Chap. 33.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the seventeenth section of
chapter sixteen of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, in
relation to Rewards for Persons charged with Offences.

Approved February 4, 1876.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
seventeen of chapter sixteen of the Code of eighteen hun-
dred and seventy-three, be amended and re-enacted so as to
read as follows: a
_ §17. The governor may offerareward for apprehending and
securing any persons convicted of an offence or charged there-
with; who shall have escaped from prison, or for apprehending
and securing any person charged with an offence, who there is
reason to fear cannot be arrested in the common course of
proceeding. But no such reward shall be paid to any sheriff,
sergeant or other officer, who may arrest such person by
virtue of any procéss in his hands to be executed. The gov-
ernor may also offer a reward for the detection and convic-
tion of the person guilty of an offence,-when such offence has
been committed, but the person guilty thereof is unknown.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

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