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Provisions of 21 Ja. 1. c. 12. extended to persons all having publick employment in this kingdom or in the colonies and foreign possessions of the Crown who by law are empowered to commit persons to safe custody.
Where any action shall be brought for any thing done out of this kingdom, it may be laid in Westminster, or in any county where the defendant shall reside.
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6. And . . . whereas it is expedient to extend the provisions of an Act, passed in the twenty-first year of the reign of his Majesty King James the First, intituled “An Act to enlarge and make perpetual the Act made for ease in pleading against troublesome and contentious suits prosecuted against justices of the peace, mayors, constables, and certain other his Majesty’s officers, for the lawful execution of their office, made in the seventh year of his Majesty’s most happy reign,” to all persons who may by law commit to safe custody, either in or out of this kingdom: Be it therefore enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, the said recited Act and all the provisions therein contained shall extend, and be deemed, taken, and construed to extend, to all persons having, holding, or exercising, or being employed in, or who may hereafter have, hold, or exercise, or be employed in any publick employment, or any office, station, or capacity, either civil or military, either in or out of this kingdom, and who under and by virtue or in pursuance of any Act or Acts of Parliament, law or laws, or lawful authority within this kingdom, or any Act or Acts, statute or statutes, ordinance or ordinances, or law or laws, or lawful authority in any plantation, island, colony, or foreign possession of his Majesty, now have or may hereafter have by virtue of any such publick employment, or such office, station, or capacity, power or authority to commit persons to safe custody; and all such persons, having such power or authority as aforesaid, shall have and be entitled to all the privileges, benefits, and advantages given by the provisions of the said Act as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been specially named therein: Provided always, that where any action, bill, plaint, or suit upon the case, trespass, battery, or false imprisonment, shall be brought against any such person as is in this Act described as aforesaid, in this kingdom, for or upon any act, matter, or thing done out of this kingdom, it shall be lawful for the plaintiff bringing the same to lay such act, matter, or thing, to have been done in Westminster, or in any county where the person against whom any such action, bill, plaint or suit, shall be brought shall then reside, any thing in this Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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