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felony

and being convicted there of should be liable to imprisonment for any team not

This Ordinance was dated the 8th January 1

exceeding labour.

three

with or without hard

years

1945.

I have not been able to find

out whether

any difficulty.

-arose in carrying it wito-

execution, nor are

records

there

any

crivival

of the Court to show whether

any

Conviction was obtained under it.

caue

On the 2000 October of the • year. Ordinance 12 of 1845 was passed to ancend Ordinance 1 of 1845, with a view of "introducing certain limitations and

and giving "additional certacity to its provisions ." By this Ordinance no person shall be considered as coming within the provisions of

of -

Ordinance 1 of 1845 who

A shall have joined the Friad Society

e

in ignorance of its designs,

B. under the influence of terror, or

C. who shall not have been decly convicted

of active participation in some

unlawful

act a

unlawful with the said

arising out of his connection Society.

The 44. Section of this Ordinance

repealed 1 of 1845 in so far as it provided

member of any Secret Society other than the Iriced Soviety.

any penalty against any me

It stuctly limited Ordincure 1 of 1845 to the Triad Soceity and to the Triad Society alone, and no longer punished membership of that Society unless there. was a conviction for active participation in some curlawful act arising out of "connection with that Society.

I can

assign no reason Ordivance which was

Society a

object

com

an

why paweed in January

1845 because these associations, i. e. Find

and other Secret Societies, had _ in view which were incompatible with the maintenance of good order and constituted authority, and with the excurity of life and property, afforded by means of hout Agency increased facilities for the Commission of crine and for the escape of offenders,

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should