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Refusing to deliver or declare such arms, as they or any with their privity have,
or hindering,
or refusing discovery, on oath, or, on summons, to appear without cause,
fine and imprisonment or corporal punishment.
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[XVII. ((a)
)] And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every such person or persons, who upon demand or search made for such arms or ammunition as aforesaid shall refuse to deliver up the same as aforesaid, and also to declare and manifest to the justice or justices of the peace, mayor, sheriffs, or other chief magistrates aforesaid, what arms and ammunition he, she, or they, or any other to his, her, or their knowledge, or with his, her, or their privity, have, or shall hinder or disturb the delivery thereof to the said justice or justices of the peace, or other chief magistrate as aforesaid; and also every person and persons, who shall refuse to make discovery upon his, her, or their oath, to be administered by such justice or justices of the peace or other chief magistrate aforesaid, concerning the premises aforesaid, or being summoned by writing under the hand of one or more justice or justices of the peace, whereof notice in writing to be given to him or her, or left at his or her usual place of abode, shall without reasonable cause refuse or neglect to appear before such justice or justices of the peace, or other chief magistrate as aforesaid, to be examined as aforesaid, every such person or persons so offending shall, on being lawfully convicted thereof, be punished by fine and imprisonment, or such corporal punishment of pillory or whipping, as the court, before whom such person or persons shall be tried, shall in their discretion think proper.
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