price. 



STATUTES. 489 



parish, if the same horse, mare, gelding, colt or filly, shall 

 happen to be found in any town corporate or market town, or 

 else before any justice of peace of that county near to the place 

 where such horse, mare, gelding, colt, or tilly shall be found, 

 if it be out of a town corporate or market town ; and so as 

 proof be made within forty days then next ensuing by two 

 suf'^jient witnesses to be produced and deposed before such 

 head officer or justice (who by virtue of this Act shall have 

 authority to administer an oath in that behalf), that the 

 property of the same liorse, 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 property and The owner 

 power to have, take again and enjoy the said horse, mare, "'^y i^^^^s™ ^ 

 gelding, colt, or filly upon payment or readiness, or offer ^^.^^ j^j^ 

 to pay, to the party that shall have the possession and interest within six 

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

 receive and accept it, so much money as the same party shall P'^.y™S *he 

 depose and swear before such head officer or justice of 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) /or more effectual debarring 

 of xmlawfid Games. 



9. " And whereas a good and profitable statute was made Act 33 Hen. 8, 

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

 the Eighth, (among other things) for the debarring of unlaw- "IJ^"^^^^]^^ , 

 ful games ; and whereas by the said statute no power is given ^^j-f, effectual. 

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

 sons found playing contrary to law any other security than 

 their own recognizances that they or any of them shall not 

 from thenceforth use 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- 



