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on account of the too great length of the 
acts we are obliged to refer the reader to 
them. There is nothing so dangerous, in a 
constitutional point of view, as what are 
called constructive treasons, by which per- 
sons are held guilty of treason, upon some- 
thing constructively deemed dangerous to 
the safety of the King. 
TREASURE trove, is where any money 
or coin, gold, silver, plate. Or bullion, is 
hidden in the earth, or other private place, 
the owner thereof being unknovvn j in 
which case, the treasure belongs to the 
King, or some other who claims by the 
King’s grant, or by prescription. But if he 
that hid it be known, or afterwards found 
out, the owner and not the King is entitled 
to it. If it be found in the sea, or upon 
the earth, it doth not belong to the King 
but to the finder, if no owner appear. 
TREASURER, an officer to whom the 
treasure of a prince, or corporation, is 
committed to be kept, and duly disposed 
of. The Lord High Treasurer of Great 
Britain or first Commissioner of the Trea- 
sury, when in commission, has under his 
charge and government all the King’s re- 
venue, which is kept iii the Exchequer. 
He holds his place during the King’s plea- 
sure, being instituted by the delivery of a 
white staff to him: he has the check of all 
the officers employed in collecting the cus- 
toms and other foyal revenues ; and in his 
gift and disposition are all the offices of the 
customs in the several ports of the king- 
dom ; escheators in every county are nomi- 
nated by him ; he also makes leases of the 
lands belonging to the crown. There is, 
besides the Lord Treasurer, a Treasurer of 
the King’s Hbushold, who is of the Privy 
Council, and, with the Comptroller and 
Steward of the Marshalsea, has great power. 
To these, may be added the Treasurer of 
the navy j as also the Treasurer of the 
King’s Chamber, and of the wardrobe ; and 
most corporations throughout the kingdom 
have treasurers, whose office is to receive 
their rents, and disburse their common ex- 
pences. The Treasurer of the County, is 
an officer that keeps the county-stock, in 
which office there are two in every county; 
who are chosen by the major part of the 
justices of the peace at Easter-sessions. 
They ought to’ have certain estates in lands, 
or to be worth 1 501. in personal estate, and 
are to continue in their office only for a 
year, at the end whereof, or within ten 
days after the expiration of the year, they 
must account to their successors, under 
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certain penalties. The county-stock which 
this officer has the keeping of, is raised by 
rating every parish annually ; and the same 
is from time to time disposed of to charita- 
ble uses, towards the relief of maimed sol- 
diers and mariners, prisoners in the county 
gaols, paying the salaries of governors of 
houses of correction, and relieving poor 
alms-houses, (See. 
TREES. See Timber. 
TREMOLITE, in mineralogy, is a spe- 
cies of the Talc genus, of which there are 
three sub-species, viz. the asbestos ; the 
common, and the glassy ; the colours of the 
last are yellowish, reddish, grey, and green; 
it occurs massive and ciystallized ; it is ea- 
sily frangible and not very heavy ; its con- 
stituent parts are 
Silica 65.00 
Magnesia 10.33 
Lime 18.00 
Oxide of iron.. 0.16 
Water and carbonic acid... 6.50 
99.99 
It is said to emit a phosphoric light when 
rubbed in the dark. Before the blow-pipe 
it melts without addition into a cellular 
white coloured scoria. It is found princi- 
pally in primitive mountains, and is there 
usually imbedded in limestone ; it is found 
in many parts of Germany, in the Shetland 
islands, and in the basaltic rock on which 
the castle of Edinburgh is built. 
TRENCHES, in fortification, are ditches 
cut by the besiegers, that they may ap- 
proath more securely to the place attacked ; 
vvhence they are also called lines of ap- 
proach. The tail of the trench is the place 
where it was begun, and its head is the 
place where it ends. The trenches are 
Usually opened, or begun, in the night- 
time ; sometimes within musket shot, and 
sometimes within half or whole cannon shot 
of the place. They are carried on in 
windinj'-lines, nearly parallel to the works 
of the fortress, so as not to be in the view 
of the enemy, nor exposed to the enemy’s 
shot. The workmen exploy ed in the trenches 
are always supported by a number of troops, 
to defend them against the sallies of the be- 
sieged; the pioneers sometimes work on 
their knees, and are usually covered with 
mantlets or faucissons; and the men who 
support them lie flat on their faces, in order 
to avoid the enemy’s shot. 
TRESPASS, is any transgression of the 
law, under treason, felony, or misprision of 
