By _32 G. 2. c. 28._ § 1., no sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff, serjeant at mace, or other officer or minister whatsoever, shall convey or carry, or cause to be conveyed or carried any person or persons by him or them arrested, or being in his or their custody by virtue or colour of any action, writ, process or attachment to any tavern, alehouse or other public victualling or drinking house, or to the private house of any such officer or minister, or of any tenant or relation of his, without the free and voluntary consent of the person or persons so arrested or in custody; nor charge any such person or persons with any sum of money for any wine, beer, ale, victuals, tobacco or any other liquor or things whatsoever, save what he, she or they shall call for, of his, her or their own free accord; nor shall cause or procure him, her or them to call or pay for any such liquor or things, except what he, she or they shall particularly and freely ask for; nor shall demand, take or receive, or cause to be demanded, taken or received directly or indirectly, any other or greater sum or sums of money than is or shall be by law allowed to be taken or demanded for any arrest or taking, or for detaining or waiting till the person or persons so arrested or in custody shall have given an appearance or bail, as the case shall require, or agreed with the person or persons at whose suit or prosecution he, she or they shall be taken or arrested, or until he, she or they shall be sent to the proper gaol belonging to the county, riding, division, city, town or place where such arrest or taking shall be; nor shall exact or take any reward, gratuity or money for keeping the person or persons so arrested or in custody out of the gaol or prison; nor shall carry any such person to any gaol or prison within four and twenty hours from the time of such arrest, unless such person or persons so arrested shall refuse to be carried to some safe and convenient dwelling-house of his, her or their own nomination or appointment within a city, borough, corporation or market-town, in case such person or persons shall be there arrested; or within three miles from the place where such arrest shall be made, if the same shall be not the house of the person arrested, and be within the county, riding, division or liberty in which the person under arrest was arrested; and then and in any such case, it shall be lawful to and for any such sheriff or other officer or minister to convey or carry the person or persons so arrested and refusing to be carried to such safe and convenient dwelling-house as aforesaid, to such gaol or prison as he, she or they may be sent to by virtue of the action, writ or process against him, her or them. [Sidenote: Expences of persons arrested.]