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Seizure. |
House of Correction.
' These persons finding such Horse therein, shall
go to the keeper of
' such Forest or Chase, his Deputy or Deputies, or to the Constable,
' Bailiff, Headborough, Borsholder or Tithingman of any town next adjoyning,
' and command them to go and bring such Horses to the Pound;
' there to be measured by such Officer or Officers, in the presence of
three
' honest persons to be named and appointed by the Officer, and if he be
' one found contrary, such persons challenging him, may take him to his
' own use. 32 H. 8. 13. |
Chap. 53. |
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' If any of the said Officers or persons to be appointed,
shall refuse to
' measure, or not measure justly, every of them shall forfeit for not doing,
' or refusing, 40 s. |
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§. 6.
Drift of
Commons. |
' All Forests, Chases, Commons, Moors, Marshes,
Heaths and Wast
' Grounds in England and Wales, shall be driven yearly by
the owners, or
' Officers of the same, and by the Constables, Headboroughs, Bailiffs,
' Borsholders and Tithingmen, within those limits they lie, upon pain
' that every of the said Officers not so doing at Michaelmass every
year, or
' Fifteen days after, shall forfeit 40 s. for every time, and the
Lords
' owners and possessors may by the Officers aforesaid, make such drift
at
' any other time in the year. |
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Killing
Fit. |
' If upon such drift there shall be found any Mare,
Filly, Fole or Gelding,
' that shall not then be thought able, or likely to grow to be profitable
' for labour, in the discretion of the drivers, or the greatest number
of
' them. The Drivers shall cause the same Beast to be killed. |
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§. 7.
Who may
determine
it, and how. |
' The Justices of Peace and Stewards of Leets may
inquire of all Defaults,
' Contempts, Omissions and Offences against that act, and the
' Presentments in the Leet shall be certified to the next Sessions, or
to the
' Custos Rotulorum within 40 days after it is made; and the Justices
may
' determine the same by examination, or otherwise; and if the Steward
' imbezel, conceal, or do not certifie, he shall forfeit 40 s. for
every Offence,
' a moiety to the King, the other moiety to the Prosecutor that sues
' for it in the Sessions, by Bill or Information. 32 H. 8
c. 13. |
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' This Act as to the Marshes, Fenne, Seggy ground
in Ely, Cambridgshire,
' Huntingdonshire, Northampton, Lincoln, Norfolk and Suffolk
be repealed;
' but none shall put into these Grounds any stoned Horse above
' Two years old not of the height of 13 handfuls, to be measured as aforesaid.
8 El. 8. |
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' Concerning Transporting of Horses, Geldings and
Mares, vide 1 E. 6. 5.
' 5 El. 19 and Tit. Transportation.
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§. 1.
Erecting. |
CHAP. LIII.
House of Correction.
THe Justices of Peace of any County, &c.
Assembled at any Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, or the major part of them, may make order
for the erecting of one or more Houses of Correction, and may make
orders
for the doing thereof, and for providing a stock and things necessary,
and for punishment of Offenders, as they shall think fit, from time to
time. |
39 El. 4. |
| Corporation. |
Justices of Peace in Corporate Towns shall put
that Act in Execution, and
Justices of the County shall not meddle there. |
39 El. 4. |
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