Section II Persons apprehending and prosecuting Offender to Conviction, to have Certificate thereof without Fee.

In case of Dispute in respect of Right to Certificate, the same may be decided by Judge, &c. making such Certificate; Certificate may be assigned once; Proprietor of Certificate discharged of Parish and Ward Offices, as herein mentioned; Certificate inrolled; Fee.

And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Twentieth Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety nine all and every Person and Persons who shall apprehend and take any Person guilty of any the Felonies before mentioned and prosecute him her or them so apprehended and taken untill he she or they be convicted of any the aforesaid Felonies such Apprehenders and Takers for his her or their Reward upon every such Conviction without any Fee or Reward to be paid for the same shall have forthwith after every such Conviction a Certificate which shall be under the Hand or Hands of the Judge Justice or Justices before whom every such Conviction shall be had certifying such Conviction and alsoe within what Parish or Place the Felony was committed whereof any such Person or Persons was or were convicted as aforesaid and alsoe that such Felon or Felons was or were discovered and taken or discovered or taken by the Person or Persons soe discovering or apprehending any the said Felon or Felons And in case any Dispute shall happen to arise between any of the Persons so discovering or apprehending any the said Felon or Felons soe convict as aforesaid touching their Right or Title to the said Certificate that then the said Judge Justice or Justices or the major part of them so respectively makeing such Certificate as aforesaid shall in and by his or their Certificate direct and appoint the said Certificate into so many Shares to be divided amongst the Persons therein concerned as to the said Judge Justice or Justices or the major part of them shall seeme just and reasonable which Certificate shall and may be once assigned over and no more and the originall Proprietor of such Certificate or the Assignee of the same whomsoever of them shall have the Interest therein by virtue thereof and of this present Act shall and may be discharged of and from all and all manner of Parish and Ward Offices within the Parish or Ward wherein such Felony or Felonies shall be committed and such Party or Assignee is hereby declared to be discharged therefrom which said Certificate shall be inrolled by the Clerke of the Peace of the County in which the same shall be granted for which Inrollment the said Clerke of the Peace of the County or City in which the same shall be granted shall have for his Fee the Sum of One Shilling and no more