The term ''magistrate'', in any section of the statutes which provides for admitting persons to bail in criminal cases, shall be construed to include a bail commissioner or special magistrate, so far as to give him authority to admit prisoners to bail.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 276, § 82
Magistrates authorized to admit prisoners to bail
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