870

Unlawiul
pawning of
goods not
property of

pawner.

Persons
offering
articles in
pawn and
not giving a
good account
of them-
selves, etc.

Ch. 31. No. 12.] Pawnbrokers.

Unlawful pawning and taking in pawn.

28. (1) If any person knowingly and designedly pawns
with a pawnbroker anything being the property of another
person, the pawner not being employed or authorised by the
owner thereof to pawn the same, he shall be lable, on
summary conviction, to a fine of twenty-four dollars, and,
im addition thereto, to forfeit any sum not exceeding the
full value of the pledge as ascertained by the Magistrate.

(2) The fine and forfeiture when recovered shall be
applied towards making satisfaction thereout to the party
injured and defraying the costs of prosecution, as the
Magistrate may direct , but if the party injured declines
to accept of such satisfaction and costs, or if there is any
surplus of the fine and forfeiture, then the amount shall be
paid into the Treasury for the use of the Colony

29. (1) Any person who

(@) offers 10a pawnbroker an article by way of pawn,
being unable or refusing to give a satisfactory account
of the means by which he became possessed of the
article, or

(o) wilfully gives false information to a pawnbroker
as to whether an article offered by him in pawn to the
pawnbroker is his own property or not, or as to his
name and address, or as to the name and address of the
owner of the article, or

(c) not being entitled to redeem, and not having any
colour of title by law te redeem, a pledge, attempts or
endeavours to redeem the same.

shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) In every such case, and also in any case where, on
an article being offered in pawn to a pawnbroker, he
reasonably suspects that it has been stolen or otherwise
illegally or clandestinely obtained, the pawnbroker may
seize and detain the person and the article, or cither of them,
and shall deliver the person and the article or cither of them
(as the case may be) as soon as may be into the custody of a
constable, who shall, as soon as may be, convey the person,
if so detained, before a Magistrate to be dealt with according
to law.