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TRIAD AND UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES.. [ 8 or 1887. ) 915

officer or other person, in his presence, or by warrant under ful
where unlaw
meeting
his hand and seal to enter with or without assistance, using hielen.
force in either case if necessary, into any dwelling -house or other Settlement
(Straits
building, or into any place in which he may have reasonable Ort. 19 or
ground to believe that a meeting of any society declared by this 1869,s. 8.]
ordinance to be an unlawful society is being held , or that live
or more persons belonging to any such unlawful society are
assembled, and to arrest or cause to be arrested all persons And may
found at any such meeting, and to search the premises and seize seize
arrestpers
andons
or cause to be seized all books, papers, documents, flags, insignia , andprop
found erty
arms and other articles which he may have reasonable cause to
believe to belong to any such society, or to be in any way con
nected with the purposes of the meeting :
5. All persons so arrested and all articles so seized may be Persons and
detained in custody till they can conveniently be brought before seized
property be
taken before
a Magistrate, where they shall be dealt with according to law . Magistrate.
[ Straits
Settlement
Orl, 19 of
1869, s. 9.]
6. If, on any such entry copies of any rules or regulations or deemert
what to be
engagements, obligations or promises, or lists or names ofmem prima facie
bers of any unlawful society, or if any insignia, banners, writ- evidence
unlawful of
ings, paintings, drawings or other articles relating or belonging assembly.
to any unlawful society be found, the finding thereof or the fact (strnits
of an oath or an engagement , obligation, or proinise having been Ord.19 of
administered or tendered at the meeting shall be primâ facie 1869, s.10.]
evidence that the meeting was a meeting of an unlawful society.
7. Any person attending a meeting of an unlawful society l'enalty for
attending
knowing that such meeting was a meeting of an unlawful society, uwlawful
and any person continuing to attend such meeting after having assembly.
been warned by any Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or Police Straits
Settlement
officer that the meeting is a meeting of an unlawful society, Ord. 19 of
shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceed 1809, s. 11.1
ing one hundre 1 dollars, or to imprisonment with or without
hard labour for any period not exceeding six montlıs, or to
both .

l'ersons
8. Any person knowingly allowing a meeting of an unlawful allowing
society to be held in any house, building, or place belonging to wmaw für
unlawful
or occupied by him or over which he has control, shall be liable assembly in
premises.
on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding five hundred premi
dollars or to six months' imprisonment with or without hard Seitlement
straits
labour, or to both . Orl, 19 of
1969, s. 12.]
'enalty.
9. Every person shall be considered ปa member of an unlawful Members of a
society who has been admitted as a member according to the society's
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