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9. C Of Theft or Stealing.

Punishment

If any one commit theft his punishment shall be
as follows:
1. He shall be made to do Penance more or less public.+ + See Exec: p. 8.
[2. He may be made to suffer penitential Imprisonment for
not less than one week nor more than four. ++] ++ See Ch: Of Punishments.
3. He shall be confined to hard Labour for a quarter of a
year; and besides that for the space of a day for every [sixpence](a) of
the Value of the thing stolen. + + See Ch: Of Pecuniary Punishments.
4. Where the number of days which the Offender would have thus

Notes.

intending not to be amendable to Law but what are here mentioned and
that therefore the enumeration above given is exhaustive.

[(a) Sixpence] The sum will of course require to be different according
to the different values of money in different countries. The rule might
be that it should amount to half a day's Wages according to the ordinary
price of labour. On this plan a man of the lowest Class which is the
Class to which the greater part of thieves will belong will be made to work
two days in a state of humiliation and confinement for every day's Subsistence,
which he would have got without working had he escaped detection.

Identifier: | JB/072/103/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	of theft or stealing
Image	001	Titles	[[titles::punishment / notes / aggravations are [i] / exposition / aggravation ii / exposition / note / aggravation iii / exposition]]
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23720
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