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Leasing-making, etc. (Scotland) Act 1837

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Year1837
Anno Regni GULIELMI IV. Britanniarum Regis,Septimo. An Act for amending an Act of His late Majesty, for restricting the Punishment of Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, inScotland .

(7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict.) C A P. V.

[18th March 1837]

'WHEREAS an Act was passed in the Sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King the Fourth, intituledAn Act for restricting the Punishment of Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, in Scotland; whereby, upon a Recital ‘that it is expedient that the Punishment of the Crimes of Leasing-making, Sedition, and Blasphemy, as known in the Law of Scotland , should be restricted, and that these Crimes should be punished in the same Manner as such Crimes would be punished if committed in England ,’ it was (among other Things) enacted, ‘that if any Person shall henceforth be convicted of any of the aforesaid Crimes, such Person shall be liable to be punished only by Fine and Imprisonment, or both, at the Discretion of the Court before which such Person shall be tried’; and it was by the said recited Act further enacted, ‘that if any Person after being so convicted shall offend a Second Time, and be thereof lawfully convicted, such Person may, on such Second Conviction, be adjudged, at the Discretion of the Court, either to suffer the Punishment of Fine or Imprisonment, or both, or to be banished from the United Kingdom and all other Parts of His Majesty's Dominions for such Term of Years as the Court in which such Conviction shall take place shall order’: And whereas an Act was passed in the Eleventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth and First Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled George , whereby so much and such Parts of the said Act of the Sixtieth Year of the Reign of His said Majesty KingGeorge the Third as related to the Sentence of Banishment for the Second Offence was...

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