Smuggling Act, 1807

How Persons apprehended for Offences against this Act or 42 G. 3 c. 82. or 45 G 3. c. 121, shall be bailed by Justices of the Peace.

XXXVI. And be it further enacted, That when any Person or Persons shall be arrested and taken before any One or more of His Majesty’s Justices of the Peace in Great Britain, for any Offence against this Act, or against the said Acts passed in the Forty-second and Forty-fifth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, such Person or Persons shall in no case be admitted to Bail, unless he, she, or they shall first enter into a Recognizance with Two sufficient Sureties to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, in the Sum of Two hundred Pounds, and the said Sureties in the Sum of One hundred Pounds each, with Condition that such Person or Persons shall appear at the then next ensuing Court of Oyer and Terminer, General Gaol Delivery, or Great Session, or General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, to be holden for the County or Place where such Offender or Offenders shall be arrested or taken, to answer and plead to any Indictment or Indictments which may be found at such Court of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery, or Great Session, or Quarter Session, for such Misdemeanor; and such Recognizance shall be forthwith transmitted to the Clerk of Assize, or other proper Officer of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, Gaol Delivery, or Great Session respectively, or to the Clerk of the Peace for such County or Place as aforesaid, as in the respective Cases may be proper.