The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

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caused to be made] openly and with a loud voice a proclamation in the words
following, that is to say, “Our Sovereign Lady the Queen charges and commands
all persons here assembled immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to
depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, or they will be guilty of
a crime, and will be liable to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for life;
God save the Queen”: Yet the said AB. [and C.D.] and others being so assembled,
continued together to the number of twelve [and more], and did not dis erse
themselves within the space of an hour after the said proelamation was SO maf;e.
(2.) Divers persons to the number of twelve [and more] were riotously assembled
together: And that thereupon one S.T., a justice of the peace (or as the case may
be), went to make [or began to make] a proclamation commanding the said persons
so assembled to disperse themselves, as by law it was his duty to do: And that
A.B. [and C.D.] then and there wilfully and knowingly and by force opposed [or
obstructed or hurt] the said S.T. in the performance of his duty aforesaid, and
thereby prevented such proclamation from being made.
(3.) And other persons were riotously assernbled together to the number of
twelve Land more]: And that thereupon one S.T., a justice of the peace (or as
the case may be), went to make [or began to make! a proclamation eomrnnading
the said persons so assembled to disperse themselves, as by law it was his daty to
do: And that thereupon divers persons, to the said Altorney-General [or J.J.K.]
unknown, by force prevented the making of such proclamation: And that the said
A.B. [and C.D.], being one [or some] of the persons so assembled to whom such
proclamation would or ought to have been made if the making thereof had not
been so prevented, and knowing of such prevention, continued together with others
of the persons so assembled to the number of twelve [and more], and did not disperse
themselves within the space of an hour after the time o€ such prevention.
NO. 21.-RIOTERS DF~\~LOT.JISI~[INB BUILDINGS, ETC.
Section 65.
[And other persons,) being riotously assembled together [to the number of three
(and more)], unlawfully pulled down [or destroyed or began to pull down (or
destroy)] a building, namely, a church (OT as the case may be, describing the
building) [or certain fixed (or mot.eable) machinery, namely, a steam engine (or
electrical engine or as the case may be), the property of one E.F.] [or a barn (or
as the case may be) used in farming land the property of one E.F.] [or a bridge
(or wagonway or trunk) for conveying minerals from a mine, the property of one
E.F.].
NO. 22.--RIOTEBS INJUEING BUITJDINGS, MACHINEICY, ETC.
Section 66.
[And other persons] being riotously assembled together [to the number .of
three (and more)], unlawfully damaged a building (or as the case may be, descrtbe
the building or property as in preceding Form).
NO. 23.-SMUGGLING On RESCUING GOODS UNDEE ARMS.
Section 67.
And other persons assenibled together to the number of three [and more]
armed with firearms [or with dangerous (or offensive) weapons, namely, airguns,
or as the case may be].
(a) In order to unlawfully ship [or unship or load or move or carry away] [or
to aid in the unlawful shipping (or unshipping or loading or moving or carrying
away) of] certain goods the importation whereof was prohibited by law [or certain
goods liable to duties of Customs, which duties had not been paid or secured];
or (b) in order to rescue [or take or aid in rescuing (or taking)] certain goods
&, as in (a)) from one E.F., who was lawfully authorised to seize the said
goods [or from one G.H., who was then and there employed by (or assisting) one
E.F., who was lawfully authorised to seize the said goods] [or from a place of
deposit wherein one E.F., who was lawfully authorised to seize the said goods,
had put them] ;
or (0) in order to rescue [or aid in rescuing] one M.N., who had then lately
been arrested on a charge of a crime relating to the Customs;
or (d) in order to prevent [or aid in preventing] the arrest of one M.N., who
had then lately (state the crime committed by M.N. as i% an indictment);