GEO. III, FOR TRY ING ENG- moving prifoners as aforefaid in England, Scotland, and 44, C. 92, Ireland, refpectively, fhall be repaid to the perfon defraying the fame, by the treasurer of the County in England or Ireland respectively, or by the Sheriff, or Stewart Depute or Substitute of the County or Stewartry in Scotland in which the crime was committed; the amount of fuch expence being previously ascertained by an account thereof, verified upon oath, before two of the Justices of how allow- the Peace of fuch County or Stewartry, and allowed and figned by them, and fuch Treasurer, Sheriff, or Stewart Depute or Substitute, fhall be allowed fuch payments on their respective accounts. Expences, ed. 6, AND be it further enacted, That the Treasurers of the feveral Counties in Ireland who have paid the amount of any fuch Expences fo afcertained as aforefaid, shall lay the said account, together with the allowance of the fame, fo figned as aforefaid before the Grand Juries of their refpective Counties, at the affizes holden for fuch Counties next after fuch expences fhall be paid, or at any subsequent affizes; and it shall be lawful for fuch Grand Juries, and they are hereby respectively required to prefent a fum, equal to the amount of fuch expences, to be raised from the County at large for the purpose of reimburfing such Treasurers. 7, AND whereas it frequently happens, that perfons having stolen, or otherwife feloniously taken away, Money, Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, in one of the parts of the United Kingdom, carry the fame into another part of the faid United Kingdom, and there have the faid Money, Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, in their poffeffion or cuftody, and doubts may be entertained whether they could be indicted and tried in that part of the United Kingdom where fuch Trials to be offenders have the faid Money, Cattle, Goods, and other in the place Effects, in their poffeffion or cuftody, as the original of fence was not committed in fuch part of the said United Kingdom; be it therefore further enacted and declared, That from and after the 1st August 1804, if any perfon or perfons, having ftolen, or otherwife felonioufly taken Money, Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, in any one of the parts of the faid United Kingdom, fhall afterwards have the fame Money, Goods, Chattels, or other Effects, or any of detection FOR TRY ING ENG part thereof, in his, her, or their, poffeffion or cuftody, in CEO. 11, any other part of the United Kingdom, it sball and may be 44, C. 92, lawful to indict, try, and punish, such person or perfons for theft, or larceny, in that part of the United Kingdom LISH AND where he, she, or they, fhall fo have fuch Money, Cattle, IRISH OF Goods, or other Effects, in his, her, or their, poffeffion or cuftody, as if the faid Money, Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, had been ftolen in that part of the United King dom. FENDERS. or where 8, AND be it further enacted, That if any perfon or perfons, in any one of the parts of the United Kingdom, hall hereafter receive, or have any Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, ftolen, or otherwise feloniously taken, in any other part of the United Kingdom, knowing the fame to have been stolen, or otherwife feloniously taken, every fuch per- the ftolen fon or perfons fhall be liable to be indicted, tried, and pu- goods are nished, for fuch offence in that part of the United King- felonioufly dom where he, fhe, or they, fhall fo receive or have the faid Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, in the fame manner to all intents and purpofes, as if the faid Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, had been originally ftolen, or otherwise feloniously taken, in that part of the United Kingdom in which fuch perfon fhall fo receive or have fuch Cattle, Goods, or other Effects, refpectively. received. No. LV. GEO. II, c. 5, 1741. An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and diforderly Perfons, and to Houfes of Correction. I, WHEREAS the Number of Rogues, Vagabonds, Beggars, and other idle and diforderly Perfons daily increases, to the great Scandal, Lofs, and Annoyance of the Kingdom; for Remedy thereof, be it enacted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Con- Particular fent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, offences, in this prefent Parliament affembled, and by the Authori- punith ty of the fame, That all Perfons who threaten to run away ments and their GEO. II, VAGRANT ACT. and leave their Wives or Children to the Parish; and all 17TH, C. 5, Perfons who fhall unlawfully return to fuch Parish or Place from whence they have been legally removed by Order of Two Juftices of the Peace, withont bringing a Certificate from the Parish or Place whereunto they belong; and also all Persons who, not having wherewith to maintain themselves, live idle without Employment, and refuse to work for the usual and common Wages given to other Labourers in the like Work, in the Parishes or Places where they then are; and also all Perfons going about from Door to Door, or placing themselves in Streets, Highways, or Paffages, to beg or gather Alms in the Parishes or Places where they dwell, fhall be deemed idle and diforderly Perfons; and it fhall and may be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to commit fuch Offenders (being thereof convicted before him, by his own View, or by their own Confeffion, or by the Oath of one or more credible Witness or Witneffes) to the Houfe of Correction, there to be kept to hard Labour for any Time not exceeding One Month: And it fhall and may be lawful for any Perfon to apprehend, and carry before a Juftice of the Peace, any fuch Perfons going about from Door to Door, or placing themselves in Streets, Highways, or Paffages, to beg or gather Alms in the Parishes or Places where they dwell; Offences of and if they shall refift, or escape from the Perfon apprea higher hending them, they shall be subject to the same Punishment as Rogues and Vagabonds are made liable to by this Act: And it shall and may be lawful for the said Justice, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to order any Overseer of the Poor of the Parish or Place where fuch Offender shall be apprehended, to pay the Sum of Five Shillings to lings of re- any Perfon or Perfons in any fuch Parish or Place fo apapprehend. prehending them, for every Offender 'fo apprehended; ing offend- which Sum shall be allowed to fuch Overfeer in his Ac Bature. Five fhil ward for ers. count, he producing the Juftices Order, and a Receipt under the Hand of the Perfon or Perfons to whom fuch Sum was paid: But if such Overseer shall neglect or refuse to pay the faid Sum, the faid Justice, on Oath thereof made, Penalty for may, by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, order the same not paying to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Goods of fuch the reward. Overfeer; and the Overplus (if any) after the Charges of fuch Diftrefs fatisfied, fhall be returned to fuch Overfeer, GEO. II, who in fuch Cafe shall not be allowed the Sum fo levied in 17TH, C. 5, his Account. VAGRANT ACT. their pu 2, AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Perfons going about as Patent-gatherers, or Other ofGatherers of Alms, under Pretences of Lofs by Fire, or fences, and other Cafualty; or going about as Collectors for Prifons, nifhments. Jails, or Hofpitals; all Fencers and Bearwards; all common Players of Interludes; and all Perfons who shall for Hire, Gain, or Reward, act, reprefent, or perform, or cause to be acted, reprefented, or performed, any Interlude, Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Farce, or other Entertainment of the Stage, or any Part or Parts therein, not being authorised by Law; all Minttrels, Jugglers; all Perfons pretending to be Gypfies, or wandering in the Habit or Form of Egyptians, or pretending to have Skill in Phyfiognomy, Palmeftry, or like crafty Science, or pretending to tell Fortunes, or ufing any fubtil Craft to deceive and impofe on any of His Majesty's Subjects, or playing or betting at any unlawful Games or Plays; and all Perfons who run away and leave their Wives or Children, whereby they become chargeable to any Parish or Place; and all Petty Chapmen and Pedlars wandering abroad, not being duly licenced, or otherwife authorized by Law; and all Perfons wandering abroad, and lodging in Alehouses, Barns, Out-houses, or in the open Air, not giving a good Account of themselves; and all Perfons wandering abroad and begging, pretending to be Soldiers, Mariners, Seafaring Men, or pretending to go to Work in Harvest; and all other Perfons wandering abroad and begging, shall be deemed Rogues and Vagabonds within the true Intent and Meaning of this A&. 3, PROVIDED always, That this Act, or any thing here- Provife. in contained, fhall not extend, or be conftrued to extend, to Soldiers wanting Subfiftence, having lawful Certificates from their Officers or the Secretary at War, or to Marin or Seafaring Men licenfed by fome Teftimonial or Writing under the Hand and Seal of fome Justice of the Peace, fetting down the Time and Place of their Landing or Discharge, and the Place to which fuch Soldiers or Mariners are to pass, and the Names of the chief Towns or GEO. II, VAGRANT ACT. Places through which they are to pafs, and limiting the 17TH, C. 5, Time of fuch their Paffage while they continue in the direct Way to the Place to which they are to pass, and during the Time fo limited; or to any Perfon or Perfons going abroad to work at any lawful Work in the Time of Harvest, so as he, she, or they carry with him, her, or them a Certificate in Writing, figned by the Minister and one of the Churchwardens or Chapelwards, or one of the Overfeers of the Poor for the time being, of the Parish, Chapelry, or Place, where they fhall refpectively inhabit, declaring that he, she, or they, hath or have a Dwellinghoufe, or Place there, in which he, she, or they, inhabit. ble rogues. 4, AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all End-gatherers offending against an Act made Incorrigi in the Thirteenth Year of His late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture, and for preventing Difputes among the Perfous concerned therein; and for limiting a Time for profecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by an Act of the Twelfth Year of His Majesty's Reign, in cafe of Payment of the Workmen's Wages in any other Manner than in Money, being convicted of fuch Öffence; and all Perfons apprehended as Rogues and Vagabonds, and escaped from the Perfons apprehending them, or refufing to go before a Juftice or Justices of the Peace, or to be examined upon Oath before fuch Juftice or Juftices, or refufing to be conveyed by any such Pass as is herein after directed, or knowingly giving a falfe Account of themfelves on fuch Examination, after Warning given them of their Punishment; and all Rogues or Vagabonds who fhall break or escape out of any Houfe of Correction, before the Expiration of the Term for which they were committed or ordered to be confined by virtue of this Act; and all Persons who, after having been punished as Rogues and Vagabonds, and difcharged, fhall again commit any of the faid Offences, fhall be deemed incorrigible Rogues within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act. Any perfon 5, AND be it further enacted by the Authority aforemay appre- faid, That if any Perfons fhall be found offending against hend of- this Act, it shall and may be lawful for any Perfon whatfoever, to apprehend the Perfon fo offending, and to con tenders. 2 |