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| (2) Such statement shall be recorded and signed in the manner provided in section 277 and dated, and shall then be forwarded to the Magistrate's Court by Which the case is to be inquired into or tried. |
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| (3) A Magistrate shall not record any such statement being a confession unless upon questioning the person making it he has reason to believe that it was made voluntarily, and when he records any such statement he shall make a memorandum at the foot of such record to the following effect:- |
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