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Cap.74. GEORGII III. REGIS. or any Person shall be assisting therein 3
very such Person shall be guilty of Felony.
permit such Offender to escape; or if any Person whatsoever shall, by supplying Arms, Tools, or Instruments of Disguise, or otherwise, be in any Manner aiding and assisting to any such Offender in any Escape, or in any Attempt to make an Escape, though no Escape be actually made, or shall attempt to rescue any such Offender, or be aiding and assisting in any such Attempt, though no Rescue be actually made, every such Person so permitting , attempting, aiding, or assisting, shall be guilty of Felony; and if any Person having such Custody,
or being so employed by the Person having such Custody as aforesaid, shall negligently permit any such Offender to escape, such Person so permitting shall be guilty of a Misdemeanour; and being lawfully convicted of the same, shall be liable to fine or Imprisonment, or to both, at the Discretion of the Court.
67. Method of Trial and Conviction of Offenders for making Escape, or Breaking Prison; and of Persons for assisting therein.And, to the Intent that the Prosecutions for Escapes, Breaches of Prison, and Rescues, may be carried on with as little Trouble and Expence as is possible; be it further enacted, That any Offender escaping, breaking Prison, or being rescued, in Manner aforesaid, may and shall be tried before the Justices of Dyer and Terminer, or Gaol Delivery, or at the Great Sessions for the Coun
ty where he or she shall be apprehended and retaken; and in case of any Prosecution for any such Escape, Attempt to escape, Breach of Prison, or Rescue, either against the Offender escaping, or attempting to escape, or having broke Prison, or been rescued, or against any other Per
son or Persons concerned therein, or aiding, abetting, or assisting the same, a Copy, properly attested, of the Certificate herein-before directed to be given to the She
riff or Gaoler by the Clerk of the Assize, or other Clerk for the Time being of the Court in which such Offender shall be convicted, and by such Sheriff or Gaoler to be delivered, together with the Offender, to such Governor or Superintendant as aforesaid, and by such Governor or Superintendant to be transmitted to the Clerk of the Peace, to be filed with the Records of the Sessions, shall, after Proof made that the Person then in Question before the Court is the same that was delivered with such Certificate, be sufficient Evidence to the Court and Jury,
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