CAP. VII.
An ACT to define and describe the Crime of Petit Larceny.
Persons convicted of stealing Goods, &c. to the value of 20s. to be punished for Grand Larceny.
Under 20s. for Petit Larceny.
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BE it Enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, and Assembly, That if any person shall feloniously take and carry away any goods, chattels, money or effects to the value of Twenty Shillings, and be thereof duly convicted, such offence shall be deemed, adjudged and punished as Grand Larceny: And if the value shall be found by verdict on trial to be less than Twenty Shillings, then such offence shall be deemed, adjudged and punished as Petit Larceny.
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31 Geo. III. C. 7.