This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...protecting or preventing any goods whatsoever from being seized within the said Government on suspicion of their being stolen or unlawfully obtained, or of preventing the same from being produced or made to serve as evidence concerning any Felony or Misdemeanour committed or supposed to be committed within the said ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...protecting or preventing any goods whatsoever from being seized within the said Government on suspicion of their being stolen or unlawfully obtained, or of preventing the same from being produced or made to serve as evidence concerning any Felony or Misdemeanour committed or supposed to be committed within the said Government, shall frame or cause to be framed any Bill of Parcels containing any false statement in regard to the name or abode of the alleged vendor, the quantity or quality of any such goods, the place whence or the conveyance by which the same was furnished, the price agreed upon or ch irged for the same, or any other particular, knowing such statement to be false, or who shall fraudulently produce such Bill of Parcels, knowing the same to have been fraudulently framed, shall be deemed guilty of a Petty Misdemeanour. That if any goods shall be stolen or unlawfully obtained from any person, or being unlawfully obtained shall be unlawfully deposited, pawned, pledged, sold, or exchanged, and Information or Charge shall be made thereof to any Justice of the Peace, and that such goods are in the possession of, any other person who shall have advanced money upon the credit of such goods, it shall be lawful for such Justice to issue a Summons or Warrant for the appearance of such other person and for the production of the goods before any two or more Justices of the Peace, and for such Justices to order such goods to be delivered up to the Owner thereof, either without any payment or upon the payment of such sum and at such a time as such Justices shall think lit; and every person who being so ordered shall refuse or neglect to deliver up such goods, or who shall dispose of or make away with the same after notice that such goods were stolen or unlawf...
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