1020
as to offences against the
Person of the Sovereign.
Offences declared felonies by this Ordinance to be punishable by penal servitude
or imprisonment.
Time within which prosecution shall be commenced, warrant issued, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1868.
Treasonable Offences.
Imperial Parliament of the fifty-seventh year of the same reign, chapter six, and all the provisions of the last mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of the same respectively as relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment, or restraint of the Person of the Heirs, and Successors of His said Majesty King George the third, and the expressing, uttering or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall cease to be of force in this Colony.
3. If any person whatsoever after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance shall, within this Colony, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors from the style, honor, or name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom or of any other of Her Majesty's dominions or countries, or to levy war against Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors within any part of the United Kingdom in order by force or constraint to compel Her or Them to change Her or Their measures or counsels or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of the Imperial Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom, or any other Her Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors, and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them shall express with, or declare by publishing any printing or writing or by open and advised speaking or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement.
4. Provided always that no person shall be prosecuted for any felony by virtue of this Ordinance in respect of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open and advised speaking only unless information of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, and intentions, and of the words by which the same were expressed, uttered, or declared shall be given upon oath or declaration to one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace within six days after such words shall have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom such words shall have been spoken, shall be issued within ten days next after such information shall have been given as aforesaid, and unless such warrant shall be issued within two years next after the passing of this Ordinance, and that no person shall be convicted of any such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open or advised speaking as aforesaid, except upon his own confession in open Court, or unless the words so spoken shall be proved by two credible witnesses.
1020
as to offences against the
Person of the Sovereign.
Offences (leclared felonies by this Ordinance to be punishable by penal servitude
or imprisonment.
Time within which prose-
cution shall be commenced, warrant issued, &c.
ORDINANCE No. 13 OF 1868.
Treasonable Offences.
Imperial Parliament of the fifty-seventh year of the same reign, chapter six, and all the provisions of the last mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of the same respectively as relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending death or destruction, or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maim or wounding, imprisonment, or restraint of the Person of the Heirs, and Successors of His said Majesty King George the third, and the expressing, uttering or declaring of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall cease to be of force in this Colony.
3. If any person whatsoever after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance shall, within this Colony, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, Her Heirs or Successors from the style, honor, or name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom or of
royal any other of Her Majesty's dominions or countries, or to levy war against Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors within any part of the United Kingdom in order by force or constraint to compel Her or Them to change Her or Their measures or counsels or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of the Imperial Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom, or any other Her Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Suce
Successors, and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them shall express with, or declare by publishing any printing or writing or by open and advised speaking or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement.
4. Provided always that no person shall be prosecuted for any felony by virtue of this Ordinance in respect of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open and advised speaking only unless information of such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, and intentions, and of the words by which the same were expressed, uttered, or declared shall be given upon oath or declaration to one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace within six days after such words shall have been spoken, and unless a warrant for the apprehension of the person by whom such words shall have been spoken, shall be issued within ten days next after such information shall have been given as aforesaid, and unless such warrant shall be issued within two years next after the passing of this Ordinance, and that no person shall be convicted of any such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open or advised speaking as aforesaid, except upon his own confession in open Court, or unless the words so spoken shall be proved by two credible witnesses.
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