Section VIII In Action for executing Act,

Action to be laid in the County where Fact committed; General Issue may be pleaded; Treble Costs.

Provided alwaies and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Action or Suit shall be brought and prosecuted by any Person or Persons against any Justice of the Peace or other Person or Persons imployed by them or any of them in the Execution of this Act for any Matter Cause or Thing by them or either of them done committed or executed by vertue or Reason of this Act or any Clause or Article therein contained That then and in every such Case the Action shall be laid in the proper County where the Fact was done and committed and not elsewhere and the Defendant and Defendants may plead the Generall Issue and give this Act and the speciall Matter in Evidence at the Tryall that the same was done in pursuance and by Authority of this Act and if upon such Action or Actions Verdict be given for the Defendant or Defendants or the Plaintiffe become Nonsuit or discontinue his Action then the Defendant or Defendants shall have Treble Costs which he or they shall sustaine or be putt unto by reason of his or their wrongfull Vexation in Defence of the said Action or Suite