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ABSTRACT OF PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES.

4 WILL. IV. (continued.)

CAP. 13.—An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for the Prevention of Smuggling, as authorizes Magistrates to sentence Persons convicted of certain offences to serve his Majesty in his Naval Service, and to alter and amend the said Act. [22d May, 1834.]

S. 1. Repeals so much of the 3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 53, as authorizes and requires justices of the peace to order persons convicted of certain offences therein mentioned to be sent into the naval service for five years; and also so much of the said act as imposes certain pecuniary penalties for offences hereinafter next mentioned.

S. 2. Persons found to have been on board vessels liable to forfeiture under any act relating to the customs for having on board goods subjecting such vessels to forfeiture; and all persons assembled to the number of three or more for the purpose of running spirits, tobacco, tea, or silk (such tea or silk being of the value of £20 or more) or procuring persons to assemble for the purpose of running any prohibited goods; or obstructing officers or others employed for the prevention of smuggling; shall, on being convicted before any two justices, be sent to the House of Correction, to hard labour, for not less than six months for the first offence, nine for the second, and twelve for the third or any subsequent offence.

S. 3. Justices having limited jurisdiction, where there is no House of Correction, may commit to some other House of Correction near to the place of conviction.

S. 4. Where persons have been already convicted for any offence not being one of those before mentioned, and for which a penalty has been inflicted under any Customs' Act, the justices may, in default of payment, order imprisonment for the first offence for not less than six nor more than nine months, or, if there has been a former conviction, for not more than twelve months.

S. 5. Where the offender is a female, or from age or sickness incapable of hard labour, the justices may order imprisonment only; provided that the cause of mitigation be stated in the warrant of commitment.

S. 6. Where a person is committed for any offence against the Customs' Acts, to imprisonment and hard labour, and it appears during the imprisonment, that the offender has been before convicted of a similar offence, the justices may extend the term of imprisonment, and amend the warrant of commitment accordingly.

S. 7. Amended warrant need not refer to former conviction.

S. 8. Power given to justices by the said act to mitigate penalties, shall be limited to convictions for a first offence.