Section XIX. No Judge or other person acting as Commissioner under the provisions of Act XIV of 1857 (to make fur

XIX. No Judge or other person acting as Commissioner under the provisions of Act XIV of 1857 (to make further provision for the trial and punishment of certain offences relating to the Army, and of offences against the State) and Act XVI of 1857 (to make temporary provision for the trial and punishment of heinous offences in certain Districts) has power to release property attached or seized as forfeited or as liable to be forfeited to Government except under the provisions of Section VIII Act XXV of 1857 (to render Officers and Soldiers in the Native Army liable to forfeiture of property for Mutiny, and to provide for the adjudication and recovery of forfeitures of property in certain cases), when the offender or alleged offender shall have surrendered himself for trial, and shall be tried and acquitted by such Judge or Commissioner, and shall prove that he did not escape or keep out of the way for the purpose of evading justice; and b any ACT No. IX OF 1859. any order passed by any such Judge or Commissioner for the release of any property attached or seized as forfeited or liable to be forfeited to Government, except upon the acquittal before him of the person accused, and upon proof that he did not escape or keep out of the way for the purpose of evading justice, is hereby declared null and void.