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TUMULTUOUS RISINGS (IRELAND) ACT 1831 - SECT 3

Persons printing or sending inflammatory or threatening notices or letters, &c., shall be liable to imprisonment.

3. If any person or persons shall knowingly print, write, post, publish,
circulate, send, or deliver, or cause or procure to be printed, written,
posted, published, circulated, sent, or delivered, any notice, letter, or
message exciting or tending to excite any riot, tumultuous, or unlawful
meeting or assembly, or unlawful combination or confederacy, or threatening
any violence, injury, or damage, upon any condition or in any event, or
otherwise, to the person, or property, real or personal, of any person
whatever, or demanding any money, arms, weapons or weapon, ammunition or other
matter or thing whatsoever, or directing or requiring any person to do or not
to do any act, or to quit the service or employment of any person, or to set
or to give out any land, every person so offending shall be liable to be ...
imprisoned, ... for any term not exceeding three years ....

Ss.47 rep. by 1914 c.58 s.44(2) sch.4; 1953 c.14 (NI) s.1(2); 1953 c.18 (NI)
s.48 sch.5; 1968 c.28 (NI) s.14 sch.3


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