5. Punishment for Felonies herein before specified. 6. Attempting to blow up Buildings, &c. 7. Attempts to set fire to Buildings. 8. Male Offenders under 18 years of age may be whipped. explosive substance, or any other dangerous or noxious thing, or cast or throw upon or otherwise apply to any person any corrosive fluid or other destructive matter, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to burn, maim, disfigure or disable any person, or to do some grievous bodily harm to any person, shall, although no bodily injury be effected, be guilty of Felony. 5 And be it Enacted, That whoever shall be convicted of any felony hereinbefore mentioned, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life, or for any term not less than Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any 10 term not exceeding Three Years. · And be it Enacted, That whoever shall unlawfully and maliciously place or throw in, into or near any building, any gunpowder, or other explosive substance, with intent to do any bodily damage to any person, or to destroy or damage any building, or any goods or chattels, 15 shall, whether or not any explosion take place, and whether or not any injury is effected to any person, or any damage to any building, goods or chattels, be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned 20 for any term not exceeding Two Years. And be it Enacted, That whoever shall unlawfully and maliciously by any overt act attempt to set fire to any building, vessel or mine, or to any stack or steer, or to any vegetable produce of such kind, and with such intent that if the offence were complete the offender would 25 be guilty of Felony, and liable to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life, shall, although such building, vessel, mine, stack, steer or vegetable produce be not actually set on fire, be guilty of Felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be transported beyond the seas for any 30 term not exceeding Fifteen Years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding Two Years. And be it Enacted, That every male person under the age of Eighteen Years who shall be convicted of any offence under this Act, or who shall be convicted of feloniously setting fire to any building, 40 vessel or mine, or to any stack or steer, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court before which he shall be convicted, in addition to any other sentence which may be passed upon him, to be publicly or privately whipped, in such manner, and as often, not exceeding Thrice, as the Court shall direct. And a 5 9. of Accessaries. And be it Enacted, That in the case of every Felony punishable Punishment under this Act, every principal in the second degree and every accessary before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Act punishable; and every accessary after the fact to any Felony punishable under this Act shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding Two Years. And be it Enacted, That where any person shall be convicted of any offence punishable under this Act for which imprisonment may be 10 awarded, 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 also to direct that the offender shall be kept in solitary confinement for any portion or portions of such imprisonment, or of such imprisonment with hard labour not 15 exceeding One calendar Month at any one time, and not exceeding Three calendar Months in any one year, as to the Court in its discretion shall seem meet. And be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to the alteration or repeal of any of the powers, pro20 visions or regulations contained in an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, " An Act for effecting greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain," or in an Act passed in the fourth year of the reign of King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, " An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the Building, Repairing and Regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales." 25 12. And be it Enacted, That where any Felony punishable under this Offences comAct shall be committed within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of the Admiralty 30 England or of Ireland, the same shall be dealt with, inquired of, tried Jurisdiction." and determined in the same manner as any other Felony committed within that jurisdiction. 13. And be it Enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall extend Not to extend to Scotland. to Scotland. 14. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by Act may be any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. amended or A BILL To amend the Laws relating to Labour in [Note. The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 Whereas an Act was passed in the fourth year of the Preamble. reign of his late Majesty, intituled, "An Act to regulate the Labour of Children and Young Persons in the Mills and Factories of the United Kingdom;" and another Act was passed in the Session of Parliament held in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, intituled, " An Act to amend the Laws relating to Labour in Factories; " and by the said first-mentioned Act it was provided, that no person under the age of Eighteen Years should be employed in any such Mill or Factory such Mill or Factory as in the said Act is mentioned, 10 in any such description of work as thereinbefore specified, more than Twelve Hours in any one Day, nor more than Sixty-nine Hours in any one Week, except as thereinafter is provided; and by the said last-mentioned Act it was provided, that no Female above the age of Eighteen Years should be employed in any Factory as defined by the 15 said Act, save for the same time and in the same manner as young persons (by the said Act defined to be persons of the age of Thirteen Years, and under the age of Eighteen Years) might be employed in Factories: And whereas it is expedient to alter the said Acts for the purpose 20 of further restricting the hours of labour of Young Persons and Females in Factories: BE it Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and 6. Temporal, 1. Limiting the which Persons 2. Limiting the number of Hours for which Persons under eighteen years of age are to be employed. 3. Recited Acts and this Act to be con strued together as one Act. 4. Act may be amended during present Session. Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by 10 15 20 And be it Enacted, That as from the First day of August One thousand eight hundred and Forty-seven,no person under the age of Eighteen Years shall be employed in any such Mill or Factory, in such description of work as in the said first-mentioned Act is specified, for more than Ten Hours in any one Day, nor more than Fifty-nine Hours in any one Week, except as in the said Act is provided; and that as from the First day of August One thousand eight hundred and Forty-seven, the said two Acts shall, in all respects, be construed as if the provision in the said first-mentioned Act contained, as to persons under the age of Eighteen Years working in Mills and Factories, had been confined to Ten Hours instead of Twelve Hours in any one Day, and Fifty-nine 25 Hours in any one Week instead of Sixty-nine Hours, and that the restrictions respectively by this Act imposed as regards the working of persons under the age of Eighteen Years, shall extend to Females above the age of Eighteen Years, in all respects as by the secondly hereinbefore mentioned Act is provided. And be it Enacted, That the said two hereinbefore mentioned Acts, as amended by this Act, and this Act, shall be construed together as one Act. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this present Session of Parliament. 30 |