Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and presentBeatty, Kenneth James
History
Human Leopards : $b an account of the trials of Human Leopards before the Special Commission Court; with a note on Sierra Leone, past and present
Beatty, Kenneth James
Cannibalism; Ethnology -- Sierra Leone; Leopard men; Sierra Leone -- History
(2) If any person in whose case an expulsion order has been made is at
any time found within the Colony or Protectorate in contravention of the
order, he shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or
without hard labour, for a term not exceeding ten years.
(3) Any person aiding or attempting to aid any person, in whose case an
expulsion order has been made, to return to the Colony or Protectorate,
and any person harbouring such person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour
and shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment, with or without
hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years.
[Sidenote: Definition of unlawful society.]
[Sidenote: No. 17 of 1912.]
12. The expression “unlawful society” has the same meaning as in the
Human Leopard and Alligator Societies Amendment Ordinance, 1912.
[Sidenote: Extent of Ordinance.]
13. This Ordinance shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate.
[Sidenote: Duration of Ordinance.]
14. This Ordinance shall continue in force until the expiration of one
year next after the commencement thereof: Provided that the expiration
of this Ordinance shall not affect the validity of anything done in
pursuance of this Ordinance, and any person convicted under this
Ordinance may be punished as if this Ordinance continued in force, and
all prosecutions and other legal proceedings pending under this
Ordinance at the time of the expiration thereof may be carried on,
completed and carried into effect, and the sentences carried into
execution as if this Ordinance had not expired.
* * * * *
SCHEDULE. (Section 4.)
Whereas by a commission dated the day of and issued under and
by virtue of the Special Commission Court Ordinance, 1912, you have been
appointed Special Commissioners to form a Special Commission Court for
the trial in manner provided by the said Ordinance of persons committed
for trial before the Court of the for offences, in connection
with unlawful societies;
And whereas the persons whose names are set out in the Schedule hereto
have been committed for trial before the Court of the for
offences in connection with unlawful societies;
Now I, , Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Sierra
Leone, hereby assign to you the said Special Commissioners the duty of
sitting at in the Protectorate (_or Colony_) of Sierra Leone, and
of there, without a jury and not assisted by any native chief or
non-native or native assessors, hearing and determining, according to
law, the charges made against the persons whose names are set out in the
Schedule hereto, and of doing therein what to justice appertains, and
this shall be to you a sufficient warrant in that behalf.
Given under my hand this day of
To
Governor.
SCHEDULE
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