2. Offenders when apprehended to be brought before a Police Magistrate. 3. Act to be construed with recited Act. 4. Act may be amended or repealed. England as if the same had been originally issued or subsequently endorsed by a Justice of the Peace or Magistrate having jurisdiction in the place where the same shall be executed, and may be lawfully executed anywhere within England by the constable or constables to whom the same shall be directed, or who shall be appointed to execute the same, who shall severally have all the powers and privileges for the execution of such warrant as any constable duly appointed hath or may have within his constablewick. 5 And be it Enacted, That every person who shall be apprehended under any such warrant shall be brought with all convenient speed 10 before the Magistrate by whom such warrant shall have been issued, or some other Magistrate of the same Police Court, to be dealt with according to law; and that such Magistrate may cause the warrant of committal of such person to be drawn up according to the form given in the Schedule annexed to this Act, or to the like effect, 15 which shall be good and sufficient in law to warrant the persons to whom the same shall be directed to detain such person in custody, as directed in the said warrant, until delivered by due course of law. And be it Enacted, That this Act shall be construed with each of 20 the said Acts separately, and as if this Act had been enacted in each of the said Acts. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament. SCHEDULE SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS. WARRANT OF APPREHENSION. Metropolitan Police District, To all and each of the Constables of the Metropolitan Police Force. to wit. WHEREAS the Right honourable One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by warrant under his hand and seal, hath signified to me, that pursuant to the [Convention made between Her Majesty and the King of the French in the year One thousand eight hundred and Forty-three; or, the Treaty made between Her Majesty and the United States of America in the year One thousand eight hundred and Forty-two, as the case may be], for the apprehension of certain offenders, requisition hath been duly made to him for delivering up to justice A. B., late of who is charged with having committed the crime of [here specify the offence], within the jurisdiction of [his Majesty the King of the French, or the United States of America, as the case may be]: This is therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's name, forthwith to apprehend the said A. B., pursuant to an Act passed in the ninth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled [here insert the title of this Act], wherever he may be found in England, and bring him before me, or some other Magistrate sitting in this Court, to answer unto the said charge and to be further dealt with according to law; for which this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand and seal at one of the Police Courts in the of the Metropolis, this year of our Lord day of Metropolitan Police District, to wit. To A. B., one of the Constables of the Metropolitan Police Force, and to the Keeper of the BE it Remembered, That on the Lord A. B., late of day of at at in the of our year is brought before me, J. P., One of the Police Magistrates of the Metropolis, sitting at the Police Court in within the Metropolitan Police District, and is charged before me, for that he day of within the said A. B., on the the jurisdiction of [his Majesty the King of the French, or the United States of America, as the case may be], did [here state the offence]: And forasmuch as it hath been shown to me, upon such evidence as by law is sufficient to justify the committal to gaol of the said A. B., pursuant to an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of Queen VICTORIA, intituled [here insert the title of 6 & 7 Vict. c. 75, or 6 & 7 Vict., c. 76, as the case may require], that the said A. B. is guilty of the said offence: This is therefore to command you the said Constable in Her Majesty's name forthwith to convey and deliver the body of the said A. B. into the custody of the said Keeper of the ; and you the said Keeper to receive the said A.B. and him there safely to keep until he shall at into your custody in the same be thence delivered by due course of law; for which this shall be your warrant. ୪୪୪ 5 A BILL To abolish the Arrestment of Wages in Scotland. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] HERCAS a practice of arresting the Wages of the Preamble. Practitate fears arise of the Scotland, and such practice is contrary to the true spirit of the Law of Scotland, which exempts from process Wages, and all other alimentary funds: And whereas this practice is injurious to the habits of the Workpeople, subjects them to imposition, oppression and protracted distress, and exposes Masters to constant loss and inconvenience: And whereas a Report was made to his late most Excellent Majesty 10 WILLIAM the Fourth, dated May the second One thousand eight hundred and Thirty-four, that "Great evil exists in the manufacturing districts of Scotland from the Arrestment of Wages, which cuts off the means by which the Workman and his family are to be supported, and occasions Masters great trouble and inconvenience:" 15 And whereas it is expedient such practice should cease and determine; Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 20 and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the First day of October One thousand eight hundred and Forty-five, it shall not be lawful or competent to arrest the Wages of Labour, and that all actions after the said First day of October One thousand eight hundred and Forty-five against Masters in any of the Courts 25 of Law or Equity in Scotland, regarding Arrestment applicable to Wages, shall cease and determine. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during this present Session of Parliament. 1. Wages of Labour not to be subject to Arrest. 2. Act may be amended during present Session. |