5 G. 4. bonds. Every person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his person in any street, road, or public highway, or in the view thereof, or in any place of public resort, with intent to insult any female; Every person wandering abroad and endeavouring by the exposure of wounds or deformities to obtain or gather alms; Every person going about as a gatherer or collector of alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions of any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent pretence; Every person running away, and leaving his wife and children chargeable to any parish, township, or place; Every person playing or betting in any street, road, highway, or other open and public place, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, at any game or pretended game of chance; Every person having in his or her custody or possession any picklock key, crow, jack, bit, or other implement, with intent feloniously to break into any dwelling-house, warehouse, coach-house, stable, or outbuilding, or being armed with any gun, pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, or having upon him or her any instrument, with intent to commit any felonious act; Every person being found in or upon any dwellinghouse, warehouse, coach-house, stable, or outhouse, or in any inclosed yard, garden or area. for any unlaw Every suspected person or reputed thief, frequenting any river, canal, or navigable stream, dock or basin, or any quay, wharf, or warehouse near or adjoining there to, or any street, highway, or avenue leading thereto, or any place of public resort, or any avenue leading thereto, or any street, highway, or place adjacent, with intent to commit felony; And every person apprehended as an idle and disorderly person, and violently resisting any constable or other peace officer so apprehending, and being subsequently convicted of the offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond within the true intent and meaning of this act; and it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him by the confession of such offender, or by the evidence of one or more credible witness) to the house of correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months; and every such picklock key, crow, jack, bit, and other implement, and every such gun, pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, and every such instrument as aforesaid, shall, by the conviction of the offender, become forfeited. § 4. Incorrigible Rogues. Every person breaking or escaping out of any place of legal confinement before the expiration of the term for which he or she shall have been commited by virtue of this act; Every person committing any offence against this act which shall subject him or her to be dealt with as a rogue and vagabond, such person having been at some former time adjudged so to be and duly convicted thereof; 5 G. 4. c. 83. Rogues and vagabonds. And every person apprehended as a rogue and vagabond, and violently resisting any constable or other peace officer so apprending him or her, and being subsequently convicted of the offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed an incorrigible rogue; and it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace to commit such offender (being thereof convicted before him by the confession of such offendder, or by the evidence on oath of one or more credible witness) to the house of correction, there to remain until the next general or quarter sessions of the peace; and every such offender shall be there kept to hard labour during the period of his or her imprisonment. § 5. Apprehending Offenders. Constables neglecting Duty in that respect. And it shall be lawful for any person whatsoever to apprehend any person who shall be found offending against this act, and forthwith to take and convey him or her before some justice of the peace, or to deliver him or her to any constable or other peace officer; and in case any constable or other peace officer shall refuse, or wilfully neglect to take such offender into custody, and to take and convey him or her before some justice of the peace, or shall not use his best endeavours to apprehend and to convey before some justice of the peace any person that he shall find offending against this act, it shall be deemed a neglect of duty in such officer, and he shall, on conviction, be punished in such manner as is hereinafter directed. § 6. And it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, that upon oath being made before him, any person hath c. 83. committed or is suspected to have committed any of- 5 Geo. 4. fence against this act, to issue his warrant to apprehend and bring before him or some other justice of the peace the person so charged, to be dealt with as is directed by this act. § 7. Constables and other Persons may apprehend Offenders. And it shall be lawful for any constable, peace officer, or other person apprehending any person charged with being an idle and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond, or an incorrigible rogue, to take any horse, mule, ass, cart, car, caravan, or other vehicle, or goods in the possession or use of such person, and to take and convey the same as well as such person before some justice of the peace, and for every justice of the peace to order that such offender shall be searched, and that his or her trunks, boxes, bundles, parcels, or packages shall be inspected in the presence of the said justice, and of him or her, and also that any cart, car, caravan, or other vehicle which may have been found in his or her possession or use, shall be searched in his or her presence; and to order that any money which may be then found upon such offender shall be paid and applied towards the expence of apprending, conveying to the house of correction, and maintaining such offender during the time for which he or she shall have been committed; and if, upon such search, money sufficient for the purposes aforesaid be not found, it shall be lawful to order that a part, or if necessary, the whole, of such other effects then found, shall be sold, and the produce shall be paid and applied as aforesaid, and that 5 G. 4. c. 83. Appeal. Recogni zance. the overplus, after deducting the charges of such sale, shall be returned to the said offender. § 8. And when any justice shall commit any such incorrigible rogue to the house of correction, there to remain till the next general or quarter sessions, or when any such idle and disorderly person, rogue, and vagabond, or incorrigible rogue, shall give notice of his or her intention to appeal against the conviction, and shall enter into recognizance to prosecute such appeal, such justice shall require the person by whom such offender shall be apprehended, and the person or persons whose evidence shall appear to him to be material to prove the offence, to become bound in recognizance to appear at the said general or quarter sessions; and the justices of the peace are hereby authorized, at the request of any person who shall have become bound in any such recognizance, to order the treasurer of the county, riding, division, or place in which the offence shall have been committed, to pay such sum or sums of money as to the court shall seem reasonable and sufficient to reimburse for the expences he, she, or they shall have been severally put to, and for their trouble and loss of time; and in case any such person or persons as aforesaid shall refuse to enter into such recognizance, it shall be lawful for such justice to commit them to the common gaol, there to remain until they shall enter into such recognizance, or shall be otherwise discharged by due course of law. § 9. And when any incorrigible rogue shall have been committed to the house of correction, there to remain until the next general or quarter sessions, it shall be lawful for the justices of the peace there assembled to |