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Directors may act as Justices of the Peace.
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XX. It shall be lawful for the Directors of Prisons, or any of them, and he or they are hereby authorized, in any Prison, either on Land or on board any Vessel, and also in every Place wherein any Offenders under Rule or Order of Sentence of Transportation or Penal Servitude shall be detained, or shall be employed to labour, to act in every respect as a Justice or Justices of the Peace as if he or they had been named in the Commission of the Peace, and had been duly qualified to act as a Justice or Justices of the Peace for the County or Place in which such Place of Confinement or Convict Prison shall be, or any Convict shall be employed to labour.
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