“ No charge shall be preferred or sentence imposed or punishment inflicted against any person, for an act, unless such act is expressly made punishable by law in force at the time of its commission The detention of any person not charged with a specific crime or offense and the punishment of any person without lawful trial and conviction are prohibited
any person violating the provisions of this order, shall, upon conviction by a Military Occupation Court, suffer such punishment as the court shall determine. ”

“ In oredr to eliminate from the laws applicable to the people of Korea and the administration thereof, within the territory occupied south of North Latitude 38 degrees, the policies and doctrines which discriminate against and are opperssive to the Korean people, and to restore to the Korean people the rule of Justice and Equality before the law, the following laws, decrees or orders having the force of law are hereby repealde: a. Act of Punishing Political Convicts, Vol 6, Sec 14, P 020 of the General Code of Korea enacted 15 April 1919. ”