Section XVI Penalty for striking or offering to strike superior Officer.

Every Person subject to this Act who shall strike or offer to strike or use any Violence against his superior Officer, being in the Execution of his Office, shall be punished with Death, Penal Servitude, Imprisonment, or such other Punishment as is herein-after mentioned ; and every Person subject to this Act who shall strike or offer to strike or use any Violence against his superior Officer, not being in the Execution of his Office, shall be punished with Penal Servitude or such other Punishment as is herein-after mentioned.