Section X. Whenever any boy, under the age of sixteen years, is convicted

X. Whenever any boy, under the age of sixteen years, is convicted before a Justice of the Peace, either of simple larceny Punishment for boys. under the said Act XXl. af 1839, or, under this Act, of , feloniously receiving goods or money knowing the same to be stolen, or > of being an accessoly to any felony which is punishable on summary conviction before any Justice, the &id Justice, if he thinks fit, may sentence him to receive corporal punishment not exceeding fifteen stripes of a light ratan, instead of sentencing him to imprisonment. XI, .Any d /' f ', I i * ? 1. . . 3 . '. '.I , . !: A.T I . . ,) :7 i, . . ' ? . ACT No. XIII. OF `1859.` XI. Any person who s h d commit any assault, forcible entzy, or other injury accompadied with force, hot beidg felody, 'Cases of assault, forcible entlj., ot m e t injury not w.iithin the gaid Town, against the pel*aon or property `of` being felony. any' pergon wl~atsoever, shall be liable, bn cbnvietion thereof before a Jdstice of the Peace, $0 `s` fine not exceedirig one hundred Ptkpees, and the said Justice may award the whole or any part of dudi fine to the party or phrties aggrieved, by war af satisfaction for suoh idjury, or, in the discretiori of such Justice, suah person shall be imprisbned, with or without hwd labour, for any time not exueeding four Calehdar months, 911. Any Deputy Superintendent or Inspector of Police may take Persons charged with into custody, or authorize .a Constable to take ifit0 cusiecent assault may be ap- tad, . . prnhnntlcd hy Police with- .yl wiil~aut wtimmt, ahy person ti'ho within the mid out warrant, though assault not hcfi,i,;tted ii, view Town shall be charged by any other person with coma PoJice.. mitting an a,ggrti,vated assault., i n every case in which such Deputy Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall have good reason to believe that suoh tiseault hafi been cbmtnitt&d, althau,gh nbt within view of su.~h..DepuQ Buperintendent or ~ n s ~ e ~ t o r , and that by reason of the i.ecefit commission .of the affenca, a warrant could not have been iobtaiaed for the appeapance of the offender. . .