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UNLAWFUL DRILLING ACT 1819 - SECT 1

Meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose of being trained, or of practising military exercise prohibited.

1.] All meetings and assemblies of persons for the purpose of training or
drilling themselves, or of being trained or drilled to the use of arms, or for
the purpose of practising military exercise, movements, or evolutions, without
any lawful authority from His Majesty, or the lieutenant, or two justices of
the peace of any county or riding, by commission or otherwise, for so doing,
shall be and the same are hereby prohibited as dangerous to the peace and
security of His Majesty's liege subjects and of his government; and every
person who shall be present at or attend any such meeting or assembly for the
purpose of training and drilling any other person or persons to the use of
arms or the practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, or who
shall train or drill any other person or persons to the use of arms, or the
practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, or who shall aid or
assist therein, being legally convicted thereof, shall be liable to be
transported for any term not exceeding seven years, or to be punished by
imprisonment not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court in which
such conviction shall be had; and every person who shall attend or be present
at any such meeting or assembly as aforesaid, for the purpose of being, or who
shall at any such meeting or assembly be trained or drilled to the use of
arms, or the practice of military exercise, movements, or evolutions, being
legally convicted thereof, shall be liable to be punished by fine and
imprisonment not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court in which
such conviction shall be had.

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