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     JOHN INGS, QUEEN’S PRINTER. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 6, 1866. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     VOL. VlII.—-No. 37 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     LAWS‘AOF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     CAP. VIII. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Act to prevent the clandestine training of persons 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     to the use of Arms, and to the practice of Mill- 
     
    
   
   
    
     tary Evolutions. 
     
     [Passed May 11, 1860.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     A HEREAS the clandestine and unlawful assem- 
     
    

    
     bling of men for the purpose of practising 
     
     military training and eXcreise Would create terror 
     
     and alarm in the minds of Her Majesty’s peaceable 
     
     and loyal subjects, and endanger the public peace; 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. Be it there fore enacted by the Lieutenant Gover- 
     
     nor, Council and Assembly, that all Meetings and 
     
     Assemblies of l’ei‘sons, for the purpose of training 
     
     or drillng themselves, or of being trained or drilled 
     
     to the use of Arms. or for the purpose of practising 
     
     Military Exercise, Movements or Evolutions, without 
     
     any lawful authority from Her Majesty, or the Lieu- 
     
     it:|).;,;=t Governor or Commander-in-Chief, or Two 
     
     Justices ofthe Peace ofany County, by Commission 
     
     or otherwise, forso doing, shall be, and the same are 
     
     hereby prohibited, as dangerous to the peace and 
     
     security of Her Majesty’s liege subjects, and ofHer 
     
     Government; and every person who shall be present 
     
     at, or attend any such Meeting or Assembly, forthe 
     
     purpose oftraining and drilling any other person or 
     
     persons to the use of Arms, or the practice of Mili- 
     
     tary Exercise,MoVements or Evolutions, or who shall 
     
     train or drill any other person or persons to the 'use 
     
     of arms, or the practice of Military Exercise, 
     
     Movements or EVolutions, or who shall aid or 
     
     assist therein, being legally convicted thereof, shall 
     
     be liable to be punished by imprisonment, not ex- 
     
     ceeding three years; and every person who shall 
     
     attend or be present at any such Meeting or Assem- 
     
     bly, as aforesaid, for the puipose of being, or who 
     
     shall, at any such Meeting or Assembly, be trained 
     
     or drilled to the use. of Arms, or the practice of 
     
     Military Exercise, MoVemcnts or Evolutions, being 
     
     legally convicted thereof, shall be liable to be pun- 
     
     ished by fine and imprisonment, not exceeding two 
     
     years, at the discretion of the Court in which such 
     
     conviction shall be had. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, 
     
     or for any Constable or Peace Oflicer, or for any 
     
     other person acting in their aid or assistance, to dis- 
     
     perse any such unlawful Meeting or Assembly, as 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     aforesaid, and to arrest and detain any person pre- 
     
     sent at, or aiding, assisting, or abetting any such 
     
     Assembly or Meeting, as aforesaid; and it shall be 
     
     lawful for the Justice of the Peace who shall arrest 
     
     any such person, or before whom any person, so ar— 
     
     rested, shall be brought, to commit such person for 
     
     trial for such offence, under the provisions of this 
     
     Act, unless such person can and shall give sufficient 
     
     bail for his appearance at the next sitting ofthe Su- 
     
     preme Court of Judicature, to answer to any In- 
     
     dictment which may be preferred against him for 
     
     any such offence against this Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. Nothing in this Act contained shall extend to 
     
     prevent any prosecution, by Indictment or otherwise, 
     
     for anything which shall be an offence, within the 
     
     intent and meaning ofthis Act, and which might have 
     
     been so prosecuted, if this Act had not been made, 
     
     unless the offender shall have been prosecuted for 
     
     such offence, under this Act, and convicted or ac- 
     
     quitted of such oflence. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IV. Any action or suit. which shall be brought or 
     
     commenced against any Justice of the Peace, Con- 
     
     stable, Pbace Ollicer, or other person, for anything 
     
     done or acted in pursuance ofthis Act, shall be com- 
     
     menced within six calendar months next after the 
     
     fact committed, and not afterwards; and the venue, in 
     
     every such action or suit, shall be laid in the proper 
     
     County where the fact was committed, and not else- 
     
     where; aud the Defendant, in every such action or 
     
     suit, may plead the General Issue, and give this Act 
     
     and the special matter in evidence at any trial to be 
     
     had thereupon; and if such action or suit shall be 
     
     brought or commenced after the time limited for 
     
     bringing the same, or the Venue shall be laid in any 
     
     other place than as aforesaid, then the Jury shall 
     
     find a verdict for the Defendant; and in such case, 
     
     or if the Jury shall find a Verdict for the Defendant, 
     
     upon the merits; or iftlie Plaintiff shall become non— 
     
     suit, or discontinue his action after appearance; or 
     
     if, upon Demurrer, judgment shall be given against 
     
     the Plaintiff, the Defendant shall have double costs, 
     
     which he shall and may recover in such and the 
     
     same manner as any Defendant can, by Law, in 
     
     other cases. 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. No person shall be prosecuted, by virtue of 
     
     this Act, for anything done or committed contrary to 
     
     the provisions hereinbefore contained, unless such 
     
     prosecution shall be commenced within six calendar 
     
     months after the offence committed.