Offenders Illegally at large Act 1846 No 1a (NSW)

No. XXXI.

An Act to continue for two years " 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." [11th June, 1846.]

His late Majesty King William the Fourth intituled " An Act to WHEREAS an Act was passed by the Governor and Legislative Council of New South Wales in the fifth year of the reign of

"facilitate the apprehension of transported Felons and Offenders " be Robbers''1 which said Act was continued by certain other Acts of " illegally at large and of persons found with Arms and suspected to

the said Governor and Council passed respectively in the sixth year of the reign of His said Majesty and in the first third fifth and eighth years of the reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria with certain amendments therein contained And whereas the said first recited Act will expire on the thirty-first day of August next and it is expedient to continue the same for a further limited period as amended in the manner hereinafter mentioned Be it therefore enacted by His Excel­ lency the Governor of New South Wales with the advice and consent 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 from and after the said thirty-first day of August next until the thirty-first day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight except so much thereof as relates to the time of passing and execution of any sentence of death as is therein mentioned Provided always that nothing in the said first recited Act contained shall be deemed to authorize any Justice of the Peace to cause any person to be removed to Sydney to be examined unless such person shall have been apprehended within the Police District of Sydney or such information shall have been given on oath by some credible witness before such Justice as to satisfy him that there are strong grounds for suspecting such person to be a transported felon or offender illegally at large Provided also that no female shall be so removed to Sydney anything in this Act or the said recited Act to the contrary notwithstanding.