Offenders at Large Act 1838 No 2a (NSW)

No. II.

An Act further to continue for a limited time an

Act intituled " An Act to facilitate the appre-

" hension	of transported	Felons	and,	Offenders
" illegally	at large	and of Persons	found	with

" Arms and suspected to be Robbers." [13th

June, 1838.]

WHEKEAS an Act of the Governor and Council of New South Wales was passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late

Majesty King William the Eourth intituled " An Act to facilitate the
" apprehension of transported Felons and Offenders illegally at large
" and of Persons found with Arms and suspected to be Hobbers" which said Act was by a certain other Act of the said Governor and Council passed in the sixth year of the reign of His said late Majesty intituled
" An Act to continue for a limited time an Act intituled ' An Act to
" 'facilitate the apprehension of transported Felons and Offenders
" ' illegally at large and of Persons found with Arms and suspected to
" ' be Robbers' " continued until the thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight and it is expedient further to continue the said first recited Act in manner and to the extent herein­ after provided Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof That the said first recited Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His said late Majesty shall be and the same is hereby continued in force except as to so much of the said Act as relates to the time of passing and execution of any sentence of death as in the said Act is mentioned from and after the said thirty-first day of August next until the thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and

forty.