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     ROYAL GAZETTE. 
     
    
     IAWS 0F PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
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     An Act to revise, continue and amend 
     
     the Act relating to the Limits and 
     
     Rules of Jails in this island. 
     
    
     [Passed May 17, 1567. 
     
     HEREAS the Act ofthe Twelfth Victoria, 
     
     Chapter one, intituled “ An Act relating 
     
     to the Limits and Rules of Jails in this Island,” 
     
     expired at the end of the last Session of the 
     
    
     General Assembly, contrary to the expressed 
     
    
     intention of the said General Assembly, in con- 
     
    
     sequence whereof parties conﬁned in Jail, under 
     
     process of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 
     
     obtained the limits of the several Jails in this 
     
    
     Island, the Sheriffs of the respective Counties 
     
    
     in the said Island not being aware that the 
     
    
     Sand Act had expired: For remedy whereof, 
     
    
     Llle it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, 
     
    
     Council and Assembly, as follows :— 
     
    
     I. That the said recited Act of the Twelfth 
     
     Victoria, Chapter one, intituled “An Act re- 
     
     lating to the Limits and Rules of Jails in this 
     
     Island,” and every clause, matter and thing 
     
     therein contained, shall be and the same is here- 
     
     by revivedmfrom the last day of the last Session 
     
     of the said General Assembly, and shall be and 
     
     continue in force for the period hereinafter 
     
     mentioned in all its force and effect, save and 
     
     except as hereby amended, as if the said recited 
     
     Act, and every clause, matter and thing therein 
     
     contained had been re-enacted by this Act, 
     
     and as if the same had never expired. 
     
    
     II. All Bonds entered into by any person or 
     
     persons whomsoever, to any Sheriff of this 
     
     Island, under or in supposed relation to the 
     
     provisions of the said recited Act, either before 
     
     or since the expiration of the same as aforesaid, 
     
     shall be as good, valid and effectual, and as fully 
     
     binding on the parties thereto, as if the said 
     
     recited Act had never expired. 
     
    
     III. No action for an escape or any other 
     
     suit or proceeding, whether brought or com- 
     
     menced before or after the passing of this Act, 
     
     shall be maintained or maintainable in any 
     
     Court in this Island, against any person now 
     
     being or heretofore having been Sheriff for any 
     
     County in this Island, for or by reason of such 
     
     Sheriff having, before or since the expiration of 
     
    
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     the said recited Act, permitted any person or 
     
     persons whomsoever conﬁned as in the said re- 
     
     cited Act mentioned to have his liberty, within 
     
     the Limits and Rule of the several Jails in 
     
     manner or form, and according to the regulations 
     
     in the said recited Act mentioned and describ- 
     
     ed: Provided always, nevertheless, that such 
     
     Sheriff, and the person or persons so obtaining 
     
     such limits, and his or their sureties, have corn- 
     
     plied with the provisions of the said recited 
     
     Act. 
     
    
     IV. In case any action shall be commenced 
     
     against any person now holding or having 
     
     heretofore held the Ofﬁce of Sheriff in this 
     
     Island, for any thing done by him as if in pur- 
     
     suance, and according to the true intent and 
     
     meaning of the said recited Act, since the ex— 
     
     piration thereof, he may plead the general issue, 
     
     and give this Act and the matter necessary to 
     
     his defence in evidence under that plea. 
     
    
     V. And whereas doubts have arisen as to 
     
     the true construction of the condition of the 
     
     Bond directed to be given by the said recited 
     
     and hereby revived Act, and it is expedient 
     
     that such doubts should be removed: Be it, 
     
     therefore, further enacted by the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor, Council and Assembly, as follows :— 
     
     When any person who has already entered into, 
     
     or shall hereafter enter into any Bond or Bonds, 
     
     as in the said recited and hereby revived Act 
     
     mentioned and prescribed, shall at any time, or 
     
     for any space of time, go or be at large or 
     
     escape from the boundaries in the said recite-d 
     
     Act set forth and descrided as the Jail Limits, 
     
     for any or either of the several County Jails in 
     
     this Island, no plea or evidence of a return 
     
     within such limits before or after action brought, 
     
     shall be admitted as a defence to any such 
     
     action against himself and sureties, or any 
     
     or either of them, on the said Bond, it being the 
     
     intention of this Act that in any case, where a 
     
     defendant, who shall have given Bond as pres- 
     
     cribed by the said recited Act as aforesaid, shall 
     
     afterwards go beyond the limits referred to in 
     
     such Bond, for any space of time, or for any dis- 
     
     tance whatsoever, such defendant, as well as his 
     
     sureties, shall be liable absolutely for a breach of 
     
     the said Bond, anything in the said recited and 
     
    
     hereby revived Act to the contrary notwith- 
     
     standing. 
     
    
     VI. The above recited Act of the Twelfth 
     
    
     tVictoria, Chapter one, as amended by this Act,