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Presentment for compensation to representatives of persons murdered, and to persons maimed, in certain cases.
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106. If it shall appear that any person, having given information or evidence against any person or persons charged with any offence against the public peace, shall have been murdered or maimed previous to the trial of the person or persons accused by such information or evidence, or of any of them, or on account of any such evidence given, or that any magistrate or other peace officer shall be murdered or maimed on account of his exertions as such magistrate or peace officer to bring disturbers of the public peace to justice, it shall and may be lawful to and for the grand jury of the county within which such murder or maiming shall have been committed respectively, to present such sum or sums of money as they shall think just and reasonable to be paid to the personal representative of such witness, magistrate, or peace officer so murdered, or to such witness, magistrate, or peace officer so maimed, having regard to the rank, degree, situation, and circumstances of such witness, magistrate, or peace officer; such money to be raised off the county at large or the barony in which such murder or maiming shall respectively have been perpetrated, at the discretion of such grand jury.
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