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Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, st. 2, c. 5), whereby if twelve or more persons assemble unlawfully, to the disturbance of the peace, and do not disperse within one hour after proclamation by a justice of the peace, sheriff, under sheriff, or may or, they are felons, punishable by penal servitude for life, originally by death