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Embezzlement by persons in the Queen's service, or by the police.
Venue.
Form of warrant of commitment and indictment.
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70. Whosoever, being employed in the public service of Her Majesty, or being a constable or other person employed in the police of any county, city, borough, district, or place whatsoever, and intrusted by virtue of such employment with the receipt, custody, management, or control of any chattel, money, or valuable security, shall embezzle any chattel, money, or valuable security which shall be intrusted to or received or taken into possession by him by virtue of his employment, or any part thereof, or in any manner fraudulently apply or dispose of the same or any part thereof to his own use or benefit, or for any purpose whatsoever except for the public service, shall be deemed to have feloniously stolen the same from Her Majesty, and being convicted thereof shall be liable . . . to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years . . .; and every offender against this or the last preceding section may be dealt with, indicted, tried, and punished either in the county or place in which he shall be apprehended or be in custody, or in which he shall have committed the offence; and in every case of larceny, embezzlement, or fraudulent application or disposition of any chattel, money, or valuable security in this and the last preceding section mentioned, it shall be lawful in the warrant of commitment by the justice of the peace before whom the offender shall be charged, and in the indictment to be preferred against such offender, to lay the property of any such chattel, money, or valuable security in Her Majesty.
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