| any act or issues any order in the name of a public functionary, will be | | imprisoned for five years, and fined £150. | | | | ARTICLE V.--Any person who voluntarily destroys or abstracts any | | documents, registers, archives, or public documents deposited in public | | offices, or passing through their hands in virtue of their functions as | | government or civic officials, will be imprisoned for two years, and | | fined £150. | | | | ARTICLE VI.--Any person obliterating, damaging, or tearing down | | official notices, orders, or proclamations of any sort issued by the | | German authorities will be imprisoned for six months, and fined £80. | | | | ARTICLE VII.--Any resistance or disobedience of any order given in the | | interests of public security by military commanders and other | | authorities, or any provocation or incitement to commit such | | disobedience, will be punished by one year’s imprisonment, or a fine of | | not less than £150. | | | | ARTICLE VIII.--All offences enumerated in Articles I.-VII. are within | | the jurisdiction of the Councils of War. | | | | ARTICLE IX.--It is within the competence of Councils of War to | | adjudicate upon all other crimes and offences against the internal and | | external security of the English provinces occupied by the German Army, | | and also upon all crimes against the military or civil authorities, or | | their agents, as well as murder, the fabrication of false money, of | | blackmail, and all other serious offences. | | | | ARTICLE X.--Independent of the above, the military jurisdiction already | | proclaimed will remain in force regarding all actions tending to imperil | | the security of the German troops, to damage their interests, or to | | render assistance to the Army of the British Government. | | | | Consequently, there will be PUNISHED BY DEATH, and we expressly repeat | | this, all persons who are not British soldiers and-- | | |