39th GEO. III. No. 531. A. D. 1798. No. 531. An Act to prevent the Stealing or Destroying of Sheep or other Cattle. PREAMBLE. 14. GEO. II. C. 6. Аст. Stealing Sheep or Cat tle enumerated; or kil WHEREAS it hath been found necessary, that the Crimes of stealing or destroying Sheep, or other Cattle, in this Island should British Stat. be punished in the same manner as is directed, in and by the Statute made and passed at Westminster, in the fourteenth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to render the Laws more effectual for the Preventing the Stealing and Destroying of Sheep, and other Cattle; We, therefore, Your Majesty's loyal and obedient Subjects, the Commander-in-Chief of Your Majesty's Leeward Caribbee Islands in America, and the Council and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island Antigua, do humbly pray Your Most Excellent Majesty, that it may be enacted and ordained; and be it, and it is hereby enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Person or Persons shall, at any time from and after the Passing and Publication of this Act, feloniously drive away, or, in any manner, feloniously ling, with In- steal one or more Sheep, or any Bull, Cow, Ox, Steer, Bullock, tent to steal- Heifer, Calf, or Lamb of any other Person or Persons whomsoever; assisting in or shall, wilfully, kill one or more Sheep, or any Bull, Cow, Ox, such Offence, Steer, Bullock, Heifer, Calf, or Lamb of any other Person or Perand punisha- sons whomsoever, with a felonious Intent to steal the whole Carcase or Carcases, or any Part or Parts of the said Carcase, or Carcases, of one or more Sheep, or of any Bull, Cow, Ox, Steer, Bullock, Heifer, Calf, or Lamb, that shall be so killed; or shall assist or aid any Person or Persons, to commit any such Offence or Offences ; that, then, the Person or Persons guilty of any such Offence or Offences, being thereof convicted in due form of Law, shall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death, as in Cases of Felony without Benefit of Clergy. Carcase; or -Felony; ble with Death, as Felony without Clergy. Dated at Saint Christopher's, the eighth Day of December, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and of His Majesty's Reign the thirty-ninth. JAMES ATHILL, Speaker. Passed the Assembly, this thirtieth Day of August, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. JOHN HILL, Clerk of the Assembly. Passed 39th GEO. III. Nis. 531, 532. A. D. 1798. Passed the Council, the first Day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. By Command, WILLIAM MATHEWS, Deputy Secretary. ROBERT L. S.) THOMSON. ANTIGUA. Published this thirteenth Day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight. ROBERT CLOGSTOUN, Dep. Pro. Marshal. CONTINUED AND AMEND ED by Act of 26th June, An Act for ascertaining the Freights of Goods and Mer- No. 532. chandizes, and of Sugar, Rum, and other Produce of this Island, which shall be carried and transported, from one Part of the said Island to another Part of the 565.) said Island, in any Sloops, Shallops, Boats or Vessels, commonly called Sugar Droughers. 1802, (No. WHEREAS the free and easy Conveyance and Carriage of PREAMBLE. Goods and Merchandizes, and of Sugar, Rum, and other Produce People No. 265. See TABLE and PROVISIONAL ALTERATION, in No. 565, S. 2. No. 532. 39th GEO. III. in the following Table, St. John's, and to and from and be-11.37..64..63.22.622.67.637.622.6 tween Johnson's Point and St. John's 39th GEO. III. No. 532. A. D. 1799. II. And be it enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That, on account of the Risk of Vessels being much diminished in Times of Peace, and the Prices of Materials and Provisions being also reduced, that in the Space of one Month from and after the Conclusion of the present War, the following Table of Rates of Freight, shall be substituted in Lieu of the one specified in the foregoing Clause of this Act, that is to say: [By No. 565, S. 2. THIS TABLE, AS WELL AS THE PRECEDING, IS SUPERSEDED BY A TABLE CONSTRUCTED FOR THE TIME OF PEACE, WHICH, WITH AN AUGMENTATION OF FIFTY PER CENT, ON THE RATES, IS TO SERVE IN TIME OF WAR.] Owners of BY WATER No. 532. 39th GEO. III. upon IV. And be it also enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That all Owners of Droughers, shall, in every Instance, be the same footing with the CARRIERS OF GOODS BY WATER IN IN ENGLAND. ENGLAND; and that the same Responsibility which attaches to one, shall attach to the other, in every Instance whatever: any Agreement or Declaration to the contrary, notwithstanding. By No. 565, S. 1. 4. in force, as altered, for V. And be it also enacted and ordained by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act shall continue and be in force for the Space of one Year from three Years from the Publication thereof; and, from thence, to the 1802, and till next Meeting of the Council and Assembly. 26th June, the Meeting of the Houses. Dated at Saint Christopher's, this twenty-first Day of February, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and of His Majesty's Reign the thirty-ninth. JAMES ATHILL, Speaker. Passed |