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No person charged with high treason shall be admitted an approver without consent of attorney general or solicitor general.
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35. And . . . that no person charged with or accused of having committed any high treasón within the said police district shall be admitted to give evidence for the crown against his or her accomplice or accomplices without the previous consent in writing of his Majesty’s attorney general, or, in his absence or in the vacancy of the said office, of his Majesty’s solicitor general; and any justice offending herein shall forfeit the sum of one hundred pounds, to be recovered in like manner.
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