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If assembling, wilfully shoot at, maim, or disfigure,
send extorting or threatening letters,
procure to join therein, compel to quit abode or employment, or attempt it,
felony, death.
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[III.(b)
] And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that from and after the first day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy six if any person or persons rising or assembling in manner herein before mentioned, or in any other manner whatsoever save as hereinafter is declared, shall either by day or by night wilfully or maliciously shoot at, maim, or disfigure any person or persons in any dwelling house or other place, or shall knowingly send any letter with or without any fictitious name or names thereto subscribed, demanding any money, fire arms, ammunition, or other thing or things, or threatening to injure the person or property of any of his Majesty's subjects; or if any person or persons shall by gift, promise, or threats procure any of his Majesty's subjects to join in any of the aforesaid offences, or shall unlawfully compel, or by force, threats, or menaces attempt to compel any of his Majesty's subjects to quit his, her, or their habitation, farm, possession, place of abode, or lawful employment, all and every person and persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
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