[Inclosure in No.
574.—Translation.]
Law concerning the prolongation of the period of activity of the law of
October 21, 1878, against the endeavors, constituting a common danger,
of the social democracy.
We, William, by the grace of God German Emperor, King of Prussia, etc.,
decree in the name of the Empire, the assent of the Bundesrath and of
the Reichstag having been first obtained, as follows:
Article I.
The duration of the law of October 21, 1878, against the endeavors,
constituting a common danger, of the social democracy (Imperial Law
Gazette, page 351), is hereby prolonged until September 30, 1893.
Article II.
The sections 19 and 22, subdivision 1, are amended as these provisions
are below stated under the figures heretofore used:
Sec. 19. Whoever circulates, continues, or
reprints a prohibited printed document (sections 11, 12), or a printed
document provisionally seized (section 15), is punishable with a
pecuniary fine up to 1,000 marks or with imprisonment up to a year.
It will be considered equivalent to circulation when a prohibited printed
document is exposed or kept ready for the use of persons sojourning
there, in a place of sale, in a drinking saloon, or in any other open
place.
Sec 22. Subdivision 1. Persons who make a
business of agitation in behalf of the endeavors designated in section
1, subdivision 2, shall, in case of conviction for contraventions of
sections 17 to 20, be punished with imprisonment of not less than two
years. In addition to the imprisonment the admissibility of limitation
of sojourn may be adjudged.
Article III.
After the sections 22 and 25 of the law of October 21, 1878, the
following sections, 22a and 25a, shall be inserted:
Sec. 22a. The
admissibility of the limitation of sojourn under the conditions and with
the effects provided in section 22, subdivision 2 and 3, can be adjudged
when a judgment on the basis of section 129 of the penal code ensues,
and it is established that the condemned has participated in an
association having for one of its purposes and occupations to prevent or
make ineffectual the execution of this law, or of measures of the
administration relating to its execution.
In the above-designated case, as also in the case of section 22,
subdivision 1, when judgment has ensued on account of contravention of
section 19, or participation as a member in a prohibited association
(section 17, subdivision 1), the admissibility of the deprivation of
state citizenship may be also adjudged.
Such judgment confers upon the central authority of the state to which
the condemned belongs the right to declare the latter to have forfeited
his citizenship and to expel him from the territory of the Empire. Such
judgment at the same time confers upon the police authority of the
country the right to limit the sojourn of the condemned under the
conditions and with the effect designated in section 22, subdivisions 2
and 3.
Persons who, pursuant to the foregoing provisions, have been declared to
have forfeited their citizenship in one of the states of the Empire also
lose the same in every other such state, and can not without the assent
of the Bundesrath, re-acquire state citizenship in any state of the
Empire.
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Whoever having, pursuant to the provisions of subdivision 3, been
expelled from the territory of the Empire, shall return to the same
without permission, is punishable with imprisonment of from one month to
three years.
Sec. 25a. The
participation of a German in an assemblage which takes place without the
territory of the Empire for the purpose of promoting the endeavors
designated in section 1, subdivision 2, is punishable with imprisonment.
In addition to imprisonment, the admissibility of deprivation of state
citizenship may be adjudged (section 22a,
subdivision 3 to 5).
In testimony, etc.
Done, etc.
