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Now the law lays doron that

in the Two Kwang Provinces

disorderly ruffians who foru

fieret locúbi

1

a.

them the name Fiew to (Earth & Heaven) Society, with the object of committing robberies and resisting the Officers of the law; shall all, whether they haver played the part of recigleaders, or have) only guilty of persuading

been

σι

have

others to join the society, merely voluntarily entered it,

Orx

A

d the

their object being

Sa..., to wit, rapure and plunder_ - be liable to the penally of minediate decapitation.

Members of the society who have

induced others to jour,

have themselves been inveighed

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shall be punishable with immediate strangulations. Cobile such persons as have previously well conducted themselves, and whose pick offences

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has been to associate the sllows with the society, shall be banished to the New Dominion to cultivate,

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behalf of the Government, as lain portions

land)

certain

of

When the State has cradled)

mepiring

is it likely that

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strict laws,

misguided),

ignorant people will be allowed

there with empunity t

to break their

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To eneme their not doing so, I have written to the Magiolrales

of the several townships and to the Iustices of

the Peace,

district, ordering them to

institute

dove

So under-

any offend

ox

intimidations, but who have

mito joining

previously borne

a

bad character,

shall

have

enquiries, and freich

ay

arrest.

they further issued this Proclamation, for the information

of

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