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Panopticon Bill.
Escape.
36
Penalty for rash or
malicious compulsion.
Art.36. And to the end that the coercive powers
thus given for the security of the public may
not be perverted to purposes of private wantonness
or malice. Be it enacted that any person
who rashly and without probably cause shall
on the pretence of the aforesaid forcibly compel any
such exposure as aforesaid either in the instance
of a person who not having been a Penitentiary
Prisoner has no such mark or who having been
a Penitentiary Prisoner & having such mark
is neither a fugitive nor a deserter as aforesaid
nor upon probable cause suspected of having
committed any such Post-liberation felony as aforesaid
shall on conviction as aforesaid forfeit to
the informer any sum not less than 2 nor
more than 20: and any person who through
wantonness or notice shall so compel any such
exposure, shall in the manner forfeit any sum
not less than 10 no more than £5: and this in
both instances without such convictions being pleadable
in bar with respect to any such further damage
as might otherwise be inflicted or such damages
as might otherwise be recovered in ordinary
course of law.
Art.37.
Identifier: | JB/119/281/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
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