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or depose Our Most Gracious Lady the Queen, Her heirs or successors, from the style, honor, or royal name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom, or of any of Her Majesty’s dominionsand countries, or to levy war against Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors within any part of the United Kingdom, or within any other of Her Majesty’s dominions or countries, or this Island, in order by force or constraint to compel Her or them to change Her or their measures or counsel, or in order to put any force or constraint upon, or in order to intimi- date or overawe the General Assembly of this Island or either branch of the Legislature, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other of Her Majesty’s dominions, or this Is- land, under the obeisance of Her Majesty, Her heirs or successors, and such compassings, im« aginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them shall express, utter 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 to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding fourteen years, with or without hard labor, as the court shall direct.

III. Provided always, and be it enacted, that no person shall be prosecuted for any felony by virtue of this act in respect of such com- passings, 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 die clared shall be given upon oath to one or more 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 in- formation shall be given as aforesaid, and that no person shall be convicted of any such coma passings, 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.

IV. It shall be lawful in any indictment for any felony under this act to charge against the

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offender any number of the matters, acts or deeds by which such compassings, imagina- tions, inventions, devices or intentions as aforesaid, or any of them shall have been expressed, uttered or declared : Provided al- ways that nothing herein contained shall lessen the force of, or in any manner affect, any thing enacted by the Imperial statute, passed in the twenty-fifth year of King Edward the third, a declaration which offences shall be adjudged treason.

V. Provided also and be it enacted that if the facts or matters alleged in an indictment for any felony under this act shall amount in law to treason, such indictment shall not, by reason thereof, be deemed void, erroneous or defective, and if the facts or matters proved on the trial of any person indicted for any felony under this act shall amount in law to treason, such person shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to be acquitted of such felony, but no ,person tried for such felony shall be afterwards pro- secuted for treason upon the same facts.

VI. In the case of any felony punishable under this act, every principal in. second de- gree and every accessory before the fact shall be punishable in the same manner as the prin- cipal in the first degree is by this act punish- able, and every accessory after the fact to any such felony shall, on conviction, be liable to be imprisoned with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding two years.

An Act to empower the Government of Prince Edward Island to expend Ten thousand pounds in the purchase of Lands within the said Island.

[Passed 24th April, 1868.]

BE it enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly that it shall and may be lawful for the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice of Her Majesty‘s Ex- ecutive Council, at any time and from time to time after the passing of this act to purchase Lands in this Island, to the amount of ten thousand pounds, of the lawful money of the said Island, and to pay for any lands so pur- chased such price per acre as the said Lieut- enant Governor in Council may deem advisable, notwithstanding that such price shall exceed the price or sum per acre as limited by and mentioned in the act of the sixteenth Victoria, Chapter eight. II. All lands purchased under the provisions of this act shall (except with regard to the price