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Persons armed with any offensive weapon, or disguised, or in unusual badge or dress, or denomination, assembling by day or night, a misdemeanor,
fine, imprisonment, corporal punishment, and security.
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II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons from and after the first day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, being armed with any fire arms, firelock, pistol, or any offensive weapon or weapons whatsoever, or having his, her, or their face or faces, body, or bodies, disguised in any manner whatsoever, or wearing any particular badge, dress, or uniform not usually worn by him, her, or them upon his, her, or their lawful occasions, or assuming any particular name or denomination not usually assumed by his Majesty's subjects upon their lawful occasions, shall rise, assemble, or appear by day or by night to the terror of his Majesty's subjects; every person so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted upon indictment, shall be adjudged guilty of an high misdemeanor; and the court, before whom such person or persons shall be tried, shall have power and authority to punish such offender or offenders by fine and imprisonment, and to award pillory, ((a)
) whipping, or other corporal punishment, with security for the future good behaviour of the person or persons so convicted, as in the discretion of the court shall seem meet.
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