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Alexander's British statutes in force in Maryland. 2d ed., 1912
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818 7 & 8 W. 3, CAP. 3, TREASON.
of the Treasons aforesaid, may be outlawed, and thereby at-
tainted of or for any of the said Offences of Treason, or Mis-
prision of Treason; and in Cases of the High Treasons afore-
said, where by the Law, after such Outlawry, the Party outlawed
may come in, and be tried, he shall, upon such Trial, have the
Benefit of this Act.
IV. And be it further enacted and declared by the Authority
aforesaid, That if Two or more distinct Treasons of divers
Heads or Kinds shall be alleged in one Bill of Indictment,
one Witness produced to prove one of the said Treasons, and
another Witness produced to prove another of the said Trea-
598 sons,* shall not be deemed or taken to be Two Witnesses
to the same Treason, within the meaning of this Act.
V. And to the intent that the Terror and Dread of such
criminal Accusations may in some reasonable time be removed,
be it further enacted, That from and after the said Five and
twentieth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One thou-
sand six hundred ninety six, no Person or Persons whatsoever
shall be indicted, tried, or prosecuted, for any such Treason as
aforesaid, or for Misprision of such Treason, that shall be com-
mitted or done within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of
Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, after the said Five
and twentieth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One
thousand, six hundred ninety-six, unless the same Indictment
be found by a Grand Jury within Three Years next after the
Treason or Offence done or committed.
VI. And that no Person or Persons shall be prosecuted for
any such Treason, or Misprision of such Treason, committed or
done, or to be committed or done, within the Kingdom of
England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed,
before the said Five and twentieth Day of March, unless he or
they shall be indicted thereof within three Years after the said
Five and twentieth Day of March; always provided and ex-
cepted, That if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall be guilty
of designing, endeavouring, or attempting, any Assassination
on the Body of the King, by Poison or otherwise, such Person or
Persons may be prosecuted at any time, notwithstanding the
aforesaid Limitation.
VII. And that all and every Person and Persons, who shall
be accused, indicted, and tried, for such Treason, as aforesaid,
or for Misprision of such Treason, after the said Five and

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