Page Page 1 & 2 W. 4, c. 44, s. 3 . 166 3&4 W.4,c. 53, s. 60, 61, 67 218 8, 9.601 s. 113,116-118 221 Page 5 & 6 W. 4, c. 67, s. 11. 349 a | 6 & 7 W, 4, c. 75 s. 60. Page 349 c c. 81 32, 251 32, 251 b 349 a c. 75, s. 63 349 d c. 76, s. 6 349 a 245 d c. 79, s. 61 31 130, 131, 160 30 c. 29, s. 1 c. 54, s. 19, 25 c. 55, s. 25 c. 75, s. 37, 53, 54. 393 59 c. 116, s. 29-31 32-35. 97-100 403 173 BOOK I. OF CRIMES. PART I. OFFENCES AGAINST INDIVIDUALS. CHAPTER I. OFFENCES AGAINST THE PROPERTY OF INDIVIDUALS. SECT. I. Simple Larceny. only, and between grand and petty larceny abolished; all larceny 9 Go. 4, c. 55, (a) s.1 ENACTS, that this present act, and Act to extend the several matters therein contained, shall extend to Ireland, and to Ireland not to England, Wales, or Scotland, except in the two cases there- shall comin-after specially provided for; and that this act shall commence mence on 1st and take effect in Ireland, on the first day of September, 1828. Sept. 1828. 2. That the distinction between grand larceny and petty Distinction larceny shall be abolished, and every larceny (whatever be the value of the property stolen) shall be deemed to be of the same nature, and shall be subject to the same incidents in all respects, as grand larceny was before the commencement of this act; and every court whose power, as to the trial of larceny, was, before the commencement of this act, limited to petty larceny, shall have power to try every case of larceny, the punishment of which cannot exceed the punishment herein-after mentioned for simple larceny, and also to try all accessaries to such larceny. 3. That every person convicted of simple larceny, or of Punishments any felony hereby made punishable like simple larceny, larceny, or shall (except in the cases herein-after otherwise provided for) felony, pu (a) Entitled, "An Act for consolidating and amending the laws in Ireland relative to larceny, and other offences connected therewith." shall be con sidered as grand lar ceny. for simple B 9 G. 4, c. 55. be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, and if a male, to be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, (if the court shall so think fit,) in addition to such imprisonment. nishable as such. For all of this act hard labour or solitary con finement may be added to imprison 4. That in all cases, whenever any person shall be confences under victed of any felony, crime, misdemeanor, or indictable offence punishable under this act, for which imprisonment may be awarded, with or without any other punishment, it shall be lawful for the court to sentence the offender to be imprisoned, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, in the common gaol or house of correction; and it shall also be lawful for such court to direct that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for the whole or any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with hard labour, as to the court in its discretion shall seem meet. ment. Stealing pub securities for money or warrants for goods, &c. felony, punishable, according to the circumstances, as stealing goods. 5. That if any person shall steal any tally, order, Exlic or private chequer acquittance, or other security whatsoever, entitling or evidencing the title of any person or body corporate to any share or interest in any public stock or fund, whether of the United Kingdom, or of Great Britain, or of England, or of Scotland, or of Ireland, or of any foreign state, or in any fund of any body corporate lawfully acting as a company or society, or to any deposit in any savings' bank, or shall steal any debenture, deed, bond, bill, note, warrant, order, or other security whatsoever, for money or for payment of money, whether of the United Kingdom, or of Great Britain, or of England, or of Scotland, or of Ireland, or of any foreign state, or shall steal any warrant or order for the delivery or transfer of any goods or valuable thing, every such offender shall be deemed guilty of felony, of the same nature, and in the same degree, and punishable in the same manner, as if he had stolen any chattel of like value with the share, interest, or deposit to which the security so stolen may relate, or of like value with the money due on the security so stolen, or secured thereby and remaining unsatisfied, or with the value of the goods or other valuable thing mentioned in the Rule of inter- warrant or order; and each of the several documents hereinpretation. before enumerated shall throughout this act be deemed for every purpose to be included under and denoted by the words "valuable security." transporta tion, &c. Stealing cer16. That if any person shall steal to the value of five tain goods in process of shillings any linen, hempen, or cotton yarn, or any goods or manufacture, article of silk, woollen, linen, or cotton, or of any one or more of those materials mixed with each other, or mixed with any other materia!, whilst laid, placed, or exposed, during any stage, process, or progress of manufacture, in any building, field, or other place, every such offender being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years, and, if a |