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Persons returning from transportation punishable as felons, may be tried where found, &c.
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16. If any person heretofore sentenced or ordered, or here-after to be sentenced or ordered, to be transported, or who shall have agreed or shall agree to transport or banish himself or herself on certain conditions, either for life or for any number of years, shall be afterwards at large within any part of the United Kingdom, without some lawful cause, before the expiration of his or her term of transportation or banishment, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon [Rep. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 28. s. 12]; and every such offender may be tried, either in the county or place where such offender shall be found at large, or in the county or place at which such sentence or order of transportation or banishment was passed or made.
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