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Proceedings where persons are arrested.
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34. Any justice or justices of the peace, before whom any person liable to be arrested and detained or who shall be arrested and detained for any offence under the provisions of this Act authorizing such arrest and detention shall be carried, may and shall, on the confession of such person of such offence, or on proof thereof upon the oath or oaths of one or more credible witness or witnesses, convict such person of any such offence; and every such person so convicted shall immediately upon conviction pay into the hands of the officer or person authorized to receive the same the penalty adjudged against him, or the amount to which the same shall be mitigated; or, in default thereof, the said justice or justices shall, by warrant under his or their hand or hands, commit the person so convicted to any gaol or prison of the county or place, there to remain for such period as shall be specified in such warrant according to the provisions of this Act, unless such penalty shall be sooner paid.
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