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948 THE GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 26, 1886. at the said Spring Assizes for the said Spring 18. Except where the context otherwise re- Assize County shall be in custody, three days quires, terms used in this Order shall have the before the day upon which the said Spring Assizes same meaning as that which the same terms have for the said Spring Assize County are appointed in the Spring Assizes Act, 1879. to be held, to send, without any Writ of Habeas ] 9. This Order, unless earlier revoked, shall be Corpus, such prisoners to Her Majesty's Gaol at in force during 'the continuance of the Spring St. Albans for the purposes of their trial, and to Assizes. 1886. C. L. Peel, take all proper steps for their transmission to the said Gaol, and their maintenance by the way, and the Gaoler of the said Gaol shall receive such pri- T the Court at Windsor ^ the 17th day of soners into his charge and custody on their arrival, A February, 1886. and shall keep and maintain them in the said Gaol PRESENT, until they are either ordered to be discharged or The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. remanded by proper authority, or until they shall have been tried and sentenced, and proper arrange- N pursuance of the Spring Assizes Act, 1879, ments have been made for their being sent back I Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the to the prison from which they were sent for trial, advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, or sent to any other prison which has been duly to order as follows :— appointed as an alternative for such prison. If, 1. The County of , the County of the however, the said Gaol has itself been duly ap- City of Canterbury, and so much of the County pointed as an alternative prison for the prison of as is not within the Central Criminal from which such prisoners were sent to trial, the Court District, shall, for the purposes of the next Governor of the said Gaol shall, subject to the Spring Assizes, be united together and form one Orders of the Secretary of State, keep and main- county, under the name of the Spring Assize tain in the said Gaol such prisoners after sentence, County, No. 10. until they are discharged in due course of . 2. The said Spring Assizes for the said Spring 15. The Clerk of Assize at the said Spring Assize County shall be held at . Assizes for the said Spring Assize County shall 3. The Court at the Spring Assizes at Lewes, have all powers of taxation of Bills of Costs, shall have jurisdiction to try any prisoner expenses of prosecution and witnesses, and all committed in the said Spring Assize County who other powers necessary for checking and paying may be brought before it, and shall have the same such costs relating to the trial of prisoners that powers with respect to the trial of and passing •the Clerk of Assize in the county where such pri- sentence upon such prisoner as a Court of Oyer soners were committed would have had if such and Terminer and Gaol Delivery would have had prisoner had been tried at the Assizes held in such at the Assizes in the county where, but for th« last-mentioned county. said Spring Assizes Act, 1879, such prisoner would Where any person is committed for trial, or is have been tried. bound by any recognizance to appear and answer, The provision of Section three of the Spring in the said Spring Assize County, any Judge of the Assizes Act, 1879, shall apply to the execution of , or the committing Justice or any capital sentence passed at such Assizes as Justices, or any two of the Justices of the county herein mentioned ; provided that the expression or place from which he is' committed or admitted in the said Section " the Sheriff of the County lor to bail, may, upon the application of such person, which such Assizes were held" shall mean the direct the Treasurer of the county or place Sheriff of the. County in which the prisoner so where such person was committed, or entered sentenced would have been tried if tho Spring into any recognizance to appear and answer as Assizes Act, 1879, had not been passed. aforesaid, to advance to such person a sum not 4. The Sheriff of the County of Sussex shall exceeding 20/. to enable him to defray the travel- alone act for the purpose of the said Spring ling expenses of such of his witnesses as may have Assizes for the said Spring Assize County, and been bound hy recognizances to appear on his subject to the provisions of this Order shall have behalf, and the Treasurer shall advance such sum, jurisdiction for that purpose over the whole dis- and shall deduct it out of the amount ultimately trict constituting the said Spring Assize County, allowed in respect of such witnesses. and precepts and other documents relating to the 16. In any case where money is ordered by the said Spring Assizes shall be addressed to him Court at the said Spring Assizes for the said alone. Spring Assize County to be paid in respect of 5. The Gaol Delivery precept of the Judges to costs and expenses of prosecutors and witnesses, the said Sheriif shall direct him to summon the the same shall be paid by the Treasurer of the Grand Jurors and Petty Jurors from the County county or place by whom the same would have been of Sussex, and the Jurors so summoned shall be payable had a like order been made hy a Court of deemed to be good and lawful men of the body Oyer and Terminer or Gaol Delivery in the county of the several counties constituting the said Spring where the trial would have taken place but for Assize County, and the Grand and Petty Jury the Spring Assizes Act, 1879, and this Order ; and formed out of those Jurors shall be deemed to be every such Treasurer or some known Agent on a Grand and Petty Jury respectively of the body his behalf shall attend the said Spring Assizes of the said counties respectively and shall have during the sitting of the Court to pay all such jurisdiction accordingly. orders. 6. The precepts of the Judges to the said Sheriff 17. Where the Court at the Spring Assizes for shall direct him to cause the prisoners from all the said Spring Assize County remand a prisoner the prisons in the said Spring Assize County who or adjourn any trial, or otherwise make an order under the provisions of this Order will have to be respecting a prisoner committed for trial but not tried at Lewes to be brought there, and the acquitted or convicted, the Court may make such Sheriff shall cause such prisoners to be brought order with respect to the removal of sucli prisoner accordingly without any Writ of Habeas Corpus. to a prison in the county or place in which he was 7. In all matters not before specifically men- committed for trial as to the Court seems just, tioned the precepts to the said Shorifl shall direct and the prisoner may be removed accordingly, him to issue and he shall issue, the like notices, without any Writ of Habeas Corpus. precepts, warrants, ami documents, and perform