[44 Vict.]
Protection of Person and Property {Ireland).
BILL
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The better Protection of Person and Property in Ireland.
a.d.
issi.
BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 5 1.(1.)
Any person who is declared by warrant of the Lord Lieu-Power of tenant to be reasonably suspected of having either before or after **0Ti Jfeu~ the passing of this Act been guilty as principal or accessory of high arrest and treason, treason-felony, or treasonable practices, wherever com-
detain« mitted, or of any crime punishable by law committed in a pre-10 scribed district, being an act of violence or intimidation, or the
inciting to an act of violence or intimidation, and tending to interfere with or disturb the maintenance of law and order, may be arrested in any part of Ireland and legally detained during the continuance of tbis Act in such prison in Ireland as may from time 15 to time be directed by the Lord Lieutenant, without bail or main-
prize ; and shall not be discharged or tried by any court without the direction of the Lord Lieutenant; and every such warrant shall be conclusive evidence of all matters therein contained, and of the jurisdiction to issue and execute such warrant, and of the 20 legality of the arrest and detention of the person mentioned in such
warrant.
(2.)
Any person detained in pursuance of a warrant under this Act shall be treated as a person accused of crime and not as a convicted prisoner.
25 (3.)
A list of all persons for the time being detained in prison
under this Act, with a statement opposite each person's name of the prison in which he is detained for the time being, and of the ground stated for his arrest in the warrant under which he is detained, shall be laid before each House of Parliament within
[Bill 79.]
