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9 G. 4, c. 55.

shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall suffer death as a felon : and whereas by an act passed in the ninth year of the same reign, intituled " An Act for consoli"dating and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to Larceny, "and other Offences connected therewith," it is among other things enacted, that if any person shall steal in any dwelling house any chattel, money, or valuable security, to the value in the whole of five pounds or more, every such offender, being convicted thereof, shall suffer death as a felon; and it is also by the said last-mentioned act enacted, that if any person shall steal any horse, mare, gelding, colt, or filly, or any bull, cow, ox, steer, bullock, heifer, or calf, or any ram, ewe, sheep, or lamb, or shall wilfully kill any of such cattle with intent to steal the carcase or skin or any part of the cattle so killed, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and 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 several offences hereinbefore specified : be it therefore enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much of each of the said acts as inflicts the punishment of death upon persons convicted of any of the felonies hereinbefore specified shall be and the same is hereby repealed; and that from and after the transported for passing of this act every person convicted of any of the felonies hereinbefore specified, or of counselling, aiding, or abetting the commission thereof, shall be transported beyond the seas for life.

Persons con victed of any of the offences herein speci

fied shall be

life.

Limiting the

time for grant ing pardons, &c. by governors, &c. of colo

nies.

II. And be it further enacted, that neither the governor or lieutenant governor of any island, colony, or settlement, or any other person, shall give any pardon or ticket of leave to any person sentenced to transportation, or who shall receive a pardon on condition of transportation, or any order or permission to suspend or remit the labour of any such person, except in cases of illness, until such person, if transported for seven years, shall have served four; if transported for fourteen years, shall have served six; or if transported for life, shall have served eight years of labour; and that no such person shall be capable of acquiring or holding any property, or of bringing any action for the recovery of any property, until after such person shall have duly obtained a pardon from the governor or lieutenant governor of the colony or settlement in which he or she shall have been confined: Provided that nothing herein contained shall in any manner affect his Majesty's royal prerogative of mercy.

2 & 3 WM. IV. c. 72.

An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act of the Seventh and Eighth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, relative to Remedies against the Hundred.

[1st August, 1832.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the provisions of an act made and passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign

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of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled " An 7 & 8 G. 4, "Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in England c. 31. "relative to remedies against the Hundred," to threshing machines: Be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any Remedy may be threshing machine, whether fixed or movable, or any part had against the thereof, shall be feloniously cut, broken, damaged or de- hundred for dastroyed by any persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, then, and in every such case, the inhabitants of the hundred, wapentake, ward or other district in the nature of a hundred, or by whatever name it shall be denominated, in which any such offence shall be committed, shall be liable to yield full compensation to the person or persons damnified by the offence, not only for the damage so done to any such machines as aforesaid, but also for any damage which may at the same time be done by any such offenders to any erection or fixture whatever in or about or belonging to any such machines.

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II. And be it further enacted, that the several clauses, Provisions of re remedies, and provisions contained in the said recited act cited act exshall extend and be construed to extend to such machines as tended to are herein-before mentioned, as fully and effectually to all in- threshing matents and purposes as if the same machines had been mentioned and particularized in the said recited act.

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to Scotland or

III. Provided always, and be it further enacted, that Not to extend nothing in this act contained shall extend to Scotland or Ireland.

Ireland.

9 G. 4, c. 55.

3 & 4 WM. IV. c. 44.

An Act to repeal so much of Two Acts of the Seventh and
Eighth Years and the Ninth Year of King George the Fourth
es inflicts the Punishment of Death upon Persons breaking,
entering, and stealing in a Dwelling House; also for giving
Power to the Judges to add to the Punishment of Transporta-
tion for Life in certain Cases of Forgery, and in certain other
Cases.
[14th August, 1833.]

WHEREAS by two several acts respectively passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of King George the Fourth and in the ninth year of the same reign, the first of the said 7 & 8 G. 4, c. 2. acts intituled "An Act for consolidating and amending the "Laws in England relative to Larceny and other Offences "connected therewith;" and the second of the said acts intituled "An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws in Ireland relative to Larceny and other Offences connected "therewith;" it is amongst other things by each of the said acts enacted, that if any person shall break and enter any dwelling house, and steal therein any chattel, money, or valuable security to any value whatever, every such offender being convicted thereof shall suffer death as a felon and whereas by each of the said acts it is further enacted, that in the case of every felony punishable under the said respective acts every principal in the second degree and every accessary before the fact shall be punishable with death, or otherwise, in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by the said respective acts punishable: and whereas it is expedient that a lesser punishment than that of death should be So much of re- provided for the several offences herein-before specified; be cited acts as in- it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent Majesty, by flicts the punish- and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and for the felonies temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assemherein described bled, and by the authority of the same, that so much of each repealed.

ment of death

After the 1st

Jan. 1834, per

sons convicted

of the said two recited acts as inflicts the punishment of death on persons convicted of any of the felonies hereinbefore specified shall, from and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, be and the same is hereby repealed.

II. And be it further enacted, that from and after the first of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of such felonies every person who shall be convicted of any of the felonies herein-before specified, as principals or accessaries before be transported, the fact, shall be liable to be transported beyond the seas for

to be liable to

without hard labour, previous

life, or for any term not less than seven years, as the court and to imprisonbefore whom any such person shall be convicted shall ad- ment, with or judge, and, previously to transportation, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction, or to be confined in the peni- tion. tentiary for any term not exceeding four years, or shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding four years nor less than one year.

to transporta

III. And be it further enacted, that all persons punishable Persons punishby transportation for life under an act passed in the second able with transand third years of the reign of his present Majesty, relating portation for life to the stealing in dwelling houses and other offences, intituled under 2 & 3 W. 4, c. 62, and "An Act for abolishing the Punishment of Death in certain 123, liable to be "Cases, and substituting a lesser Punishment in lieu thereof," previously imand all persons punishable by transportation for life under an prisoned for act passed in the same years, intituled "An Act for abolish- four years. ing the Punishment of Death in certain cases of Forgery," shall be liable, previously to their being transported, in case the Court before whom such persons shall be convicted shall think fit, to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction, or to be confined in the penitentiary, for any term not exceeding four years nor less than one year.

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