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Mayor, &c. shall summon offenders, and issue warrants against those who when summoned do not attend.
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29. And, for the more effectually enforcing and carrying into execution the provisions of this Act, be it further enacted, that on complaint or information in writing before the mayor of any city, chief magistrate of any town corporate, or justice of the peace for the county in which there is such place of export or market town as aforesaid (as the case may be), of any offence having been committed against this Act, every such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid (as the case may be) is hereby authorized and required to summon the person or persons charged with being an offender or offenders against this Act to appear before him at a certain time and place to be specified, and which time for such appearance shall not be less than forty-eight hours after the issuing of such summons; such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice, as the case may be, proof on oath (if any person or persons so summoned shall not appear according to such summons) having been first made (which oath the said mayor, chief magistrate, or justice is hereby empowered and required to administer) of the service of such summons upon such person or persons, by delivering the same to him, her, or them personally, or leaving the same at his, her, or their usual place of abode or places of residence forty-eight hours at least before the time specified in such summons for his, her, or their appearance, shall make and issue his warrant or warrants for apprehending the person or persons so summoned and not appearing as aforesaid, and for bringing him or them before such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be; and it also shall be lawful for such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be, in case such person or persons cannot be apprehended and brought before him, or, upon his or their appearing upon such summons, such mayor, chief magistrate, or justice aforesaid, as the case may be, is hereby authorized and required, to make enquiry touching the matters complained of, and to proceed thereon according to the several provisions of this Act.
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