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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
Volume 194, Page 490   View pdf image (33K)
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490 1 & 2 P. & M. CAP 13, BAIL AND DEPOSITIONS.
Justices, or at least by two of them, whereof one to be of the
Quorum; (2) since the making of which Estatute, one Jus-
tice of the Peace in the Name of himself and one other of the
Justices his Companion, not making the said Justice Party nor
privy unto the Case wherefore the Prisoner should be bailed,.
hath oftentimes by sinister Labour and Means, set at large the
greatest and notablest Offenders, such as be not replevisable
by the Laws of this Realm; (3) and yet the rather to hide
their Affections in that Behalf, have signified the Cause of their
Apprehension to be but only for Suspicion of Felony, whereby
the said Offenders have escaped unpunished, and do daily, to
the high Displeasure of Almighty God, the great Peril of the
King and Queen's true Subjects, and Encouragement of all
Thieves and Evil-doers:
II. For Reformation whereof, Be it ordained and enacted
by the King and Queen's Majesties, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assem-
bled, and by Authority of the same, That from and after the
370* first Day of April next coming, no Justice or Justices
of Peace shall let to Bail or Main prise any such Person or Per-
sons, which for any Offence or Offences by them or any of them
committed, be declared not to be replevised or bailed, or be
forbidden to be replevised or bailed by the Statute of West-
minster primer, made in the Parliament holden in the third
Year of the Reign of King Edward the First.
III. And furthermore, That any Person or Persons arrested
for Manslaughter or Felony, or Suspicion of Manslaughter or
Felony, being Bailable by the Law, shall not after the said
first Day of April, be let to Bail or Main prise by any Justices
of Peace, if it be not in open Sessions, except it be by two Jus-
tices of Peace at the least, whereof one to be of the Quorum,
and the same Justices to be present together at the Time of the
said Bailment or Mainprise; (2) which Bailment or Mainprise
they shall certify in Writing subscribed or signed with their
own Hands, at the General Gaol-delivery to be holden within
the County where the said Person or Persons shall be arrested
or suspected.
IV. And that the said Justices, or one of them, being of the
Quorum, when any such Prisoner is brought before them for
any Man-slaughter or Felony, before any Bailment or Main-

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