Section 13

Section 13. That in all cases when it shall be lawful for the sheriff, jailor, or prison-keeper, of the county of Fulton, to hold in close custody the body of any person in the common jail of said county, if such jail were at this time erected in and for the said county, such person shall be delivered to and kept in close custody by the sheriff, jailor, or prison-keeper of the county of Bedford, who, upon delivery of such prisoners to him or them at the common jail in said county of Fulton, shall safely keep him, her, or them, until they be discharged by due course of law, and shall also be answerable in like manner, and liable to the like pains and penalties, as if the persons so delivered were liable to confinement in the common jail of Bedford county, and the parties aggrieved shall be entitled to the same remedies against them, or any of them, as if such prisoner had been committed to his of their custody by virtue of legal process issued by the proper authority of the said county of Bedford: Provided always, That the sheriff of Fulton county be allowed out of the county stock of said county ten cents per mile, as full compensation for every person charged with a criminal offence, which he may deliver to the jail of Bedford by virtue of this act, by orders drawn by the commissioners of Fulton county on the treasury thereof.