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20s on owner for every great trespassing,
on oath by witness, before a justice:
goat taken by owner of plantation trespassing, he may convert to his own use.
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XIX. And whereas the keeping of goats either in wood-lands, or in any improved country, greatly tends to the destruction of timber: be it enacted, That from and after the passing of this act, upon complaint made before any justice of the peace, of any damage or trespass committed by any goat or goats, the party owning the same shall be summoned before said justice, and on proof of said trespass being made, on the oath of one credible witness, such owner of the goats may be fined any sum not exceeding twenty shillings for every goat so trespassing, as said justice of the peace shall think fit, to be paid to the complainant if he shall demand the same, or otherwise to the church wardens for the use of the poor of the parish; and if any person shall find a goat trespassing in his or her plantation, he may take the same, and keep or dispose of them, as his or her own property.
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