Textile Manufactures (Ireland) Act, 1840

Adjournment of time for trial allowed on prisoner finding bail.

9. It shall be competent for the party accused, in all prosecutions brought under authority of this Act, to move for and obtain an adjournment of the time fixed for trial, for such a reasonable time as may appear to the court to be necessary for the party accused to produce the person duly entitled to sell, dispose of, or transmit the said property, of whom he bought or received the same, or evidence respecting the same; but the party accused and requesting such adjournment shall be detained in custody or committed to prison, unless he enter into such bail, with two solvent and sufficient sureties, as shall be required for his appearance before said court at such time and place as shall be appointed.