Member of Parliament receiving bribes. Bribery of member of Parliament. Criminal Code. mon witnesses, refuses to answer any lawful and relevant question; is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for two years. 60. ANY person who, being a member of either House of Parliament, asks, receives, or obtains, or agrees or attempts to receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind for himself or any other person upon any understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, in the House of which he is a member, or in any Committee thereof, or in any joint Committee of both Houses, shall be influenced thereby, or shall be given in any particular manner or in favour of any particular side of any question or matter, is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years, and is disqualified from sitting or voting as a member of either House of Parliament for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. 61. ANY person who (1.) In order to influence a member of either House of Parliament in his vote, opinion, judgment, or action, upon any question or matter arising in the House of which he is a member or in any Committee thereof, or in any joint Committee of both Houses, or in order to induce him to absent himself from the House or from any such Committee, gives, confers, or procures, or promises or offers to give or confer, or to procure or attempt to procure, any property or benefit of any kind to, upon, or for, such member, or to, upon, or for, any other person or (2.) Attempts, directly or indirectly, by fraud, or by threats or intimidation of any kind, to influence a member of either House of Parliament in his vote, opinion, judg ment, or action, upon any such question or matter, or to induce him to so absent himself; is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years. The offender cannot be arrested without warrant. Definitions. CHAPTER IX.-UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES: BREACHES OF THE PEACE. 62. WHEN three or more persons, with intent to carry out some common purpose, assemble in such a manner, or, being assembled, conduct themselves in such a manner as to cause persons in the neighbourhood to fear, on reasonable grounds, that the Criminal Code. the persons so assembled will tumultuously disturb the peace, or will by such assembly needlessly and without any reasonable occasion provoke other persons tumultuously to disturb the peace, they are an unlawful assembly. It is immaterial that the original assembling was lawful if, being assembled, they conduct themselves with a common purpose in such a manner as aforesaid. An assembly of three or more persons who assemble for the purpose of protecting the house of any one of them against persons threatening to break and enter the house in order to commit an indictable offence therein is not an unlawful assembly. When an unlawful assembly has begun to act in so tumultuous a manner as to disturb the peace, the assembly is called a riot, and the persons assembled are said to be riotously assembled. 63. ANY person who takes part in an unlawful assembly is Punishment of guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one unlawful assembly. year. 64. ANY person who takes part in a riot is guilty of a mis- Punishment of riot. demeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years. disperse. 65. WHENEVER any persons, to the number of twelve or Rioters remaining more, are riotously assembled together, it is the duty of some one after proclamation of the following persons, that is to say, the sheriff or under sheriff, ordering them to or a justice of the peace, or, if the assembly is in a municipality, the mayor, to go amongst them, or as near as he can safely come to them, and to command or cause to be commanded with a loud voice that silence be kept while the proclamation next hereinafter mentioned is made, and then openly and with a loud voice to make proclamation, or cause proclamation to be made, in these words or to the like effect: Our Sovereign Lord the King charges and commands all Any person who wilfully and knowingly, and by force, opposes, obstructs, or hurts, any person who goes to make, or begins to make, any such proclamation, and thereby prevents the proclamation from being made, is guilty of a crime. Any persons who, being so assembled, continue together to the number of twelve or more, and do not disperse themselves within Rioters demolishing buildings, etc. Rioters injuring building, machinery, etc. Going armed so as to cause fear. Forcible entry. Criminal Code. within the space of an hour after the making of the proclamation, are guilty of a crime. When the making of the proclamation is prevented, any persons who, being so assembled, and to whom the proclamation would or ought to have been made if the making thereof had not been so prevented, and who, knowing of such prevention, continue together to the number of twelve or more, and do not disperse themselves within the space of an hour after the time of such prevention, are guilty of a crime. Any person who commits any of the crimes defined in this section is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years. A prosecution for any of the crimes defined in this section must be begun within a year after the crime is committed. 66. ANY persons who, being riotously assembled together, unlawfully pull down or destroy, or begin to pull down or destroy--(a.) Any building whatever; or (b.) Any machinery whatever, whether fixed or movable; or (c.) Any structure used in farming land, or in carrying on any trade or manufacture, or in conducting the business of a mine; or (d.) Any bridge, wagon-way, or trunk, for conveying materials from a mine; are guilty of a crime; and each of them is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for fourteen years. 67. ANY persons who, being riotously assembled together, unlawfully damage any of the things in the last preceding section mentioned, are guilty of a crime; and each of them is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for seven years. 68. ANY person who goes armed in public without lawful occasion in such a manner as to cause terror to any person is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years. 69. ANY person who, in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of a breach of the peace, enters on land which is in the actual and peaceable possession of another is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. It is immaterial whether he is entitled to enter on the land or not. 70. Criminal Code. 70. ANY person who, being in actual possession of land without colour of right holds possession of it in a manner likely to cause a breach of the peace or reasonable apprehension of a breach of the peace, against a person entitled by law to the possession of the land is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. 71. ANY person who takes part in a fight in a public highway, or takes part in a fight of such a nature as to alarm the public in any other place to which the public have access, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for one year. Forcible detainer. Affray. Challenge to fight a 72. ANY person who challenges another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke another to fight a duel, or attempts to provoke duel. any person to challenge another to fight a duel, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years. 73. ANY person who fights in a prize fight, or subscribes to or promotes a prize fight, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment for one year. 74. ANY person who Prize fight. Threatening (1.) With intent to intimidate or annoy any person, threatens violence. (2.) With intent to alarm any person in a dwelling-house, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard If the offence is committed in the night, the offender is guilty of a crime, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years. CHAPTER X.-OFFENCES AGAINST POLITICAL LIBERTY. Interfering with 75. ANY person who by violence, or by threats or intimidation of any kind, hinders or interferes with the free exercise of any political liberty. political right by another person, is guilty of a misdemeanour, and is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for two years. If the offender is a public officer, and commits the offence in abuse of his authority as such officer, he is liable to imprisonment with hard labour for three years. CHAPTER Definition of piracy in general. Further definition of pirates. Criminal Code. CHAPTER XI.--PIRACY. 66 76. IN this chapter the term pirate" includes any person who on the high seas commits, otherwise than as an act of war, and under the authority of some Foreign Prince or State, any act with respect to a ship, or any goods or merchandise belonging to a ship or laden upon it, which, if the act were committed on land, would constitute robbery as hereinafter defined; and any person who, having on the high seas obtained possession of a ship by means of any such act, retains possession thereof. The term also includes any person who is declared by any Statute to be a pirate. The act of any such person is called piracy. 77. ANY person who does any of the acts following, that is to say : (1.) Being a British subject, and being at any place within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, commits, under colour of a commission from a Foreign State or Prince, whether such State or Prince is at war with the Sovereign or not, or under pretence of authority from any person whatever, any act of hostility, or any act which, if it were committed on land, would be robbery as hereinafter defined, against another British subject: or (2.) Being a British subject, is in any way adherent to or (4.) Being on board a British ship at any place within the (a.) Turns pirate, enemy, or rebel, and piratically runs away with the ship, or any boat, ordnance, ammunition, or goods belonging to it or laden upon it; or (b.) Voluntarily yields up the ship or any such thing as last mentioned to a pirate; or (c.) Brings a seducing message from a pirate, enemy, or rebel; or (d.) Consults or conspires with, or attempts to corrupt, any master or officer of a ship, or any seaman, with |