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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. 



Erery sale 

 otherwise 

 made shall 

 be void. 



The justices 

 of peace may 

 hear and 

 determine the 

 offences afore- 

 said. 



perfect entry into the said book of such his knowledge of the 

 person, and of the name, surname, mystery and place of the 

 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 witness, 

 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 pounds ; 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 queen'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 

 delDt 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 or 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 determine 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 nevertheless 

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

 nx 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 skc months by the party from whom the 

 same was stolen, or by his executors, or administrators, 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 



