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V. And be it enacted, That in Cases where a Justice of the Peace for any County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place shall be also Justice of the Peace for a County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place next adjoining thereto or surrounded thereby, it shall and may be lawful for such Justice of the Peace to act as such Justice for the one County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place whilst he is residing or happens to be in the other such County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place, in all Matters and Things herein-before or hereafter in this Act mentioned; and that all such Acts of such Justice, and the Acts of any Constable or other Officer in obedience thereto, shall be as valid, good, and effectual in the Law to all Intents and Purposes as if such Justice at the Time he shall so act as aforesaid were in the County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or other Place for which he shall so act; and all Constables and other Officers for the County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place for which such Justice shall so act as aforesaid are hereby authorized and required to obey the Warrants, Orders, Directions, Act or Acts of such Justice which in that Behalf shall be granted, given, or done, and to do and perform their several Offices and Duties in respect thereof, under the Pains and Penalties to which any Constable or other Officer may be liable for a Neglect of Duty; and any such Constable or other Peace Officer, or any other Person, apprehending or taking into Custody any Person offending against Law, and whom he lawfully may and ought to apprehend or take into Custody, by virtue of his Office or otherwise, in any such County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place, may lawfully take and convey such Person so apprehended and taken as aforesaid to and before any such Justice of the Peace for such County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place whilst such Justice shall be in such adjoining County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place as aforesaid, and the said Constables and other Peace Officers, and all such other Persons as aforesaid, are hereby authorized and required in all such Cases so to act in all things as if the said Justice of the Peace were within the said County, Division, Liberty, City, Borough, or Place for which he shall so act.
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