Later, no person may recover more than 200 pounds after a hue and
cry unless there are at least two witnesses to the robbery.
No one may advertise a reward for return of things stolen or lost
with no questions asked, because this has resulted in thefts and
robberies.
Justices of the Peace may authorize constables and other peace
officers to enter any house to search for stolen venison. Any
person apprehending an offender or causing such to be convicted
who is killed or wounded so as to lose an eye or the use of a limb
shall receive 50 pounds. Any person buying suspect venison or skin
of deer shall produce the seller or be punished the same as a deer
killer: 30 pounds or, if he couldn't pay, one year in prison
without bail and one hour in the pillory on market day. An
offender who discloses his accomplices and their occupations and
places of abode and discovers where they may be found and they are
subsequently convicted, shall be pardoned.
Anyone stealing sheep or cattle or parts thereof is a felon and
shall suffer death without benefit of clergy.
Persons who steal or aid in stealing any lead, iron bar, iron
gate, palisadoe, or iron rail fixed to any house or its outhouses,
garden, orchard, or courtyard is guilty of felony and may be
transported for seven years. In 1756 also included was copper,
brass, bell-metal, and solder; buyers and receivers; and mills,
warehouses, workshops, wharves, ships, barges, and other vessels.
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