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Presentment for rewards for appreheusion and prosecution of offenders.
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42. It shall be lawful for the grand jury of the said county, at any presenting term, if they shall think fit, to present, without any previous application at sessions, any sum of money not exceeding the sum of twenty pounds for each and every person who shall apprehend and prosecute to conviction any person guilty of any murder, and any sum not exceeding ten pounds for each and every person who shall apprehend and prosecute to conviction any person guilty of any other capital felony, or of any misdemeanor, for which any person on conviction may be liable to be transported; such sum or sums to be raised off such county, or any barony thereof, as such grand jury shall think proper, and to be paid to any prosecutor or prosecutors of such offenders as aforesaid; and such presentment may be made during the time appointed for transacting the criminal business of such county.
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