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Disposal of the informations, &c. in case of indictable offences.
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19. The manner in which informations, examinations, statements of accused parties, and recognizances, in proceedings for indictable offences, shall be disposed of, when taken, shall be subject to the following provisions:
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1. Every such information, examination, statement, and recognizance sworn, taken, or acknowledged by or before any justice not sitting in petty sessions, shall, with all convenient despatch, and at the latest before the petty sessions then next ensuing for the district where the case may have arisen, be transmitted by him to the justices at such petty sessions, except in cases where the person accused shall not have been committed or shall not be amenable, and such justice shall deem it expedient to retain such documents for a longer period:
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2. The justices at petty sessions shall transmit or cause the clerk of petty sessions to transmit every such information, examination, statement, or recognizance so received from any justice out of petty sessions, or which shall be sworn, taken, or acknowledged at petty sessions, to the clerk of the Crown of the county, where the same shall relate to any matter to be tried at the assizes, or to the clerk of the peace, where same shall relate to any matter to be tried at quarter sessions, with all convenient despatch, or at latest within seven days from the holding of each petty sessions where the party shall have been committed or shall be amenable, (or at least seven days before the assizes or quarter sessions, as the case may be, where the party shall not have been committed or shall not be amenable,) except in cases of indictable offences where the party shall not have been committed or shall not be amenable, and the justices shall deem it expedient to retain such documents for a longer period:
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3. In every case where any such documents, whether taken in or out of petty sessions, shall be so retained by any justice for a longer period than is herein-before provided, he shall endorse on the same his reason for such retention:
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And in all cases where the justices shall deliver to the clerk of petty sessions any such information, examination, statement, or recognizance, to transmit to the clerks of the Crown or peace, the said clerk of petty sessions shall forthwith make an abstract or schedule of the same, specifying the dates of the same, and the dates when the same were received by him; and (when there shall be no more convenient or safe mode of transmission, and he shall be so directed by the justices) he shall transmit such schedule, together with the informations, examinations, and recognizances therein referred to, to the said clerks of the Crown or peace, as the case may be, through the General Post Office, prepaying the same, and obtaining a receipt from the postmaster where the same shall be posted, specifying the date of such posting, and for which the postmaster by whom the same shall be delivered shall in like manner obtain a like receipt from the clerk of the peace, or clerk of the Crown, as the case may be, and which receipts such postmaster and such clerk of the Crown or peace are hereby required to give; and the grand jury of the county shall at the assizes present to be paid to such clerks of petty sessions the amount of the postage prepaid by them for the transmission of such documents as aforesaid; and the sums so presented shall be levied as other monies presented by such grand jury.
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