or get out of or from any stamped vellum, parch- names, dates, ment, or paper any name, sum, date, or other matter or thing thereon &c. with intent written, printed, or expressed, with intent to use any stamp or mark to use the then impressed, or being upon such vellum, parchment, or paper, or stamps again; that the same may be used for any deed, instrument, matter, or thing in respect whereof any stamp duty is or shall or may be or become payable; or if any person shall knowingly use, utter, sell, or expose to sale, or knowingly or shall knowingly and without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall using any lie on the person accused) have in his possession any stamped vellum, stamped velparchment, or paper from or off or out of which any such name, sum, date, lum, &c. from which any or other matter or thing as aforesaid shall have been fraudulently erased, cut, scraped, discharged, or gotten as aforesaid; then and in &c. shall have every such case every person so offending, and every person knowingly been frauduand wilfully aidin, abetting, or assisting any person in committing any lently erased; such offence, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be guilty of felony. 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 nor less

than two years.

name, date,

or stamps, or in the commission of other felonious acts,

may be

XIII. That on any information given before any justice of the peace Houses of perupon the oath of one or more credible person or persons (which oath sons suspected such justice is hereby empowered to administer), that there is just cause of being conto suspect any person of being or having been in any way engaged or cerned in the concerned in making any false or counterfeit die, plate, or other instru- forging of dies ment, or unlawfully marking or impressing any stamp, mark, or impression on any vellum, parchment, or paper with any such die, plate, or instrument; or in the unlawful possession of any forged or counterfeit die, plate, or instrument, or of any vellum, parchment, or paper with any counterfeit stamp, mark, or impression thereon; or in unlawfully searched. or fraudulently or without due authority, marking or impressing any lawful stamp on any vellum, parchment, or paper, or in causing or procuring the same to be so marked or impressed, or in aiding, abetting, or assisting in so marking or impressing the same; or in the unlawful possession of any vellum, parchment, or paper, or other material, unlawfully or fraudulently or without due authority stamped or marked, contrary to any of the provisions or regulations contained in any act relating to stamp duties; or of being or having been in any way engaged or concerned in the fraudulent erasing, cutting, scraping, discharging, or getting out of or from or off any stamped vellum, parchment, or paper any matter or thing thereon written, printed, or expressed; or in the unlawful possession of any stamped vellum, parchment, or paper from or off or out of which any matter or thing shall have been fraudulently erased, cut, scraped, discharged, or gotten as aforesaid, then and in

No. III.

3 & 4 W. 4,

c. 97.

every or any of the said cases it shall be lawful for such justice by warrant under his hand to cause any and every dwelling house, room, workshop, out-house, or other building, yard, garden, or other place belonging to such suspected person, or where any such person shall be suspected of being or of having been in any way engaged or concerned in the commission of any such offence as aforesaid, or of secreting any such die, plate, or instrument, or any such vellum, parchment, or paper, or any of the machinery, implements, or utensils necessary or applicable to the commission of any such offence as aforesaid, to be searched for any such stamped vellum, parchment, or paper, and for any such die, plate, or instrument, machinery, implement, or utensil, or other matter or thing as aforesaid; and if any of the said several matters and things shall be found in any place so searched, or in the custody or possession of any person whatsoever not having the same by some lawful authority, it shall be lawful for the person finding any such matters or things to seize the same respectively, and to carry the same forthwith to the justice by whom such warrant shall be granted, or to any other justice of the peace having jurisdiction where the same shall be seized, who shall cause the same to be secured and produced in evidence against any person who shall or may be prosecuted in any court of justice for any of the offences aforesaid; and afterwards the said matters and things so seized, whether produced in evidence or not, shall, by order of the court or judge before whom such offender shall be fried, or by order of some justice of the peace in case there shall be no such trial, be delivered over to the commissioners of stamps, to be defaced or destroyed, or otherwise disposed of, as the said commissioners shall think fit.

36 G. 3, (I)

52 G.3, c. 143,

[No. IV.] 5 & 6 W 4, c. 81.-An Act for abolishing Capital
Punishments in Cases of Letter Stealing and Sacrilege.
[10th September 1835.]
WHEREAS by an act made and passed in the parliament of Ireland
in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his Majesty king George the
third, intituled An Act to further explain and amend an Act passed in the
Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of His present Majesty's Reign,
intituled An Act for establishing a Post Office within this Kingdom,' and
to explain and amend an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of His pre-
sent Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to explain and amend an Act
passed in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Years of His present Ma-
jesty's Reign, intituled "An Act for establishing a Post Office within this
Kingdom,'
," and by an act made and passed in the fifty-second year of
the reign of his said Majesty king George the third, intituled An Act
for amending and reducing into One Act the Provisions contained in any
Laws now in force imposing the Penalty of Death for any Act done in
Breach of or in Resistance to any Part of the Laws for collecting His Ma-
jesty's Revenue in Great Britain, it is amongst other things enacted, that
if any person whatsoever employed by or under the post office of Great
Britain, receiving, stamping, sorting, charging, carrying, conveying, or
delivering letters or packets, or in any other business relating to the
said office, shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any letter or packet, or
bag or mail of letters, with which he or she shall have been entrusted in
consequence of such employment, or which shall in any other manner
have come to his or her hands or possession whilst so employed, con-
taining the whole or any part or parts of any bank note, bank post bill,
bill of exchange, exchequer bill, South Sea or East India bond, dividend
warrant, either of the bank, South Sea, East India, or any other com-
pany, society, or corporation, navy or victualling or transport bill,
ordnance debenture, seaman's ticket, state lottery ticket or certificate,
bank receipt for payment on any loan, note of assignment of stock in

No. IV.

c. 81.

the funds, letter of attorney for receiving annuities or dividends or for selling stock in the funds or belonging to any company, society, or cor- 5 & 6 W. 4, poration, American provincial bill of credit, goldsmith's or banker's letter of credit or note for or relating to the payment of money, or other bond or warrant, draft, bill, or promissory note whatsoever for the payment of money, or shall steal and take out of any letter or packet with which he or she shall have been so entrusted, or which shall have come to his or her hands or possession, the whole or any part or parts of any such bank note, bank post bill, bill of exchange, exchequer bill, South Sea or East India bond, dividend warrant, either of the bank, South Sea, East India, or other company, society, or corporation, naval or victualling or transport bill, ordnance debenture, seaman's ticket, state lottery ticket or certificate, bank receipt for payment of any loan, note of assignment of stock in the funds, letter of attorney for receiving annuities or dividends or for selling stocks in the funds belonging to any company, society, or corporation, American provincial bill of credit, goldsmith's or banker's letter of credit or note for or relating to the payment of money, or other bond or warrant, draft, bill, or promissory note whatsoever for the payment of money, every person so offending, being thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy: And whereas in and by the said recited act it is further enacted, That if any person shall steal and take from any carriage, or from the possession of any person employed to convey letters sent by the post of Great Britain, or from or out of any post office, or house or place for the receipt or delivery of letters or packets, or bags or mails of letters sent or to be sent by such post, any letter or packet, or bag or mail of letters sent or to be sent by such post, or shall steal and take any letter or packet out of any such bag or mail, every person so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy: And whereas in and by the said recited act it is further enacted, That if any person shall counsel, command, hire, persuade, procure, aid, or abet any such deputy, clerk, agent, letter carrier, post boy or rider, or any officer or person whatsoever employed by or under the said office, in receiving, stamping, sorting, charging, carrying, conveying, or delivering letters or packets, or in any other business relating to the said office, to commit any of the offences in the said recited act, and herein-before mentioned, or shall, with a fraudulent intention, buy or receive the whole or any part or parts of any such security or instrument as in the said recited act and herein-before described, which shall have been contained in, and which at the time of buying or receiving thereof he or she shall know to have been contained in, any such letter or packet so secreted, embezzled, stolen, or taken by any deputy, clerk, agent, letter carrier, post boy, or rider, or any other officer or person so employed as aforesaid, or which such person so buying or receiving as aforesaid shall at the time of buying or receiving thereof know to have been contained in and stolen and taken out of any letter or packet stolen and taken from or out of any mail or bag of letters sent and conveyed by such post, or from or out of any post office, or house or place for the receipt or delivery of letters or packets, or bags or mails of letters sent or to be sent by such post, every person so offending, and being thereof convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and suffer death as a felon, without benefit of clergy, and should and might be tried, convicted, and attainted of such felony as well before as after the trial or conviction of the principal felon, and whether the said principal felon should have been apprehended, or should be amenable to justice, or not: And whereas by an act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign 7 & 8 G. 4, of king George the fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amend- c. 29.

ing the Laws in England relative to Larceny and other Offences connected

therewith, and by another act made and passed in the ninth year of his said 9 G. 4, c. 55. Majesty's reign, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected therewith, it is

No. IV.

c. 81.

amongst other things enacted, That if any person shall break and enter 5 & 6 W. 4, any church or chapel, and steal therein any chattel, or having stolen any chattel in any church or chapel shall break out of the same, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon: And whereas it is expedient that a lesser punishment than that of death should be provided for the punishment of the offenders convicted of any of the offences so specified in the said act of the fifty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the third, and in the said act of the seventh and eighth years of the reign of king George the fourth: So much of the Be it therefore enacted, &c., That so much of each of the said acts as recited acts as inflicts the punishment of death upon persons convicted of any of the inflicts the pu- offences therein and herein-before specified shall be and the same is death for letter hereby repealed, and that from and after the passing of this act every stealing and person convicted of any of the offences in the said act so specified, or of sacrilege reaiding or abetting, counselling or procuring the commission thereof, pealed, and shall be liable to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term transportation not less than 'seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard substituted. labour, in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not ex. ceeding four years.

nishment of

PART V.

CLASS XV.

OFFENCES RELATING TO QUARANTINE.

[There has been no statute upon this subject since the 6 G. 4, c. 78.]

PART V.

CLASS XVI.

FELONY RELATING TO THE SLAVE TRADE.

[No. I.] An Act to reduce the Rates of Bounties payable
upon the Seizure of Slaves.
[16th July 1830.]

[No. II.] An Act for carrying into effect Two Conventions
with the King of the French for suppressing the Slave
Trade.
[28th August 1833.]

[No. III.] 3 & 4 W. IV. c. 73.-An Act for the abolition
of Slavery throughout the British Colonies; for promoting
the Industry of the manumitted Slaves; and for compensat-
ing the Persons hitherto entitled to the services of such
Slaves (1.)
[28th August 1833.]
WHEREAS divers persons are holden in slavery within divers of his
Majesty's colonies, and it is just and expedient that all such per-
sons should be manumitted and set free, and that a reasonable compen-
sation should be made to the persons hitherto entitled to the services of
such slaves for the loss which they will incur by being deprived of their
right to such services: And whereas it is also expedient that provision
should be made for promoting the industry and securing the good con-
duct of the persons so to be manumitted, for a limited period after such
their manumission: And whereas it is necessary that the laws now in
force in the said several colonies should forthwith be adapted to the new
state and relations of society therein which will follow upon such gene-
ral manumission as aforesaid of the said slaves; and that, in order to
afford the necessary time for such adaptation of the said laws, a short
interval should elapse before such manumission should take effect: Be
it therefore enacted, &c. That from and after the first day of August one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-four all persons who in conformity
with the laws now in force in the said colonies respectively shall on
or before the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-four have been duly registered as slaves in any such colony, and
who on the said first day of August one thousand eight hundred and on the regis-
thirty-four shall be actually within any such colony, and who shall by try to be six
such registries appear to be on the said first day of August one thousand years old or
eight hundred and thirty-four of the full age of six years or upwards, upwards shall
shall by force and virtue of this act, and without the previous execution from that day
of any indenture of apprenticeship, or other deed or instrument for that become ap-
purpose, become and be apprenticed labourers; provided that, for the prenticed la-
purposes aforesaid, every slave engaged in his ordinary occupation on
the seas shall be deemed and taken to be within the colony to which
such slave shall belong.

All persons

who on the
1st August
1834 shall have
been registered

as slaves, and
shall appear

bourers.

Who entitled

II. That during the continuance of the apprenticeship of any such to services of apprenticed labourer such person or persons shall be entitled to the ser- the slave as an vices of such apprenticed labourer as would for the time being have been apprenticed entitled to his or her services as a slave if this act had not been made. labourer. III. Provided also, That all slaves who may at any time previous to All slaves the passing of this act have been brought with the consent of their pos- the united brought into sessors, and all apprenticed labourers who may hereafter with the like consent be brought into any part of the united kingdom of Great Britain consent of posand Ireland, shall from and after the passing of this act be absolutely sessors, free. and entirely free to all intents and purposes whatsoever. IV. And whereas it is expedient that all such apprenticed labourers should, for the purposes herein-after mentioned, be divided divided into

(1) See the 5 & 6 W. 4, post.

kingdom with

Apprenticed labourers to be

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