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Warrants so backed to be valid for execution.
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31. Whenever any warrant, addressed either to the constabulary or any other person, shall be so indorsed by the said inspector general or by either of the said deputies inspector general or by any justice or other such officer as aforesaid, it shall be a sufficient authority to the person bringing such warrant, and also to all constables or peace officers of the county or place where such warrant shall be so indorsed, to execute the same by arrest, committal, or levy, as the case may be, within the jurisdiction of the said justice or officer, and, in case of a warrant to arrest any person, to convey him when arrested before the justice or officer by whom the same was issued, or before some other justice or officer of the same county or place, to be dealt with according to law: Provided always, that if the prosecutor, or any of the witnesses for the prosecution, in cases of indictable offences, shall then be in the county or place where any person shall have been arrested under any warrant so backed as aforesaid, the constable or other person who shall have arrested such person shall, if so directed by the justice who shall have indorsed the warrant, bring the person so arrested before him or some other justice of the same county or place, who may thereupon take the examinations of such prosecutor or witnesses, and proceed in every respect as herein-before directed with respect to persons charged before a justice with an indictable crime or offence alleged to have been committed in any other county or place than that in which such person shall have been arrested.
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