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Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 491, 11 June 1866, Page 3

POLICE ORDINANCE, 1862-EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT ORDINANCE. j 11. Any person who shall commit any of the next folio '.v;;k; | offences shall on conviction pay to the person aggrieved, cpmpen-: - tion for or the value of the injury done to be assessed by tM.' adjudicating Justice to an amount not exceeding in any case Fifry Pounds and shall also be liable to the penalty and punishm,-.:' | hereinafter specified for the cases respectively:— : i 1. Any person destroying damaging polluting or. obstruct! v /; j any aqueduct dam sluice pipe pump .watercourse <>■•' fountain. 2. Or destroying or damaging any toll-bar toll-gate or otli.*:* public work used as a means for collecting any toil • r due. 3. Or damaging or destroying any- fenqe of whatev^: 1 description whether of wire iron wood or any ofh .•/ material or any wall stile or gate or any part thereor. 4. And any artificer workman journeyman or apprenticewilfully damaging spoiling^ _or destroying any jarooii .-; wares work or material committed to his care or ch.-ir.iiv. 5. And any person wilfully breaking any pane of glass i.i the window, of any building. 6. Or wilfully breaking or extinguishing or injuring :i ?.■;.■'• lamp. ..[....:■ 7. Or wilfully trespassing in any j)lace and neglecting " * refusing to leave such place after he shall have ]uv:T warned to do so by the owner or any person authorise! by or on behalf of the owner. 8. Or committing any injury or damage to any property whether private or public not hereinbefore provided i-> r the injury done being under the value of twenty pounds shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Twenty Pounds or to imprisonment for a period not excee Ym-x three months : Provided that nothing hereinbef"».u contained shall extend to any case where the per^m offending acted under a fair and reasonable supposition that he had a right to do the act complained of nor in any trespass (not being wilful and malicious) commit! -d in hunting or the pursuit of game. 111. Whenever any credible witness shall prove upon oath before a Justice of the Peace that there is reasonable cause to sivpect that any of the articles of property hereinafter rnentioi (1 has been taken or stolen and is to be found in any house or oils-v place it shall be lawful for such Justice to issue a warrant -to seir-h such house or place for such property and any person in whn-e. possession or on whose premises' any of the said articles of proper y shall be found by virtue of any such search warrant (or by n> •' member of the Police Force when executing any warrant or o.tn rwise acting in the discharge of his duty) and who shall not snt'< ■■: the Justice before whom he shall be brought that he came lavWn ' - by the same or that the same was on his premises without .\s knowledge or assent shall on conviction of "any of the next folio vn: g offences be liable to the punishment hereinafter specified : — 1. Any person in whose possession or on whose preii visor, any goods merchandise or other articles . belongmrv to any ship or vessel in distress or wrecked stranded "V cast on shore shall -be so found aud who shall not snt.i :y the Justices that he came lawfully by the same or thai the same was on his premises without his knowledge ny assent shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ' ! ,r> Hundred Pounds or to be imprisoned with or wit) \n hard labor for any term not exceeding twelve montl \ 2. Any person in whose possession or on whose prenv] -\ ; ; the carcase or the head skin hide fleece fat or any r \ „>;• part of any cattle shall be so found and who shall not account for the same in manner aforesaid shall be Yr -^ -le to a fine not exceeding Twenty Pounds or to hv imprisoned for a term not exceeding four months wiili r r without hard labor. 3. Any person in whose possession or on whose preri •?.«»:•? the whole or any part of any tree, sapling or shml? >r any underwood or any part of any live or dead it ■-:> or any post pale rail stile or gate or any part the r' (being of the value of one shilling "airtfre least) :;-i ;H be so found and who shall not account for the sanv in manner aforesaid shall pay to the party agrieve \ ■■ c value of the articles so found and shall also be li;.-.-*kj to a fine not exceeding Twenty Pounds^ or to !;*> imprisoned with or without hard labor for a tern: koc exceeding three months. ' 4 4. Any person who shall offer, or expose for sale any a ' -]s merchandise or articles which «shall have been v.'ii; -vfully taken or reasonably" suppbsed~t6™*nave 1> en unlawfully taken from any. ship or vessel in Ciki.- -ss or wrecked stranded or cast on shore as afoi 1 ..-: i:! (whether found by virtue of a search warrant or j-(.-t) and whd shall not account for .the" samein the m.-in: <t aforesaid shall pay such sum as the Justice shall lias a reasonable reward to the person who shall hc.ve seized the same and also be liable to a fine not cxc ; •• - ing Fifty Pounds or to be imprisoned' for- a term .;ioti exceeding six months.- And in every such case Miy" person to whom the same shall be offered for sn> oany officer of the Customs or member of the I\:iie<^ may lawfully seize the same and with all convou'ent. speed cause the same to be removed to some Jusii. c of the Peace and in every case it shall be lawful fcr the Justice by or before whom the case shall.- be hef,r.l to direct that such articles of property shall be deli\c.ed over to the rightful owner if known or^ if not -In.' mi that the same shall be sold and the proceeds thewof applied in like manner as any penalties under this Ordinance. ° v Provided that if any person shall not under the_£rovisions hvt aforesaid be liable to. conviction 'it "shall b'e'lawfuTTortEe Justice at his discretion- to compel the attendance before him of any person through whose hands any such articles or property or any pr.it thereof shall appear to have passed and if the person"from whom the same shall have been first received or Cany person who shall have had possession thereof shall npJLsatisfy such Justice that h" came lawfully by the same he shall be liable to the punishniei t hereinbefore specified in each j case/ T -■*■ _. _