STATUTES.
CHAP. 1. Malt.
CHAP. 2. Highways.
CHAP. 19. Annuities.--King.
CHAP. 20. Gold and silver.
CHAP. 22. Parliament.
CHAP. 24. Justices.--Corporations.
CHAP. 25. Brandy.
CHAP. 27. An act for the more effectual preventing
any cloth or woollen goods remaining
upon the rack or tenters, or any woollen yarn or
wool left out to dry, from being stolen or taken
away in the night time.
CHAP. 28. Money.
CHAP. 32. Gun-powder.
CHAP. 33. Plantations.
CHAP. 34. An act to explain an act made in
the 14th year of the reign of his present majesty,
entitled, " An act to render the laws more effectual
for preventing the stealing and destroying of
sheep and other cattle. |
NOTES.
CHAP. 27. It is evident that this statute related
to offences committed in England. The persons
guilty, were for the third offence to be transported.
CHAP. 33. Related to the sugar colonies.
CHAP. 34. Neither this statute, nor the one
referred to, ever extended to the province. This
offence was thereby ousted of the benefit of
clergy; but all the prosecutions therefor in the
province were under acts of assembly which
made it punishable by four-fold and whipping.
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