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2 justices shall summon persons suspected guilty of such rising or assembling, or so intending,
and bind to appear and answer next assizes,
and to good behaviour,
and imprisonment on refusal.
In force no longer than publick necessity: continued to 24 June 1778, to 24 June 1780, 17 & 18 G. 3. c. 36. s. 8. with amendments, to 24 June 1783, &c. by 19 & 20 G. 3. c. 14. s. 5. [Continued 21 & 22Geo. 3. c.40. 30 Geo. 3. c. 45. 34 Geo. 3. c. 23. Perpetual 40 Geo. 3. c. 96, see also 10 Geo. 4. c. 34. s. 47. and 1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 44.]
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XXVIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that any two or more justices of the peace, having reasonable cause to suspect any person or persons guilty of any such unlawful rising, assembling, or appearing as aforesaid, or of having been in any unlawful assembly to the terror of his Majesty's subjects as aforesaid, or of intending so to be, may summon, and they are hereby required to summon, before them the person or persons so suspected to be guilty, and bind him, her, or them over by his, her, or their own recognizance to appear at the next ensuing assizes, or general gaol delivery to be held for the county, in which he, she, or they shall reside, to answer such matters as he, she, or they shall then be charged with, and to be of good behaviour in the mean time; and in case of refusal to appear to enter into security as aforesaid, that then such justices of the peace shall have power by warrant under their hands and seals to commit every such person or persons to the common gaol of the county, there to remain until such person or persons shall submit to appear and enter into such security as aforesaid, or until discharged by due course of law.
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