3. Seconds and so-called umpires may pass without punishment, or
according to circumstances, may be imprisoned not exceeding eight days:
shall the duel, however, have been effectuated under unusually
dangerous circumstances, they shall be punished with greater severity,
even to the _consilium abeundi_. The witnesses, spectators,
cartel-bearers, or those in whose house the duel has been allowed to
take place, or who have contributed towards it by other means, shall be
imprisoned from eight to fourteen days.
4. Those who have been guilty of exciting others to fight a duel, shall
suffer the _consilium abeundi_, or in some aggravated cases the simple
or sharper relegation.
5. He who is aware of an appointed duel, shall make it immediately
known to the university magistrate whereupon those concerned in it will
be, without delay, confined to their houses, or, if circumstances
require it, be arrested.
6. After inquiry, reconcilement of the parties is to be attempted; but
if this cannot be effected, both parties must sign a declaration, with
which they must be satisfied. But in both cases must both parties give
their word of honour that they will fight no more during the remainder
of the term of their academical rights of citizenship, and sign the
protocol for that purpose presented by the magistrate of the
university. Whoever refuses to do this shall immediately receive the
_consilium abeundi_; and whoever afterwards breaks his word of honour
and again fights, shall be visited with the sharper relegation, also he
who fights with him.
7. Those students of medicine or surgery, who shall, at any time,
undertake the bandaging for a duel, shall, after the first bandaging
and performing of what was immediately necessary to the wounded,
instantly give information thereof to an authorized surgeon; and if
they fail to do this, they shall, according to the degree of danger of
the wounded, suffer a proportionate imprisonment; and if the case
warrant it, the _consilium abeundi_, or relegation.
8. The punishment for duels between students and persons of another
class, shall be regulated by the principles here laid down, unless
attended with contingencies of particular aggravation.
9. The beadles who have detected duels in the course of the year, and
he of them who through the discovery of appointed duels shall have
contributed the most to the prevention of the fighting of duels, shall
each, according to the evidences and degrees of zeal, receive a reward
of forty, sixty, or eighty gulden,[19] and the academical senate,
through the curator, shall determine the relative sum.
10. The weapons and other things necessary to a duel, which shall be
found upon the place chosen or appointed for a duel, shall be seized,
made useless, and so converted, as much as may be, to the benefit of
the university treasury.
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