Crimes Resulting in Transportation
Some of the crimes punishable by transportation included:
Grand larceny - every theft above the value of one shilling
Buying or receiving stolen goods, jewels or plate
Ripping and stealing lead, iron, copper or buying or receiving
Stealing ore from blacklead mines
Stealing from furnished lodgings
Setting fire to underwood
Stealing letters or destroying same
Embezzling naval stores
Petty larcenies
Assaulting with intent to rob
Returning from transportation
Stealing fish from a pond or river
Stealing trees or plants above value of 5 shillings
Stealing children with their apparel
Bigamy
Assault
Cutting or burning clothes
Counterfeiting
Solemnising clandestine marriages
Manslaughter
Stealing a shroud from a grave
Watermen carrying too many passengers on the Thames
Rioting
Machine breaking
Murder
Sedition
Sacrilege
Rape