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Sheriffs shall return to justices of assize, &c. a certificate of the names of all persons in custody for fines or recognizances.
Gaoler shall verify such certificate on oath.
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18. Every sheriff shall at every assizes within their respective jurisdictions, return to the justices of assize a certificate containing the names of the several persons in their custody respectively under any process issued for or by reason of any fine or fines imposed or any recognizance or recognizances forfeited at any antecedent court of assize, within such county, county of a city, or county of a town, and who were in their custody at any time during the then next preceding assizes for such county, county of a city, or county of a town, or have been since committed to them; and shall also at every general sessions of the peace return to the court a like certificate of persons committed under any process issued for or by reason of any fine or fines imposed or recognizance or recognizances forfeited at any antecedent sessions of the peace for such county, county of a city, or county of a town, and who were in their custody at any time during the next preceding sessions of the peace, or at any time since; and every such certificate as aforesaid shall set forth the times when such persons were respectively committed to prison, and the sums for which they were so in custody, and whether any and which of such persons then remain in their custody, and, if so, how long such persons respectively have been in actual confinement for such cause, and, if not then in custody, then by what authority and at what time they were respectively discharged; and the gaoler of every such sheriff shall verify the said certificate by affidavit, to be sworn before such justices of assize, or, in case of a return to the sessions, before any two justices of the peace (which any two justices of the peace are hereby authorized and required in such case to administer); and such certificate and affidavit shall be lodged with the clerk of the crown of the county, or, if at sessions, with the clerk of the peace, who shall annex the same to the estreats of all forfeited recognizances returned by them respectively pursuant to this Act.
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