PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.
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Duty of magistrates as to recognizances, &c. — 1805, ch. 82, sec. 2,
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611
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Candidates, or other persons, giving any reward, &c. or keeping or suf-
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fering to be kept any booth, &c. on the day of an election, to be
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punished by fine and imprisonment — 1805, ch. 97, sec. 29, .
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525
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See Bribery.
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Persons committing any crime, &c. upon the Chesapeake bay, within
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the state, and without the body of any county, may be indicted and
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tried in the county where they are apprehended or first brought —
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1807, ch. 165, ..........
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560
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The prosecution may be removed after indictment, by suggestion, on
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affidavit, that a fair trial cannot be had, &c. — 1807, ch. 165, .
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660
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In all criminal prosecutions against any negro or mulatto slave, or
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against any mulatto descended from a white woman, or against any
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negro or mulatto free or freed, the testimony of any negro or mu-
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latto slave, or of any mulatto descendant from a white woman, or
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of any negro or mulatto free or freed, may be received in evi-
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dence for or against them — 1808, ch. 81, .....
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564
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Acts concerning the admission of Quakers, &c. to make their affirma-
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tion as jurors, &c.— 1809, ch. 62, p. 565; 1815, ch. 182,
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637
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Acts respecting writs of habeas corpus — 1809, ch. 125, p. 568 ; 1813,
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ch. 175, ...........
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624
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See Habeas Corpus.
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Jf a person committed for treason or felony plainly expressed in the
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warrant, upon his prayer in open court, the first clay of the term,
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to be brought to trial, shall not be indicted in the term after such
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commitment, the court shall, upon motion, on the last day of the
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term, set at liberty the prisoner upon bail, unless it should appear
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that the witnesses for the state could not be produced — 1809, ch.
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125, sec. 7, ..... ....
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The offences herein after mentioned against the government and supre-
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macy of the laws, to be punished in the manner following :
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1st. Treason — death by hanging, or confinement in the penitentiary
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not less than 6 nor more than 20 years. 2d. Insurrection or rebel-
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lion by free negroes, mulattoes or slaves, and by white persons
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with them — death by hanging. Consulting, conspiring, &c. by
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such free negroes, &,c. and by white persons with them, to raise
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insurrection or rebellion — confinement in the penitentiary not less
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than 6 nor more than 20 years. 3d. Counterfeiting the great seal
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of the state, or any court, or any other public seal, and using the
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same, or stealing any of them, or being in possession and wilfully
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concealing them — confinement, &c. not less than 5 nor more than-
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10 years. 4th. Forging and counterfeiting any gold or silver coin
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in circulation within the state, or falsely uttering the same, or aiding
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therein — confinement, &c. not less than 4 nor more than 10 years
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—1809, ch. 138, sec. 2, ........
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Murder perpetrated by poison, by lying in wait, by wilful, deliberate,
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and premeditated killing, or committed in the perpetration of or
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attempt to perpetrate any arson, or to burn any barn, &c. or other
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out-house, not parcel of any dwelling-house, having grain, &c.
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325
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