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be returned, and the prisoner brought up, within a limited
time according to the distance, not exceeding in any case
twenty days after service of the writ. (4) That officers
and keepers neglecting or refusing to make due returns, or
not delivering to the prisoner or his agent within six hours
after demand a true copy of the warrant of commitment,
or shifting the custody of the prisoner from one to another
without sufficient reason or authority (specified in section 8
of the Act), shall for the first offence forfeit £ 100, and for the
second offence £200, to the party grieved and be disabled
to hold his office. (5) That no person once delivered by
habeas corpus shall be re-committed for the same offence,
on penalty to the party of £500, (6) That every person
committed for treason or felony shall, if he requires it, the
first week of the next term, or the first day of the next
session of ayer and fevminer, be indicted in that term or
session, or else admitted to bail, unless it appear, upon
sath made, that the King’s witnesses cannot be produced at
that time; and if acquitted, or not indicted and tried in the
second term or session, he shall be discharged from his
imprisonment for such imputed oftence ; but that no person,
after the assizes shall be open for the county in which he
is detained, shall be removed from the common gaol by
habeas corpus till after the assizes are ended, but shall be
left to the justice of the judges of assize. (7) That any
such prisoner may move for and obtain his kabeas corpus as
well out of the Chancery or Exchequer as out of the King’s
Bench or Common Pleas; and the Lord Chancellor or
judges denying the same, on view of the copy of the warrant,
 or oath that such copy is refused, shall forfeit severally
to the party grieved the sum of £500. (8) That this writ
of habeas corpus shall run into the Counties Palatine. the