STATUTES. 491 



corporate or raarket toAvn, or else before any justice of peace 

 of that county near to the place where such horse, mare, geld- 

 ing-, colt or fill}'- shall he found, if it he out of a town corporate 

 or market town ; and so as proof be made within forty days 

 .then next ensuing by two sufficient witnesses, to be produced 

 and deposed before such head officer or justice (who by virtue 

 of this act shall have authority to minister an oath in that 

 behalf), that the property of the same horse, mare, gelding, 

 colt or filly so claimed was in the party by or from whom such 

 claim is made, and was stolen from him within six months 

 next before such claim of any such horse, gelding, mare, colt 

 or filly ; but that the party from whom the said horse, mare, 

 gelding, colt or filly was stolen, his executors or administrators 

 shall and may at all times after, notwithstanding any such 

 sale or sales in any fair or open market thereof made, have The owner 

 property and power to have, take again and enjoy the said may redeem a 

 horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly upon payment or readiness, horse stolen 

 or ofi:er to pay, to the p)arty that shall have the possession and -^[^{^^ ^x 

 interest of the same horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, if he months after 

 will receive and accept it, so much money as the same party paying the 

 shall depose and swear before such head officer or justice of price, 

 peace (who by virtue of this act shall have authority to 

 minister and give an oath in that behalf) that he paid for the 

 same bond fide, without fraud or collusion ; any law, statute 

 or other thing to the contrary thereof in anywise notwith- 

 standing. 



2 Geo. II. Cap. 28. 



An Act (among other things) for more effectual dcharriug 

 of unlaivful Games. 



9, "And whereas a good and profitable statute was made Act 33 Hen. 



in the three-and-twentieth year of the reign of King Henry 8, c. 9, 



the Eiffhth, (among: other things) for the debarring of unlaw- f o'^'^.^^t ^^^i- 



PT All ixi,-iiv.j. • • lawful srames 



f ul games ; And whereas by the said statute no power is given ^.^^^^^ ^^^.^ 



unto the justices of the peace to demand and take from per- effeetual. 

 sons found playing contrary to law any other security than 

 their own recognizances that they or any of them shall not 

 from thenceforth iise such unlawful games, unless such per- 

 sons are found playing contrary to law upon the view of one 

 or more justice or justices of the peace ;" for remedy thereof, 

 be it further enacted, that where it shall be proved upon the 

 oath of two or more credible witnesses, before any justice or 

 justices of the peace, as well as where such justice or justices 

 shall find upon his or their own view that any person or per- 

 sons have or hath used or exorcised any unlawful game con- 

 trary to the said statute, the said justice or justices shall have 



