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Acts causing or tending to cause Danger to Life or bodily Harm
17.Impeding a Person endeavouring to save himself from Shipwreck.
18.Shooting or attempting to shoot, or wounding with Intent to do grievous bodily Harm.
21.Attempting to choke, &c. in order to commit any indictable Offence.
23.Maliciously administering Poison, &c. so as to endanger Life or inflict grievous bodily Harm.
24.Maliciously administering Poison, &c. with Intent to injure, aggrieve, or annoy any other Person.
25.If the Jury be not satisfied that any Person charged is guilty of Felony; but guilty of Misdemeanor they may find him guilty accordingly.
26.Not providing Apprentices or Servants with Food, &c. whereby Life endandered.
29.Causing Gunpowder to explode, to any Person an explosive Substance, or throwing corrosive Fluid on a Person, with Intent to do grievous bodily Harm.
30.Placing Gunpowder near a Building, with Intent to do bodily Injury to any Person.
31.Setting Spring Guns, &c., with Intent to inflict grievous bodily Harm.
32.Placing Wood, &c., on a Railway, with Intent to endanger Passengers.
33.Casting Stone, &c. upon a Railway Carriage, with Intent to endanger the Safety of any Person therein.
34.Doing or emitting anything to endanger Passengers by Railway.
35.Drivers of Carriages injuring Persons by furious Driving.
36.Obstructing or assaulting a Clergyman or other Minister in the Discharge of his Duties.
37.Assaulting a Magistrate, &c. on account of his preserving Wreck.
38.Assault with Intent to commit Felony, or on Peace Officers, &c.
39.Assaults with Intent to obstruct the Sale of Grain, or its free Passage.
42.Persons committing any Common Assault or Battery may be imprisoned or compelled by Two Magistrates to pay Fine and Costs not exceeding 5l.
43.Persons convicted of aggravated Assaults on Females and Boys under Fourteen Years of Age may be imprisoned or fined.
44.If the Magistrates dismiss the Complaint, they shall make out a Certificate to that Effect.
45.Certificate or Conviction shall be a Bar to any other Proceedings.
Rape, Abduction, and Defilement of Women
51.Carnally knowing a Girl between the Ages of Ten and Twelve.
53.Abduction of a Woman against her Will, from Motives of Lucre. Fraudulent Abduction of a Girl under Age against the Will of her Father, &c. Offender incapable of taking any of her Property.
54.Forcible Abduction of any Woman with Intent to marry her.
Making Gunpowder to commit Offences, and searching for the same
66.A Person loitering at Night, and suspected of any Felony against this Act, may be apprehended.
67.Punishment of Principals in the Second Degree, and Accessories.
68.Offences committed within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty.
73.Guardians and Overseers may be required to prosecute in certain Cases of Offences against this Act. Costs of Prosecution. Clerk of Guardians may be bound over to prosecute.
74.On a Conviction for Assault the Court may order Payment of the Prosecutor's Costs by the Defendant.
76.Summary Proceedings in England may be under the 11 & 12 Vict. c. 43., and in Ireland under the 14 & 15 Vict. c. 93. Except in London and the Metropolitan Police District.
77.The Costs of the Prosecution of Misdemeanors against this Act may be allowed.
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