By § 2., no sheriff, undersheriff, bailiff, serjeant at mace, or other
officer or person, shall at any time or times hereafter take or receive
any other or greater sum or sums for one or more nights lodging, or for a
days diet, or other expences of any person or persons under arrest, on
any writ, action, attachment, or process other than what shall be allowed
as reasonable in such cases by some order or orders made by the justices
of the peace at some general or quarter-sessions which shall be held for
the county, riding, division, city, town or place where such arrest or
taking shall be.
[Sidenote: Printed copy of clauses.]
By § 3., every sheriff, undersheriff, and bailiff of any liberty, &c.
shall deliver a printed copy of the several clauses contained in this act
relating to bailiffs, serjeants and other officers and persons who shall
be employed under them respectively to execute any writ, process or
attachment, or who shall arrest any person on any action which shall be
entered or otherwise within their respective sheriffwicks or
jurisdictions, to every such bailiff, serjeant, officer, and other
person, and shall make it part of the condition of every security or bond
which shall be given or made to any such sheriff or undersheriff, or
bailiff of any liberty, by any bailiff, serjeant at mace, or other
officer or person who shall be employed or intrusted to execute any such
writ or process as aforesaid under him, them or any of them, that every
such bailiff, serjeant at mace, or officer and other person respectively,
shall and will shew and deliver a copy of the said clauses to every
person he shall arrest by virtue of any process, action, writ or
attachment, or under any warrant made out thereon, and carry or go with
to any public or other house where any liquor shall be sold, and also
shall and will permit every such person who shall be so arrested, or any
friend of him or her to read over the same clauses, before any liquor,
meat or victuals shall be at any such public or other house called for or
brought to any such person who shall be so under arrest there; and in
case any bailiff, serjeant at mace, or other officer or person shall in
any respect offend in the premises, every such offence besides the breach
of the condition of every such security bond, shall be accounted and
deemed a misdemeanor in the execution of the process or action on which
any such person was arrested, and shall be punishable as such by virtue
of this act.
[Sidenote: Privilege of persons arrested in sending for necessaries.]
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