SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES.

NAVAL STORES. (Notes 327, 328.)

Statute.

s. 6.

1. Possession of Stores.] Any person brought before two justices 32 Vict. c. 12,
charged with having or conveying in any manner any of her
Majesty's stores [Note 328] reasonably suspected of being stolen
or unlawfully obtained, and not giving an account to their satis-
faction how he came by the same.

[MEM. By s. 6, "a constable of the Metropolitan Police Force
may, within any of her Majesty's dock, victualling, or steam
factory yards, and the area connected therewith, for which he
is sworn, stop, search, and detain any vessel, boat, or vehicle in
or on which there is reason to suspect that any of her Majesty's
stores stolen or unlawfully obtained may be found, or any
person reasonably suspected of having or conveying in any
manner any of her Majesty's stores stolen or unlawfully ob-
tained."]

2. Any person without permission in writing from the Admiralty, or from some person authorized by them (proof of which to lie on accused), gathering or searching for stores, creeping, sweeping, or dredging in the sea or any tidal water, within 100 yards from any vessel belonging to H.M. or in H.M.'s service, or from any mooring place or anchoring place appropriated to such vessels, or from any moorings belonging to H.M. or from any of H.M.'s wharves or docks, victualling or steam factory yards, or in or on any part of the spaces or distances from time to time marked out as ranges for artillery practice for the use of H.M.'s ships at Portsmouth, Devonport or elsewhere, whether covered with water or not.

3. If stores are found in the possession or keeping of a person being in
H.M.'s service or in the service of the Admiralty, or being a
dealer in marine stores or in old metals, or a pawnbroker (within
the meaning of any enactments for the time being in force re-
lating to such dealers or to pawnbrokers), and he is taken or
summoned before a justice, and the justice sees reasonable
grounds for believing the stores found to be or to have been
H.M.'s property, then if such person does not satisfy the justice
that he came lawfully by the stores found.

[MEM. "For the purposes of this section stores shall be
deemed to be in the possession or keeping of any person if he
knowingly has them in the actual possession or keeping*

Id. s. 7.

Id. s. S.

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327 "NAVAL STORES:" Definition of "Stores," and Description of Marks.] By 32 Vict. c. 12 ("The Naval Stores Act, 1869"), s. 3, the term "stores" includes all goods and chattels and any single store or article. By sect. 4, the marks described in the schedule to the act may be applied in or on stores therein described in order to denote her Majesty's property in stores so marked; and these marks or any of them the Admiralty, their contractors, officers and workmen, are to apply in or on any such stores. The schedule is :-hempen cordage and wire rope,-white, black, or coloured worsted threads laid up with the yarns and the wire respectively. Canvas, fearnought, hammocks and seamen's bags,—a blue line in a serpentine form. Buntin,- -a double tape in the warp. Candles,-blue or red cotton threads in each wick or wicks of red cotton, Timber, metal, and other stores not before enumerated,—the broad arrow. By sect. 13, the 45th section of the Greenwich Hospital Act, 1865, 28 & 29 Vict. c. 89, shall be read and have effect as if this act instead of the Naval Stores Act, 1864, were referred to in that section. The sect. 45 provides that the following mark may be applied in or on stores used for the purposes of Greenwich Hospital, viz.-an anchor surmounted

with a naval crown, with two flags over the crown, and the letter G. on one side and the letter H. on the other side, they are to be deemed naval stores within the Naval Stores Act, 1864, to which that act [now the 32 Vict. c. 12] shall apply.

328 Conviction of Dealer in Old Metals.] By 32 Vict. c. 12, s. 9, "A conviction under any provision of this act of a dealer in old metals shall, for the purposes of registration and its consequences under the Old Metal Dealers Act, 1861, be equivalent to a conviction under that act." [See Notes 116, 118, ante, p. 389-391.]

329 Procedure to be under incorporated Provisions of Larceny Act, 24 & 25 l'ict. c. 96— Appeal against Convictions.] By 32 Vict. c. 12, s. 10, the following sections of the Larceny Consolidation Act, 1861, 24 & 25 Vict. c. 96, are incorporated with it,-viz., sect. 99, punishment of abettors in summary convictions (Offence 28, ante, p. 542); sect. 100, restitution of stolen property; sect. 103, as to apprehension of offenders by persons in general without warrant, and issue of search warrant (Note 254, ante, p. 535); sect. 107, scale of imprisonment in default of payment of penalties; sect. 108, discharge of offenders; and sect. 109 (Note 249, ante, p. 534); sect. 110, appeal against

O.S. VOL. I.

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SYNOPSIS OF OFFENCES.

Statute.

NAVIGABLE RIVERS AND CANALS.

1. Person found on any canal or navigable river, or in or upon any lock, dock, warehouse, wharf, quay or bank thereof, or on board of any boat, &c. thereon, having in his possession or under his control any tube or instrument for carrying away any liquor or goods,

or

2. Attempting unlawfully to obtain any liquor or goods.

3. Piercing, &c. casks, &c. on board of boat, &c.-or in any warehouse, &c. belonging to any river, &c.-with intent feloniously to steal, or otherwise unlawfully obtain or injure contents,

or

4. Unlawfully drinking, or wilfully spilling, or allowing to run to waste, any liquors or any part thereof.

[See further tit. "Constables," ante, p. 354, for assaults.]

NAVY (MARINE FORCES). (Note 333.)

NEWSPAPERS AND PAMPHLETS. [As to Pamphlets and Periodicals, see tit. "Printers," post.]

NITRO-GLYCERINE. See "Explosive Substances," ante.

OLD METALS, DEALERS IN. See tit. "Dealers in Old Metals."
OVERSEERS.

1. Constables' Act.] Neglecting or refusing

2.

3.

4.

to sign list of persons agreed to in vestry qualified and liable
to serve as constables,

or

to make out, sign and publish true copies (s. 8),

or

knowingly leaving out the name of any person who ought to be
included therein,—or,

knowingly making a false return.

3 & 4 Vict.

c. 50, s. 7.

Id. s. S.

5 & 6 Vict.

c. 109, s. 9.

S. 45.

5. Jurors' Act.] Various offences under the act relating to jurors, as G Geo. 4, c. 50. to making out and returning the lists, &c. See Bray v. Somers, 31 L. J. (N. S.) M. C. 135; 6 Law T., N. S. 49; and 25 § 26 Vict. c. 107, s. 6. See also offence under 33 & 34 Vict. c. 77, s. 13, as to the omission of proper, and the insertion of improper, names in List of Jurors.

convictions (Note 253, ante, p. 534); sect. 111, no certiorari, &c.; sect. 112, convictions to be returned to the quarter sessions (Note 256, ante, p. 537); sect. 113, venue in preceedings against persons acting under the act; sect. 120, summary proceedings to be under 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43, (Note 249, ante, p. 534), the expression this act," where used in these sections, being taken to include the 32 Vict. c. 12. By sect. 12, "nothing in this act shall prevent any person from being indicted under this act or otherwise for any indictable offence made punishable on summary conviction by this act, or prevent any person from being liable under any other act or otherwise to any other or highet penalty or punishment than is provided for any offence by this act, so that no perso be punished twice for the same offence." By the Admiralty Powers Act, 1865, 25 & 29 Vict. c. 124, s. 5, the superintendents of her Majesty's dockyards shall be in all places justices of the peace in respect. . . . . of all matters relating to her Majesty's naval service, and the stores, provisions and accounts thereof.

330 Application of Penalties under 32 Vict. c. 12.] By 32 Vict. c. 12, s. 11, "notwithstanding anything in any act relating to municipal corporations or to the metropolitan police force or in any other act, any pecuniary penalty or other money recovered under this act shall be paid and applied under such regulations as the Admiralty, with the concurrence of the Treasury, may from time to time direct."

331 "NAVIGABLE RIVERS AND CANALS:" Apprehension of Offenders.] Idle and disorderly persons found loitering about towing-path, &c. between sunset and 8 a.m., and not giving a good account of themselves, may be apprehended without a warrant (3 & 4 Vict. c. 50, ss. 10, 11); and persons offering property suspected to be stolen may be detained and delivered to a constable (s. 12).

332 Appeal.] This appeal clause will be found in Note 83, ante, p. 360. See also 42 & 43 Vict. c. 49, ss. 31, 32, p. 253.

333 "NAVY MARINE FORCES."] The navy is no longer subject to the Annual Marine