Article 1—Any Communist who, without having acted any important part in the Communist party or committed any of tne offences specified in Article 2 to 6 of the Provisional Law for the Punishmen Counter-Revolutionists, sur renders himself to justice before detection shall be exempted from punishment.
Article ist wh having committed any of offences enumerated in Articles to 6 of the Provisional Law for the Punishment of Counter-Revolutionists, surrenders himself to Justice before detection shall be: entitled to a reduction of the pro scribed punishment Any Communist who vmmitted by any Communist as will eventually: bed to the arrest of the offender and the seizure of—counter-revolutionary. documents, or any other proof, shall be exempted from punishment or entitled to a remission of the whole or a part of the sentence.
Article 4—Any Communist who, after the detection of a part of his offence, admits the commission of the undetected or remaining part shall be entitled to a reduction of the presented punishment for such remaining part by one-third or one-half, Article 5.—Any offender who has surrendered himself to justice and served one half of the sentence shall be released on security when he behaves well and shows signs of penitence. When a criminal release ed on security under the conditions specified in the last preceding paragraph commits no recidive during the rest of the term, the: remaining portion of the seulonce shall be considered to Ihave husband returned ant been served. security as la referred yo in the last receding Article, a security bond furnished conjointly by more than three guarantors of substantial means shall be filed in the court of first instance for consideration and approval.
Article 7.—A voluntary surrender shall be made in a court of justice or any other governmental institu: tion.
Article 8.—Any Communist who is exempted from punishment under the present law may be admitted to bail according to the provisions of Article 6 or turned over to the reformatory by the court. The rales of the reformatory shall be separately fixed
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.