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Justices may order persons arrested to be detained.
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35. And whereas it is expedient that time should be allowed to prepare complaints, convictions, and warrants of commitment: Be it further enacted, that where any person shall be arrested and detained by any officer or officers of excise for any offence under any of the provisions of this Act authorizing such arrest and detention, and shall be taken and carried before any justice or justices of the peace, if it shall appear to such justice or justices that there is reasonable cause to detain such person, such justice or justices may order such person or persons to be detained a reasonable time, and at the expiration of such time such justice or justices may proceed to hear and finally determine the matter, or to commit such person to prison.
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