Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1819-06-12

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co8nizances thus required to be taken
by him to said court, which shall direct
the parties bound to be called, and if
they or any of them fail to appear, their
default shall be entered and there recor-
ded, and the recognizances shall be pro-
secuted to effect. fhoweyer, the party
bound shall appear, the said court shall
hear the evidence and may discharge or
continue the recognizance as shall APP
pear to be consistent with law.
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That
it shall be lawful for any justice of the
peace, upon oath being made before
him, that any person hath committed, or
that there are Just grounds to suspect
that he or she hath committed any cri-
rninal offence within his county, to IS
sue his warrant to arrest the person SO
charged and to inquire into said charge
and commit the person SO charged TO
jail, or bail, or discharge him, according
to the proof that may be adduced and to
the law arising thereupon; Provided
hozte0er, That said justices shall have
no power to admit to bail or mainpri2e,
any person or persons charged with trea-
son, murder, manslaughter, sodomy,
rape, arson, burglary, robbery, forgery,
or suspicion thereof, or with any crime
punishable with death, or burning in the
hand or elsewhere. And III all cases
where the said justices shall admit 10
bail or maipprize, they shall recognize
the party bound, to appear Oh the first
day OF the next succeeding session OF the
circuit court in the county in which the
transaction may happen, there TO remain
until discharged by said court, and in all
cases where the justices of the peace
shall either commit the person or per-
SONS charged to Jail, or admit him or her
to bail or mainprize, the said justices
shall recognize the witnesses to appear
at tie time aforesaid, and at the court
aforesaid to give testimony in the case
whenever thereto required.
Sec. IS. Be it further enacted, That
in case any person against whom war;
rant shall be issued by any justice or JUS
tees of the peace Of any county Of this
state for any offence therein committed
or done, shall escape, SO into, reside or
be in any other county out of the juris-
diction Of the justice or justices granting
such warrant as aforesaid, it shall and
may he lawful for, and it is terehy de-
clared to be the dusy Of airy justice or
justices Of the peace ofthe county, where
such person shall escape, go into, reside
or be, upon proof being made upon oath
or affirmation of the hand writing of the
Justice or justices granting such warrant,
to endorse his or their names on such
warrant, which shall be sufficient au-
ghority to the person or persons bringing
such warrant and to all other persons, TO
whom such warrant was originally di-
rectcd, to execute such warrant IN such
other county out of the jurisdiction Of
the Justice or justices granting such war
rant as aforesaid, and to apprehend and
carry such offender before the Justice or
justices who endorsed such warrant, or
some other justice or justices of such
other county where such warrant was
endorsed, and in case the offence for
which the offender shall be apprchcnded
as aforesaid shall be bailabIe in law by a
Justice of the peace, and such offender
shall be ready and willing to give bail for
his appearance at the next succeeding
session Of the circuit court to be holden
for the county in which the offence was
committed, such justice or justices of
the peace of such other county, before
whom such offender shall be brought,
shall and may take bail of such offend
er for his or her appearance at the next
succeeding session Of the circuit court
to be held in and for the county where
such offence was committed, in the same
manner as the justices Of the peace Of the
proper county might have done, and the
justices OF the peace Of such other coun-
ty so taking bail as aforesaid shall deliv-
er the recognizance Of bail, and ali other
proceedings relating to said offender and
offence, before him had, to the constable
OF other person or persons so apprehend-
ing said offender as aforesaid, who is and
are hereby required to receive and de-
liver over as soon as practicable, such
recognizance, and other proceedings to
the clerk Of the circuit court in the coun-
ty where the offender may be required
to appear by virtue Of such recognizance;
and such recognizance and other pro-
ceedings shall be as good and etfectual
in law, to all intents and purposes, and Of
the force and validity as il the same had
been entered into, taken and acknowledge
ed, before a justice or justices of the
peace, in and for the proper county where
the offence was committed. And the same