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TITLE II.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE STATE, PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER.

465

A. 16.

B. 75.

C. 37.

CHAPTER V.-HIGH TREASON, Obstructing the Government, AND SEDITION,

66.—lligh Treason.

Any person who levies war against His Majesty, in order to intimidate or overawe the Executive or Legislative Council of A.B., is guilty of high treason and liable to death.

Any person conspiring with any person either within, or without of, A.B. to levy war against His Majesty with intent to cause such levying of war as would be treason if committed by one of His Majesty's subjects, is guilty of high treason and liable to death.

Provided that nothing in this section prevents any act from being high treason which is so by the law of the United Kingdom as in force in A.B.

67.—Accessories after the Fact to and concealing High Treason:

A. 79. B. 78.

Any person who-

0.38.

A. 80.

B. 79.

·C. 19. 11 & 12 Vict. c. 12.

(a) becomes an accessory after the fact to high treason; or

(b) knowing that any person is about to commit high treason, does not with all reasonable despatch give, infor- mation thereof to a justice of the peace, or use other reasonable endeavours to prevent the commission of such high treason;

is liable to penal servitude for life.

68.-Conspiring, Sc., to levy War in the Colony.

Any person who forms an intention to levy war against His Majesty in A.B. in order by force or constraint to compel him to change his measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe, the Governor or the Governor in Council or the Legislative Council, and who manifests any such intention by conspiring with any person to carry it into effect, or by any other overt act, or by publishing any writing or printing, is liable to penal servitude for life:

provided that no person charged with an offence punish- able under this section shall be entitled to be acquitted on the ground that any act proved against him amounts to high treason; but no person acquitted or convicted of any such offence shall afterwards be prosecuted for high treason on the same facts.

69.-Promoting native War.

Any person who, without lawful authority, carries on, or makes preparation for carrying on, or aids in or advises the carrying on of, or preparation for, any war or warlike under.

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