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APPENDIX. 



A note in 

 writing' shall 

 be given to 

 the buyer. 



The penalty 

 of the person 

 offending in 

 any of the 

 cases afore- 

 said. 



Every sale 

 otherwise 

 made shall 

 be void. 



The justices 

 of peace may 

 hear and de- 

 termine the 

 offences 

 aforesaid. 



person, and of tlie name, surname, mystery and place of tlio 

 dwelling or resiancy of the same person, and also the true 

 price or value that shall be bond fide taken or had for any 

 such horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly so sold, given, ex- 

 changed or put away, so far as he can understand the same, " 

 and then give to the party so buying or taking by gift, ex- 

 change or otherwise, such horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, 

 requiring and paying twopence for the same, a true and per- 

 fect note in writing of all the full contents of the same, sub- 

 scribed with his hand ; on pain that every person that so shall 

 sell, give, exchange or put away any horse, mare, gelding, 

 colt or filly without being known to the toll taker or other 

 officer aforesaid, or without bringing such a voucher or wit- 

 ness, causing the same to be entered as aforesaid, and every 

 person making any untrue testimony or avouchment in the 

 behalf aforesaid, and every toll taker, book keeper or other 

 officer of fair or market aforesaid, offending in the premises 

 contrary to the true meaning aforesaid, shall forfeit for every 

 such default the sum of Five jmumh ; but also that every sale, 

 gift, exchange, or other putting away of any horse, mare, 

 gelding, colt, filly, in fair or market, not used in all points 

 according to the true meaning aforesaid, shall be void ; the 

 one-half of all which forfeitures to be to the c^ueen's majesty, 

 her heirs and successors, and the other half to him or them 

 that will sue for the same before the justices of peace, or in 

 any of her majesty's ordinary courts of record, by bill, plaint, 

 action of debt or information, in which no essoin or protection 

 shall be allowed. 



3. And be it further enacted, That the justices of peace of 

 every place and county, as well within liberties as without, 

 shall have authority in their sessions, within the limits of 

 their authority and commission, to inquire, hear and deter- 

 mine all offences against this statute, as they may do any 

 other matter triable before them. 



4. And be it further enacted. That if any horse, mare, 

 gelding, colt or filly, after twenty days next ensuing the end 

 of this session of parliament, shall be stolen, and after shall 

 be sold in open fair or market, and the same shall be used 

 in all points and circumstances as aforesaid, that yet never- 

 theless the sale of any such horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, 

 "within six months next after the felony done, shall not take 

 away the property of the owner from whom the same was 

 stolen, so as claim be made within six months by the jiarty 

 from whom the same was stolen, or by his executors or admi- 

 nistrators, or by any other by any of their appointment, at or 

 in the town or parish where the same horse, mare, gelding, 

 colt or filly shall be found, before the mayor or other head 

 officer of the same town or parish, if the same horse, mare, 

 gelding, colt or filly, shall happen to be found in any town 



