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THE FUGITIVE OFFENDERS ACT.

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23. Where any part of this Act provides for the place of trial of a Act of 1881. person accused of an offence, that offence shall, for all purposes of and

Supplement- incidental to the apprehension, trial and punishment of such person, as to trial of al provision and of and incidental to any proceedings and matters preliminary, in-person in cidental to, or consequential thereon, and of and incidental to the jurisdiction of any Court, constable or officer with reference to such offence, and to any person accused of such offence, be deemed to have been committed in any place in which the person accused of the offence can be tried for it; and such person may be punished in accordance with 37 & 38 Vict. the Courts (Colonial) Jurisdiction Act, 1874.

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c. 27.

search war- rant.

24. Where a warrant for the apprehension of a person accused of an Issue of offence has been endorsed in pursuance of any part of this Act in part of Her Majesty's Dominions, or where any part of the Act provides for the place of trial of a person accused of an offence, every Court and Magistrate of the part in which the warrant is endorsed or the person accused of the offence can be tried shall have the same power of issuing a warrant to search for any property alleged to be stolen or to be other- wise unlawfully taken or obtained by such person, or otherwise to be the subject of such offence, as the Court or Magistrate would have if the pro- perty had been stolen or otherwise unlawfully taken or obtained, or the offence had been committed wholly within the jurisdiction of such Court or Magistrate.

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25. When a person is in legal custody in a British possession either Removal of in pursuance of this Act or otherwise and such person is required to be prisoner by removed in custody to another place in or belonging to the same British place to an- possession, such person, if removed by sea in a vessel belonging to Her other. Majesty or any of Her Majesty's subjects, shall be deemed to continue in legal custody until he reaches the place to which he is required to be removed; and the provisions of this Act with respect to the retaking of a prisoner who has escaped, and with respect to the trial and punishment of a person guilty of the offence of escaping or attempting to escape, or aiding or attempting to aid a prisoner to escape shall apply to the case of a prisoner escaping while being lawfully removed as aforesaid, in like manner as if he were being removed in pursuance of a warrant en- dorsed in pursuance of this Act.

PART IV. SUPPLEMENTAL.

Warrants and Escape.

26. An endorsement of a warrant in pursuance of this Act shall be Endorsement signed by the authority endorsing the same, and shall authorise all or any of warrant. of the persons named in the endorsement, and of the persons to whom the warrant was originally directed, and also every constable, to execute