IXExtension of Power to enlarge Prisoners on Recognizance.

And be it enacted, That whenever any Person shall be charged before any Police Magistrate or before any Two Justices, at any Police Court within the Metropolitan Police District, with any Felony or Misdemeanor for which he is liable to be committed to take his Trial at the Assizes to be holden for any of the Counties of Essex, Hertford, Kent, or Surrey, it shall be lawful for such Police Magistrate or for such Justices, if he or they respectively shall think fit, to suffer such Person to go at large upon a Recognizance conditioned for surrendering himself to take his Trial at such Assizes, in like Manner as such Recognizance may be taken for his Surrender to take his Trial at the Central Criminal Court, in Cases where he is liable to be committed for Trial at the Central Criminal Court; and every such Recognizance shall be within all the Provisions of the last-recited Act relating to Recognizances for surrendering to be tried at the Central Criminal Court.