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 A. D.i 72 2. Anno nono Georgii Regis. C. 28. 471 or Extent, fhall forfeit to the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs the Sum of two hundred Pounds, to be recovered by AiStion of Debt, or of tbe Cafe, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in which no Effoin, Protection, Wager of Law, or more than one Imparlance fhall be allowed ; and if any Perfon or Perfons fhall refill or oppofe Perr on » o P p fine any Officer or Officers of Juftice, or any Perfon or Perfons, who fhall be aiding or affifting to fuch Offi- Officers, &c. (lull cer or Officers in the Execution of any Writ, or any Efcape Warrant, or any Warrant or Warrants of be tranfjorted. any Jultice or Juftices of the Peace, or of any legal Procefs, Execution or Extent, within the (aid Place called Suffolk-Place, or the Mint., or within any the Limits, or pretended Limits thereof, or (hall make Refcous of any Prifoner taken upon any fuch Writ, Procefs, Execution or Extent, within the Place or Limits aforefaid, or fhall there knowingly harbour or conceal any Prifoner fo taken, or any Perfon or Perfons, who refcued any fuch Prifoner, or fhall be any Ways contriving, or knowingly and willingly abetting, aiding or affifting, in reiifting any fuch Officer or Officers, or in refcuing any fuch Prifoner or Prifoners taken as aforefaid, or fhall prefume to excrcife any unlawful Jurifdiclion, or make or execute, or join in the making or executing any pretended Rule, Order or Ordinance, for fupporting any pretended Privilege within the faid Place called Suffolk-Place, or the Mint, or any the Limits, or pretended Limits thereof, contrary to Law, or for oppofing or hindering the due Execution of any legal Procefs, or any lawful Warrant, or any Rule, Order or Decree of any Court of Law or Equity, all and every Perfon and Perfons fo offending, being thereof lawfully convicled upon any IndiiStment or Information to be brought or filed within fix Months after the Offence committed, fhall be adjudged guilty of Felony, and fhall be tranfported to fome or one of his Majefty's Colonies or Plantations in America, by fuch Ways, Means and Methods, and in fuch Manner, and for fuch Time, and under fuch Pains and Penalties, as Felons in other Cafes are by Law to be tranfported. ' III. And for more effectually preventing for the future the great and enormous Mifchiefs and Abides, ' which have been riotoufiy committed and done within the faid Place called Suffolk-Place, or the Mint, ' or within any the Limits, or pretended Limits thereof, by wicked Perfons in Vizards, Masks, or dif- ' guifed Habits, or having their Faces or Bodies difguifed ;' Be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That if after the tenth Day of Oclober one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, any Perfon or Perfons whatfoever; wearing any Vizard, Mafk, or difguized Habit, or having his or their Face or Faces, or Body Perform difguifed or Bodies difguifed, fhall within the faid Place called Suffolk-Place, or the Mint, or within any the Limits, abetting Riots, or pretended Limits thereof, join in, or aid or abet any Riot or Tumult there, or fhall, in any Vizard, * c - t0 be deeme<1 Mafk, or other Difguife whatfoever, knowingly and willingly there oppofe the Execution of any l~gal Procefs, Order or Warrant, or affault and abufe any Perfon or Perfons ferving or executing any fuch Procefs, Order or Warrant, or for having fo done; all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons, being lawfully convicted of any fuch Offence, fhsll be adjudged guilty of Felony, and fhall forfeit and fuffer as in Cafes of Felony, without Benefit of Clergy ; and all Perfons aiding, affifting or abetting, or knowingly har- concealers &c bouring or concealing any fuch difguifed Perfon or Perfons, being thereof convicted, fhall be adj udged to be tranfported. guilty of Felony, and fhall be tranfported to fome or-one of his Majefty's Colonies or Plantations in America, by fuch Ways, Means and Methods, and in fuch Manner, and for fuch Time, and under fuch Pains and Penalties, as Felons in other Cafes are by Law to be tranfported. IV. And be it further enadled by the Authority aforefaid, That from and after the tenth Day of Octo- ber * one thoufand feven hundred and twenty-three, all and every Perfon and Perfons, who fhall appre-, # hend and take any Perfon or Perfons, guilty of any of the Offences before mentioned, and profecute fuch the Record '" Perfon or Perfons until he or they be convicted, fhall have and receive, for every fuch Offender fo con- victed, the Sum of forty Pounds, to be paid by the Sheriff of the County of Surrey, without any Deduc- TheSumofio] tion or Fee for the fame, within one Month after fuch Conviclion and Demand thereof made, by tendring to be paid by a Certificate to the faid Sheriff, under the Hand or Hands of the Judge or Juftices before whom fuch Of- the sheriff on fender or Offenders fhall be convicted, certifying the Conviclion of fuch Offender or Offenders, and that Q°^ v '?' on of he or they were taken- by the Perfon or Perfons claiming the faid Reward ; and in cafe any Difpute fhall en ers * arife between the Perfons fo apprehending any of the faid Offenders, touching their Right and Title to the faid Reward, that then the faid Judge or Juftices, fo refpe£tively certifying as aforefaid, fhall in and by his and their faid Certificate, dirett and appoint the faid Reward to and amongft the Parties claiming Difputes touch- the fame, in fuch Shares and Proportions, as to the faid Judge or Juftices fhall feem juft and reafonable ; ing the Reward, and if it fhall happen any fuch Sheriff fhall die or be removed after fuch Conviclion and Demand made h ° w tobede;er- of the faid Reward (the fame not b:ing paid as aforefaid) that then the next fucceeding Sheriff of the faid mlned - County of Surrey fhall pay the fame, within one Month after Demand, and Certificate brought as afore- faid ; and if Default of Payment of the faid Sum or Sums of Money fhall happen to be made by any fuch On Death or Sheriff, the Sheriff making Default fhall forfeit to the Perfon and Perfons, to whom fuch Money fhall Removal oi She- be due as aforefaid, double the Sum or Sums of Money fuch Sheriff" ought to have paid, to be recovered riff his Succeffor with double Cofts of Suit by the Perfon or Perfons aforefaid, or his or their Executors or Admini- rtlal! P a y tl,eRe " ftrators, in any of his Majefty's Courts of Record at Wejlminjler, by Atftion of Debt, Bill, Plaint ' &c ' or Information, wherein no Eilbin, Privilege, Protectioh or Wager of Law fhall be allowed, nor more than one Imparlance. V. And be it further enacted, That in cafe any Perfon or Perfons fhall happen to be killed by any The Executors, fuch Offender or Offenders, endeavouring to apprehend, or in making Purfuit after him or them, that &c - ° f Perfons then the Executors or Adminiftrators or fuch Perfon or Perfons, -to whom the Right of Adminiftration of k'" ed j 5 / oflcr >- the Perfonal Eftate of each Perfon fo killed (hall belong (upon Certificate delivered under the Hands and ^thc'Iol?"" Seals of the Judge or Juftices of Affize for the County where the Fact was done, or the two next Juftices of the Peace, of fuch Perfon or Perfons being fo killed, which Certificate the faid Judge or Juftices, upon fufficient Proof before him or them made, is and are hereby required immediately to give without Fee or Rxward )