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APPENDIX III.

PROVISIONS OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT, 1679.
It enacts: —(1) That on complaint and request in
Provisions of the writing by or on behalf of any peison
Habeas Corpus Act, committed and charged with any crime
1679. (unless committed for treason or felony
plainly expressed in the warrant; or as accessory or on
suspicion of being accessory before the fact to any petit
treason or felony; or upon suspicion of such petit treason
plainly expressed in the warrant ; or unless he is convicted
or charged in execution by legal process) the Lord Chan.
cellor or any of the judges in vacation, upon viewing a copy
of the warrant, or affidavit that a copy is denied, shall
(unless the party has neglected for two whole terms after
his imprisonment to apply to any court for his enlargement)
 award a habeas corpus for such prisoner, returnable
immediately before himself or any other of the judges.
And upon service thereof the officer in whose custody the
prisoner is shall bring him before the said Lord Chancellor
 or other judge, with the return of such writ and the
tue cause of the commitment; and thereupon, within two
days after the party shall be brought before them, the said
Lord Chancellor or other judge shall discharge the prisoner,
if bailable, upon giving security in any sum according to
their discretion, having regard to his quality and the nature
of his offence, to appear and answer to the accusation in
the proper course of judicature, (2) That such writs shall
be endorsed as granted in pursuance of this Act, and signed
by the person awarding the same. (3) That the writ shall