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And that letters be directed by the justice clerk charging all vagabonds and masterless men to find surety to underlie the law the third day of the circuit court, or sooner upon 15 days' warning for all such crimes as shall be given in the indictment against them; or failing thereof, to be denounced rebels and fugitives and their harbourers to be pursued thereafter until they by apprehended and punished for their demerits; and the parties damaged to have competent action, civil or criminal, against the magistrates or others within whose bounds, jurisdiction or power such vagabonds or fugitives are wittingly harboured, according to the said act of parliament.