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Penalty on persons in Ireland administering or taking oaths for seditious purposes. 1.] Any person or persons who at any time after the passing of this Act shall administer or cause to be administered, tender or cause to be tendered, or be present aiding and assisting at the administering or tendering, or who shall by threats, promises, persuasions, or other undue means cause, procure, or induce to be taken by any person or persons in Ireland, upon a book or otherwise, any oath or engagement importing to bind the person or persons taking the same to be of any association, brotherhood, committee, society, or confederacy whatsoever, in reality formed or to be formed for seditious purposes, or to disturb the public peace, or to injure the persons or property of any person or persons whatsoever, or to compel any person or persons whatsoever to do or omit or refuse to do any act or acts whatsoever, under whatever name, description, or pretence such association, brotherhood, committee, society, or confederacy shall assume or pretend to be formed or constituted, or any oath or engagement importing to bind the person taking the same to obey the orders or rules or commands of any committee or other body of men not lawfully constituted, or of any captain, leader, or commander (not appointed by or under the authority of His Majesty, his heirs and successors), or to assemble at the desire and command of any such captain, leader, commander, or committee, or of any person or persons not having lawful authority, or not to inform or give evidence against any brother, associate, confederate, or other person, or not to reveal or discover his or her having taken any illegal oath, or not to reveal or discover any illegal act done or to be done, or not to discover any illegal oath or engagement which may be administered or tendered to him or her, or the import thereof, whether such oath shall be afterwards so administered or tendered or not, or whether he or she shall take such oath or enter into such engagement or not, being by due course of law convicted thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of felony and be transported for life; and every person who shall take in Ireland any such oath or engagement importing so to bind him or her as aforesaid, and being by due course of law thereof convicted shall be adjudged guilty of felony and be transported for seven years.
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