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RECEIVING PAPER FOR POSTAGE COVERS. The 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96. s. 30. makes it a misdemeanor for any person not lawfully authorised, or without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person accused), to purchase or receive, or take or have in his custody or possession, any paper provided for postage covers, envelopes, or stamps, before it is stamped and issued for public use.

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fully discharge, or attempt to discharge, or point, aim, or present, at or near to the person of the Queen, any gun, pistol, or any other description of fire arms, or of other arms whatsoever, whether the same shall or shall not contain any explosive or destructive material, or shall discharge or cause to be discharged, or attempt to discharge, or cause to be discharged, any explosive substance or material near to the person of the Queen, or if any person shall wilfully strike or strike at, or attempt to strike or strike at the person of the Queen, with any offensive weapon or in any other manner whatsoever, or if any person shall wilfully throw, or attempt to throw any substance, matter, or thing whatsoever at or upon the person of the Queen, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to injure the person of the Queen, or with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to break the public peace, or whereby the public peace may be endangered, or with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to alarm her Majesty; or if any person shall, near to the person of the Queen, wilfully produce or have any gun, pistol, or any other description of fire arms or other arms whatsoever, or

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any explosive, destructive, or dangerous matter, or thing whatsoever, with intent to use the same to injure the person of the Queen, or to alarm her Majesty, every such person so offending shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor.

By the 1st section of the same statute it is enacted, that in all cases of high treason, in compassing or imagining any bodily harm, tending to the death or destruction, maiming or wounding of the Queen, and in all cases of misprision of any such treason, where the overt act alleged in the indictment shall be any attempt to injure in any manner whatsoever the person of the Queen, the person charged with such offence shall and may be indicted, arraigned, tried, and attainted in the same manner, and according to the same course and order of trial, in every respect, and upon the like evidence, as if such person stood charged with murder; and none of the provisions contained in the several acts of the 7th year of William III., and the 7th year of Queen Anne, and the 6th year of George IV., respectively, touching trials in cases of treason and misprision of treason respectively, shall extend to

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any indictment for high treason in compassing or imagining the death or destruction of the Queen, or to any indictment for high treason in compassing and imagining any bodily harm tending to the death or destruction, maiming or wounding of the Queen, or for misprision of such treason, where the overt act of such treason alleged in the indictment shall be such as aforesaid: but upon conviction upon such indictment, judgment shall be nevertheless given, and execution done as in other cases of high treason, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.

The 3d section of the same statute provides that nothing contained in the act shall be deemed to alter in any respect the punishment which by law may now be inflicted upon persons guilty of high treason or misprision of

treason.

SENTENCES.

INDEX.

ABDUCTION,

of women, 11.

of girls under the age of sixteen, 131.
of children under the age of ten, 11.

ABETTING, 126.

ABORTION, the causing of, 12.

ACCEPTANCES, forging, 56.

ACCESSARIES IN FELONY, 126

ACT for the further security and protection of the Queen's person
offences against, 241.

ADMINISTERING

poison, 105.

unlawful oaths, 105.

ADMIRALTY,

extortion by officers of the, 169.

forging the hand of the registrar of the court of, 68.

AFFRAY, 131.

AGENTS,

embezzlement by, 160

AIDING, 126.

ALTERNATIVE, as to sentences, vii.

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