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Persons committed for being accessary before the fact to; petty treason, felony, or murder, &c. not intitled to benefit of this act.
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XV. And because many times persons charged with petty treason, felony, or murder, or as accessaries thereunto, are committed upon suspicion only, whereupon they are bailable or not according as the circumstances, making out that suspicion, are more or less weighty, which are best known to the justices of the peace who committed the persons, and have the examinations before them, or to other justices of the peace of the county; therefore be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where any person shall appear to be committed by any judge or justice of the peace, and charged as accessary before the fact, to any petty treason, felony, or murder, or upon suspicion thereof, or with suspicion of petty treason, felony, or murder, which petty treason, felony or murder shall be plainly and specially expressed in the warrant of commitment, that such person shall not be removed or bailed by virtue of this act, or in any other manner than they might have been before the making of this act.
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