916 [ 8 OF 1887. ] TRIAD AND UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES .
( 10 of 1887.] TRANSPORTATION AND PENAL SERVITUDE .
Settlement rules and regulations thereof, or who shall have paid an entrance
Orl, 19 of
1869, s. 255.] fee or a subscription, or who shall have attended two or more
meetings of the society as a member, or who shall have signed
the roll or list of members of the society , or who having once
become a member shall not have resigned or withdrawn from or
been expelled from the society.
Presumptive
proof of
10. When any of the banners, insignia, or writings of any
Imembership. society declared by this ordinance to be unlawful are found in
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ilement Oril. the possession, custody, or control of any person, it shall be
of 1892, s. presumed, till the contrary is shown by such person, that he is
j] à member of such unlawful society.
No. 10 OF 1887 .
An Ordinance to abolish Transportation and Penal
Servitude and to substitute other Punishment in lieu
thereof.
[ 13th April, 1887. ]
Penal servi 1. From and after the commencement of this ordinance no
tude abo
lished . person shall be sentenced to transportation or penal servitude,
and any person who, if this ordinance had not been passed,
might have been sentenced to transportation or penal servitude,
shall after the commencement of this ordinance be liable to be
sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for a term of the
same duration as the term of transportation or penal servitude
to which such person would have been liable it this ordinance
had not been passed .
Persons under
panal servi
2. All persons at present detained under any sentence of
tude to by penal servitude shallfor the remaining period of their sentence
deemed to
have been
be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard
sentenced to labour, and shall be classed accordingly and shall be subject to
hard labour. all laws and rules relating to the care, custody, management,
employment and discipline of offenders under sentence of impris
onment with hard labour, in the same manner as if they had
been originally sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.