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Magistrates and peace officers, commanding assistance of all of age and ability, may apprehend, disperse, and resist all concerned,
indemnified on killing or hurting.
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VI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for every justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, mayor, bailiff, or other peace officer, within the limits of his or their respective jurisdictions, taking with them the necessary assistance, (and they are hereby empowered and authorized to command all his Majesty's subjects of age and ability to be assisting therein) to apprehend, disperse, resist, and oppose all persons concerned in any of the unlawful acts before mentioned in this act; and if any person or persons shall happen to be killed, maimed, or hurt, in the apprehending, dispersing, resisting, or opposing any such offenders, then every such justice of the peace, sheriff, or other peace officer, and all and singular persons being aiding and assisting to them or any of them, shall be freed, discharged, and indemnified as well against the king's Majesty, his heirs, and successors, as against all and every other person or persons, or for or concerning the killing, maiming, or hurting any such persons.
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