PAWNBROKERS continued.

order to receive penalty for taking in a pawn without writing the
description of the goods, ii. 262.

distress warrant for a penalty, ii. 263.

award of satisfaction to the party injured, when goods by neglect are
rendered of less value than when pledged, ii. 264.

commitment (in default of penalty being paid) for knowingly pawning
the goods of another without consent, ii. 264.

summons to, for refusing to deliver the pawn on principal and interest
being tendered, ii. 265.

taking more than the legal profit on a pawn, ii. 265.

information thereon, ii. 266.

PENALTY.

form of mitigating. See tit. GAME, i, 581.

PEWTER. See tit. ExCISE and CUSTOMS.

PIGEONS.

information for shooting, under 2 Geo. 2. c. 29. — ii. 268.
PLANTS. See tit. TURNIPS, &c.

commitment for stealing, i. 275.

PLATE.

conviction for exposing to sale on a stage by way of lottery, i. 587.
commitment for transposing the stamp on, from one piece to another
ii. 497.

PLAY.

warrant for an assault on account of money won at, i. 111.
commitment thereon for want of sureties, i. 231.

PLAYERS.

information for performing a tragedy without licence, under 10 Geo. 2.
c. 28. ii. 269.

POISON.

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commitment for administering, &c. See tit. WOMEN.

a misdemeanor in attempting to, ii. 243.
administering with intent to murder, ii. 246.
warrant to apprehend a woman for petit treason in poisoning her
husband, ii. 532.

POLYGAMY. See tit. BIGAMY.

POOR.

warrant for returning lists of overseers, on 43 Eliz. c. 2.-

of high constable to petty constable, ii. 270.

return of the vestry to the magistrates, ii. 271.

appointment of overseers, ii. 271.

ii. 270.

an assistant overseer, under 59 Geo. 3. c. 12. ii. 272.
notice to quit, to be given by overseers of the poor, in order to recover
possession of parish houses or lands, ii. 273.

information for refusing to quit possession within one month after
the foregoing notice, ii. 273.

summons thereupon, ii. 274.

warrant thereon to cause possession to be given, ii. 275.

form of a rate or assessment for the relief of the poor, ii. 277.
allowance of the rate, ii: 277.

notice of publication of a rate in the parish church, ii. 277.

appeal against a poor's rate, under 41 Geo. 3. c. 23. — ii. 278.

precept to summon defaulters to the poor's rate, ii. 278.
summons thereon, ii. 280.

POOR-continued.

information for non-payment of a poor rate, on 3 Geo. 4. c. 23. — ii.

280.

summons thereon, ii. 281.

warrant of distress thereon, ii. 281.

overseers' return of want of distress, under 43 Eliz. c. 2.

ii. 283.

commitment thereon, on 43 Eliz. e. 2. and 3 Geo. 4.
c. 23. ii. 283.

indorsement on warrant of distress to be executed in
another county, ii. 285.

warrant to apprehend a man for deserting his family, ii. 285.
the like for not applying a proper proportion of his earnings to-
wards the maintenance of his family, ii. 285.

conviction and commitment of a person as a rogue and vagabond
for having deserted his family, on 5 Geo. 4. c. 83.-
ii. 286.
notice from the overseers of the poor to the father of a poor person of
an intended application for an order of maintenance, on 59 Geo. 3.
c. 12.- - ii. 288.

overseer's complaint, in order to have an order of maintenance on pa-
rents, &c. ii. 288.

order on a parent or child having ability to give relief to poor relatives,

ii. 289.

information thereon for disobeying an order of maintenance, &c.
ii. 290.

warrant of distress thereon, ii. 291.

commitment thereon, ii. 292.

order to seize the goods and receive the rents, &c. of parents and bus-
bands having run away, ii. 294.

upon overseers to give relief to a poor person, ii. 295.
summons thereon to shew cause why they refuse, ii. 296.

order to overseer to give relief, or to attend and shew cause to the
contrary, ii. 297.

commitment for misbehaviour in a workhouse, on 50 Geo. 3. c. 38.--
ii. 297.

assignment of pension of a person receiving parish relief, on 59 Geo. 3.
c. 12.- ii. 298.

order to overseers, &c. to receive pensions of persons leaving their
families chargeable, ii. 298.

the like, to receive seamen's wages for the indemnity of parishes,

ii. 299.

certificate to the commissioners of Chelsea Hospital when an order
has been made, ii. 300.

assignment of a pension of a Chelsea or other pensioner in
Scotland, under 6 Geo. 4. c. 27.ii. 300.

appointment of select vestry, under 59 Geo. 3. c. 12. - ii. 301.
affidavit of a poor person wanting maintenance, ii. 302.

order to parish officers to relieve, or to appear and shew cause for
refusing, ii. 302.

the like for temporary relief, ii. 303.

warrant thereon for refusing relief, ii. 303.

order of maintenance, ii. 304.

contract for maintenance, under 45 Geo. 3. c. 54.,-- ii. 304.

order to relieve after application to overseers and refusal, ii. 305.

POOR-continued.

form of agreement at a public meeting for a single parish to adopt the
provisions of the 22 Geo. 3. c. 83. ii. 306.

consent and approbation of justices, ii. 307.

agreement for two or more parishes, &c. (as above), ii. 307.
for uniting the parishes, &c. for the better maintain-
ing and employing their poor, ii. 308.

entry to be made by clerk of the peace or town clerk, ii.
310.

notice of the meeting, ii. 310.

appointment of a guardian, ii. 311.

visitor, ii. 311.

governor, ii. 311.

treasurer, ii. 312.

deputy visitor, ii. 312.

draft by guardians on churchwardens, &c.
appointed to collect the poor's rates,
ii. 312.

certificate of serving the office of visitor,
ii. 313.

security for money borrowed, ii. 313.

order for the admission of a pauper, ii. 314.
justice's direction to excuse the badge, ii.

314.

transfer of the security for the money ad-
vanced, ii. 314.

mode of adjusting the parish accounts men-
tioned in the act respecting utensils,
materials, furniture, rent, &c. ii. 315.
the like respecting victuals, beer, firing, &c.
ii. 316.

rules, orders, &c. to be observed and enforced at every poor house,
under 22 Geo. 3. c. 38. and 49 Geo. 3. c. 124. ii. 317.
appointment of workhouse governor, by 50 Geo. 3. c. 50. ii. 319.
commitment of an overseer for an assault upon a pauper entitled to re-
lief on application to him to grant it, ii. 320.

summons to overseers to verify and pass their accounts, ii. 320.
information thereon for refusing, under 59 Geo. 3. c. 49. — ii, 321.
commitment thereon, ii. 322.

allowance of account, ii. 323.

warrant of distress for balance found due from late overseers, ii.

323.

order upon churchwarden, &c. for the maintenance of a poor child
settled in--but residing with its mother in-for nurture, ii. 324.
certificate of settlement, ii. 326, 327.

allowance of the above, ii. 326, 327.

examination of a pauper where settlement is by birth, ii. 328.

hiring and service, id.
warrant for paupers to be examined as to their settlement, ii. 329.
a pauper to be examined as to settlement in order to the
adjudication, ii. 330, 332.

summons of the parish officers of the place where pauper is in-
tended to be removed, to shew cause against the
above order, ii. 330.

POOR-continued.

summons of the pauper to shew cause against his removal, ii. 331.
warrant to bring a pauper, in order to the adjudication as to
his settlement, ii. 331.

general order of removal, under 13 & 14 Car. 2. - ii. 332.

deputation of a person to remove a pauper, under 54 Geo. 3. c. 170.-
ii. 333.

suspension of an order of removal to be indorsed on the back thereof,
ii. 334.

subsequent permission to execute the above order; and order for
payment of expences incurred by such suspension, ii. 334.
information of overseer of refusal to discharge the above-
mentioned expences, ii. 335.

summons thereon, ii. 336.

warrant of distress thereon, under 35 Geo. 3. c. 101.
--ii. 336.

information against a person returning from a parish to which he was
removed by an order, under 5 Geo. 4. c. 83. ii. 338.

commitment thereon, ii. 338.

order of removal of a certificate person, ii. 340.

commitment of a pauper maintained in a workhouse for disorderly con-
duct, under 55 Geo. 3. c. ii. 341.

supersedeas of an order of an removal, ii. 342.

notice of abandonment of order after the removal of a pauper, ii. 343.
examination of a pauper to found an indictment for conspiracy against
two parish officers for procuring a poor couple to marry, in
order to burthen the man's parish with the maintenance of
the woman, ii. 344.

the like, against overseers for compelling an impotent woman in
labour to go out of one parish into another, in order to make
her chargeable to the said parish, ii. 346.

the like, for removing a female bastard child out of one parish into
another, and there leaving it to be maintained, ii. 347.
pass of a rogue and vagaboud, under 17 Geo. 2. c. 5.- -ii. 347.
certificate of the justice who signs the above pass as to the con-
veying the pauper, ii. 349.

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vagrants' pass to Scotland, under 17 Geo. 2. c. 5.-ii. 349.

warrant to a master of a ship to export a vagrant to Ireland, ii. 354.
PORTERAGE.

summons for neglect, in not delivering game within six hours after its
arrival by a coach in London, under 39 Geo. 3. c. 58. ii. 366.

POST HORSES.

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information on the post horse act, 4 Geo. 4. c. 62.—ii. 358.

summons thereon, ii. 359.

information against a post master for delivering a false certificate,
under 55 Geo. 3. c. 51. and 48 Geo. 3. c. 99. — ii. 360.
conviction thereon, ii. 361.

VOL. II.

and judgment dismissed, under 4 Geo. 4. c. 62.-ii. 361.
where the penalty is mitigated, ii. 362.

warrant of distress, ii, 363.

to apprehend and commitment, ii. 364.

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POST HORSES-continued.

information for issuing a ticket with a charge by the mile, and taking
a greater price for the stage without accounting to the collector,
ii. 365.

POST OFFICE.

complaint of a deputy post master, of money due for letters sent by
post, under 9 Anne, c. 10. ii. 355.

summons to shew cause thereon, ii. 355.

order for payment thereon, ii. 356.

warrant of distress thereon for non-payment of money

due and costs, ii. 357.

commitment for stealing letters, &c. from, s«e tit. MISDEMEANOR, ii.
240.

POUND BREACH.

information for, on 3 Geo. 4. c. 106. — i. 349.

warrant to levy hue and cry thereon, i. 350.
apprehend thereon, i. 351.

commitment thereon, i. 352.

recoguisance to prosecute for the same, i. 353.

with sureties to answer to an indictment, i. 353.

POWER OF ATTORNEY.

commitment for forging stamps on seaman's, i. 491.

PRINTS. See tit. LIBEL, ii. 158.

commitment for publishing obscene prints, i. 192.

PRINTERS.

exposing the same for sale, i. 193, 194.

keeping a room for the purpose of exhibiting indecent
prints, i. 194.

exhibiting obscene prints generally, i. 194.

conviction for using a printing press, &c. without notice; or using the
the same place not specified in notice, or not keeping accounts as
required by 39 Geo. 3. c. 79.--ii. 367.

PRISON.

commitment of a rogue for breaking, i. 367.

for assisting prisoners of war in escaping from, ii. 244.
PRISONERS OF WAR.

commitments for assisting, &c. to escape. See tit. MISDEMEANOR, ii.
244, 245.

PRIZE MONEY.

commitment for personating a seamen to receive, i. 485.

PROFANENESS. See tit. BLASPHEMY.

PROMISSORY NOTE. See tit. LARCENY, ii. 148, 149.

commitment for counterfeiting and uttering a false, under 2 Geo. 2.
c. 25.-i. 495.

forging an indorsement on, i. 496.

having an engraved plate in possession purporting to
be, i. 490.

conviction for negotiating, for less than 20 shillings, under 48 Geo. 3.
c. 88. ii. 368.

warrant of distress for the penalty thereon, ii. 369.

complaint by the holder of, under 51. of the failure of payment by per-
son liable to pay the same for seven days after demand, on
37 Geo. 3. c. 61.-ii. 370.

summons thereon, ii. 370.