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 A. D. 1722; Anno nono Georgii Regis. C. 22. 461 fh all be taken and fecured in order to be brought to juftice, before the Time fhall be expired, within Offender! apjwt any thing herein before contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. be tried ':.cccrd- VII. And be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the firft Day of June one thoufand i<>8 "> Llw - feven hundred and twenty-three, the Inhabitants of every Hundred, within that Part of the Kingdom of Great Britain called England, fhall make full Satisfaction and Amends to all and every the Perfon and Per- fons, their Executors and Adminiftrators, for the Damages they fhall have fuftained or fullered by the kil- ling or maiming of any Cattle, cutting down or deftroying any Trees, or fetting Fire to any Houfe, Barn Hundred charcr-
 * or Out-houfe, Hovel, Cock, Mow or Stack of Corn, Straw, Hay or Wood, which (half be committed able for Damage

or done by any Offender or Offenders againft this Act; and that every Perfon and Perfons, who {hall lufhined in fuftain Damages by any of the Offences laft mentioned, fhall be and are hereby enabled to fue for and le- maimin 6 Cattlc > cover fuch his or their Damages, the Sum to be recovered not exceeding the Sum of two hundred Pounds, againft the Inhabitants of the laid Hundred, who by this Ait fhall be made liable to anfwer all or any Part thereof; and that if fuch Perfon or Perfons fhall recover in fuch Action, and fue Execution againft any of fuch Inhabitants, ail other the Inhabitants of the Hundred, who by this Act fhall be made liable to all or any Part of the faid Damage, fhall be ratably and proportionably taxed, for and towards an equal Contribution for the Relief of fuch Inhabitant, againft whom fuch Execution fhall be had and le- , vied ; which Tax fhall be made, levied and raifed, by fuch Ways and Means, and in fuch Manner and Form, as is prefcribed and mentioned for the levying and railing Damages recovered againft Inhabitants of Hundreds in Cafes of Robberies in and by an Act, intituled, 2n ASi for the following Hue and Cry ', made 27 EIiz. c. 13. in the twenty- feventh Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Explained by 29 Geo. 2. c. 36. fin. 9. VIII. Provided neverthelefs, That no Perfon or Perfons fhall be enabled to recover any Damages by Virtue of this Act, unlefs he or they by themfelves, or by their Servants, within two Days after fuch Da- mage or Injury done him or them by any fuch Offender or Offenders as aforefaid, fhall give Notice of Pylons injured fuch Offence done and committed unto fome of the Inhabitants of fome Town, Village or Hamlet, near t0. B'y e J^ "" unto the Place where any fuch Fact fhall be committed, and fhall within four Days after fuch Notice, after'the'o'ffence give in his, her or their Examination upon Oath, or the Examination upon Oath of his, her or their Ser- committed, vant or Servants, that had the Care of his or their Houfes, Out-houfes, Corn, Hay, Straw or Wood, before any Juftice of the Peace of the County, Liberty or Divifion, where fuch Fact fhall be committed, inhabiting within the faid Hundred where the faid Fact fhall happen to be committed, or near unto the and t0 t, e „ a _ fame, whether he or they do know the Perfon or Perfons that committed fuch Fact, or any of them ; mined within and if upon fuch Examination it be confeffed, that he or they do know the Perfon or Perfons that four Days after committed the faid Fact, or any of them, that then he or they fo confeffing, fhall be bound by N °t |Ce > touching Recognizance to profecute fuch Offender or Offenders by Indictment, or otherwife, according to the '^ e 'u ^^ vl, edse Lr-i-ni a ol the Ortenders. aws or this Realm. IX. Provided alfo, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That where any Offence fhall be committed againft this Act, and any one of the faid Offenders fhall be apprehended, and Hundred not lawfully convicted of fuch Offence, within the Space of fix Months after fuch Offence committed, liable, if the no Hundred, or any Inhabitants thereof, fhall in any wife be fubjedt or liable to make any Satisfaction Offender is con-^ to the Party injured, for the Damages he fhall have fuftained ; any thing in this Act to the contrary not- m,,^" " &c n s * withftanding. X. Provided alfo, That no Perfon, who fhall fuftain any Damage by Reafon of any Offence to be Action to he committed by any Offender contrary to this Act, fhall be thereby enabled to fue, or bring any Action commenced againft any Inhabitants of any Hundred, where fuch Offence fhall be committed, except the Party or within a Year Parties fuftaining fuch Damage, fhall commence his or their Action or Suit within one Year next after j! fter the of " fuch Offence fhall be committed. e ' XI. And for the better and more effectual Difcovery of the Offenders above-mentioned, and bringing them to Juftice, Be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for j u ft; C es may any Juftice of the Peace, to iffue his Warrant to any Conftable, Headborough, or other Peace-Officer, iffue Warrant* thereby authorifing fuch Conftable, Headborough or other Peace-Officer, to enter into any Houfe, in or- t0 ^"J 1 for der to fearch for Venifon ftolen or unlawfully taken, contrary to the feveral Statutes againft Deer-Stealers, ftolen ^ eml0I! ' in fuch Manner, as by the Laws of this Realm fuch Juftice of the Peace may iffue his Warrant to fearch for ftolen Goods. XII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That if any Perfon or Perfons fhall appre- hend, or caufe to be convicted any of the Offenders above mentioned, and fhall be killed or wounded fo Perfons killed or as to lofe an Eye or the Ufe of any Limb, in apprehending or fecuring, or endeavouring to apprehend wounded inap- or fecure any of the Offenders above mentioned, upon Proof thereof made at the General Quarter- Seili- prehending Of- ons of the Peace for the County, Liberty, Divifion or Place, where the Offence was or fliall be commit- „™ t j c '^ 5 '° ''* tetl, or the Party killed, or receive fuch Wound, by the Perfon or Perfons lo apprehending, and caufmg the faid Offender to be convicted, or the Perfon or Perfons fo wounded, or the Executors or Adminiftra- tors of the Party killed, the Juftices of the faid Seffions fliall give a Certificate thereof to fuch Perfon or Perfons fo wounded, or to the Executors or Adminiftrators of the Perfon or Perfons fo killed, by winch he or they fhall be entitled to receive of the Sheriff of the faid Counry the Sum of fifty Pounds, to be al- lowed the faid Sheriff in pafiing his Accounts in the Exchequer; which fum of fifty Pounds the faid She- riff