be commenced in three months, and party to have fourteen days notice. s. 8. By 52 Geo. III. c. 50, current gold coin shall not be received and paid for more than the true value; offenders to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and to suffer, for the first offence, six months imprisonment, and find sureties for good behaviour for one year, from the expiration of the six months; for a second offence, twelve months imprisonment, and find sureties for twelve months more; and for every subsequent offence, two years imprisonment. s. 1. Indictment shall not be traversed, s. 3. and on prosecution it is not necessary to prove the money good and lawful. s. 4. Bank notes of England or Ireland shall not be received, or paid for less than their value; offenders to forfeit double the sum specified in such notes, and be imprisoned not exceeding two months. s. 5. Distress for rent stayed on tender of the rent in bank notes, on pain of the party refusing paying all subsequent costs, provided the full amount of the rent due and costs is tendered. s. 6. Bank notes good payment for money directed to be paid under any legal proceedings. s. 7. and to be taken by officers levying under any legal pro cess. s. 8. This act was only to continue until three months after the next sessions, but it is further continued. by 53 Geo. III. c. 5, and by 54 Geo. III. c. 52, it is revised and continued during the continuance of any act imposing any restriction on the Bank with respect to payment in cash. By 52 Geo. III. c. 137, for further preventing the counterfeiting of bank tokens, it is enacted, that any person counterfeiting the same, shall be guilty of felony, and be transported for fourteen years. c. 1. and for uttering or selling the same, for the first offence, one year's imprisonment, and to find sureties for two years after the end of the imprisonment; and for second offence to be transported for fourteen years. s. 2. And persons engraving or uttering any paper resembling Bank of England notes, to be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be transported for fourteen years. s. 6. By 52 Geo, III. c. 157, no gold, silver, or mixed metal tokens, except those issued by the Bank, to be issued or circulated, under a penalty of not more than £20. nor less than £5. at the discretion of the justice or justices who shall hear and determine the offence. s. 1. to take effect from 25th March 1813. Justices empowered to hear and determine offences in a summary way, and to levy penalties by distress. Witness not attending summons to forfeit £20. to be levied in like manner, one moiety of penalties to the informer, and the other to the poor of the parish: if no distress, the offender may be committed to gaol or house of correction for three months, unless penalty be sooner paid, or un til offender gives notice of appeal, and enters into recognizance to prosecute it. The decision of the sessions final. For the penalties and punishment for clipping, rasping, filing, colouring, impairing, &c. the current coin, not immediately cognizable by justices, see stat 5 Eliz. c. 11. 18 Eliz. c. 1. 7 and 8 Wm. c. 19. 8 and 9 Wm. c. 26. 1 and 7 Ann, c.9 and 25. 15 Geo. II. c. 28. Complaint in order to obtain a Search Warrant against Coiners, to wit. Be it remembered, That this day of in the year of our Lord 1817, A. B. of in the county of, yeoman, a credible witness in that behalf, cometh before S. P. Esq. one of His Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, and upon oath saith that he hath just and reasonable cause to suspect, and doth suspect that Č. D. ofis concerned in the counterfeiting of [as the fact is, adopting the words of the act which authorizes the search], in a certain dwelling house, situate at, for be the said A. B. upon his oath aforesaid, doth depose and say, that [set forth the cause of suspicion that the same may appear reasonable]. Sworn before me, Warrant on the above Complaint. To the Constable of to wit. Whereas A. B. of A. B. in the said county of , yeoman, a credible witness in that behalf, hath this day made complaint upon oath before me S. P. Esq. one of His Majesty's justices of the peace in and for the said county, that he hath just and reasonable cause to suspect, and doth suspect, that C. D. of is concerned in the counterfeiting of [set forth the offence from the words of the Act], in a certain dwelling house situate at; These are therefore, in His Majesty's name, to authorize and require you, with necessary and proper assistants, to enter in the day time into the said dwelling house of the said A. B. at aforesaid, and there diligently to search for such false or counterfeit and all tools or implements and materials for making or coining any such false or counterfeit, and if the same or any of them shall be found on such search, you are to bring the same and every of them so found, before me or some other of the justices of our said Lord the King, assigned to keep the peace for the county aforesaid, in order that the same may be secured and produced in evidence against the said A. B. and such other person or persons who shall or may be prosecuted for the offence aforesaid, according to the statute in that behalf made and provided. Given under my hand and seal, Conviction, under 52 Geo. III. c. 157. Be it remembered, That on the S. P. day of in the year of our Lord 1817, A. B. having appeared before me [or us] one [or more] of His Majesty's justices of the peace [as the case may be] for the county, riding, city, or place [as the case may be], and due proof having been made upon oath by one or more credible witness or witnesses, or by confession of the party [as the case may be], is convicted of [specifying the offence. Given under my hand and scal [or our hands and seals, the day and year aforesaid, Distress Warrant for a Penalty. To the Constable, Headborough, or Tything-man of to wit. Whereas A. B. of in the county of is this day convicted before me [or us], one (or more] of His Majesty's justices of the peace [as the case may be] for the county of, or for the riding of the county of of, or for the town, liberty, or district of [as the case may be], upon the oath of C. D. or E, F. and G. H. a credible witness or witnesses, or by confession of the party [as the case may be], for that the said A. B. hath here set forth the offence], contrary to the statute in that case made and provided, by reason whereof the said A. B. hath forfeited the sum of --, to be distributed as herein is mentioned, which he hath refused to pay: These are therefore, in His Majesty's name, to command you to levy the said sum of by distress of the goods and chattels of him the said A. B. and if within the space of days next after such distress by you taken, the said sum, together with the reasonable charges of taking the same, shall not be paid, then that you do sell the said goods and chattels so by you distrained, and out of the money arising by such sale, that you do pay one half of the said sum of to C. D. of who informed me or us, as the case shall be of the said offence, and the other half of the said sum of seer of the poor of the parish, township, or place where the offence was committed, to be employed for the benefit of such poor; returning the overplus (if any) upon demand to the said A. B. the reasonable charges of taking, keeping, and selling the said distress being first deducted. And if sufficient distress cannot be found of the goods and chattels of the said A. B. whereon to levy the said sum of, that then you certify the same to me or us, as the case may be] together with this warrant. to the over Given under my hand and seal [or our hands and seals] the day of in the year of our Lord 1817. COMBINATION. By 39 and 40 Geo. III. c. 106, contracts amongst workmen for obtaining an advance of wages, altering the usual time of working, or decreasing the quantity of work, are null and void, and every workman who shall so contract shall be committed to the common gaol for not more than three months, or house of correction for not more than two months, on conviction before two justices; and |