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VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 4

Power to apprehend persons offending against this Act.

4. It shall be lawful for any person whatsoever to apprehend any person whom
he shall find offending against this Act, and to take and convey such offender
as soon as may be reasonably practicable before any justice of the peace, to
be dealt with as is herein-before provided, or to deliver him to any constable
or other peace officer of the county or place wherein he shall have been
apprehended, to be so taken and conveyed as aforesaid; and it shall be the
duty of every constable or peace officer to take into his custody every such
offender so delivered to him, and to take and convey such offender before a
justice of the peace as soon as may be reasonably practicable, to be dealt
with as is directed by this Act.

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