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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