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Persons obstructing the Execution of this Act to be committed until duly discharged.
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LXXVI. If any Person or Persons whatsoever shall assault, molest, resist, or obstruct the said Commissioners, Divisional Justices, or any of them, or any Person acting under the Authority of them or any of them, in the Execution of his or their Duty under this Act, it shall and may be lawful for such Commissioners, Divisional Justice or Justices, or Persons so acting under his or their Authority, and for all and every Person or Persons acting in his or their Aid and Assistance, to arrest all and every Person or Persons so offending, and him, her, or them to convey before any One of the said Divisional Justices, or, if apprehended in the Night-time, to lodge him, her, or them in the Station House or other Place for safe Custody until the Morning, and then to carry and convey such Person or Persons before any One or more of the said Divisional Justices; and such Justice or Justices shall and may, if upon due Examination he or they shall find Cause, commit every such Person to Gaol, there to remain until he, she, or they shall be delivered by due Course of Law.
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