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Offences

"cognizable by

High Court.

Setting forth,

aiding and

assisting, &c.,

pirates, where

piracy com-

mited.

Setting forth, aiding and

assisting, &c.

pirates, where piracy with violence or piracy with

murder com-mitted.

Trading, &c. with pirates.

Receiving, &c., pirates after piracy or taking ship, goods, &c., piratically stolen with knowledge,

ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1866.

Suppression of Piracy.

7. "The High Court for Suppression of Piracy" shall have jurisdiction to try all cases of piracy which the Supreme Court now has jurisdiction to try, and the offences hereinafter defined, and to inflict the punishment attached thereto respectively.

(1.) If any person shall knowingly have set forth any pirate or aided, assisted, maintained, procured, commanded, counselled, or advised any person whatsoever to do or commit any piracy, every such person shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fifteen years and not less than five years, or to be transported for any term not exceeding fifteen years and not less than five years or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labor.

(2.) If any person shall have knowingly set forth any pirate, or aided, assisted, maintained, procured, commanded, counselled, or advised any person whatsoever to do or commit any piracy and in consequence of such setting forth, aid, assistance, maintenance, procurement, command, counsel, or advice, a piracy with murder has been committed such first mentioned person shall suffer death, or be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than fourteen years, or to be transported for life or for any term not exceeding fourteen years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labor.

(3.) If any person shall have traded with any pirate, knowing him to be guilty of piracy, or to be fitted out with the intention of committing piracy, or who with the like knowledge shall have furnished any pirate with arms, ammunition, provisions, or stores of any kind or shall fit out any junk, vessel, or boat knowingly and with a design to trade with, supply, or correspond with any pirate or if any person shall in any way have consulted, combined, confederated, or corresponded with any pirate knowing him to be guilty of piracy such first mentioned person shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than five years or to be transported for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than five years, or to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding two years.

(4.) If any person shall have knowingly received, entertained, or concealed any person guilty of an act of piracy or taken into his custody any junk, vessel, boat, goods or chattels which shall have been by such pirate feloniously taken, such first mentioned person shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than five years or to be transported for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than five years...