(2) In a proclaimed district it shall be lawful for a District Commissioner to order the arrest and detention in custody of any person whose arrest and detention he may consider desirable in the interests of justice. A warrant under the hand of a District Commissioner shall be sufficient authority to the person named therein to detain any such person in such place as shall be mentioned therein. [Sidenote: No. 28 of 1909.] 3. For the words “the/any Human Leopard Society and/or Alligator Society” wherever they occur in the Human Leopard and Alligator Societies Ordinance, 1909 (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), shall be substituted the words “any unlawful society.” [Sidenote: Unlawful societies.] 4.—(1) Every person who knowingly— (_a_) is or has before the commencement of this Ordinance been a member of an unlawful society; or (_b_) takes or has before the commencement of this Ordinance taken part in the operations of an unlawful society or of any meeting thereof, shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding fourteen years. (2) A Magistrate or District Commissioner on sworn information may authorize any member of the Sierra Leone Police Force or West African Frontier Force or a court messenger to search any person whom there is good reason to suspect of being a member of an unlawful society or of having taken part in the operations of an unlawful society, or of any meeting thereof, and for this purpose may authorize any of the afore-mentioned persons to enter any premises at any time and, if need be, by force, on Sundays as well as on other days; and if any person wilfully hinders, molests or obstructs any of the aforesaid persons in searching such suspected person, every such person shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months. 5. For Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance shall be substituted the following section:— [Sidenote: Power of Governor-in-Council to order deportation.]