PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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Duty of magistrates as to recognizances, &c. — 1805, ch. 82, sec. 2,

611

Candidates, or other persons, giving any reward, &c. or keeping or suf-

fering to be kept any booth, &c. on the day of an election, to be

punished by fine and imprisonment — 1805, ch. 97, sec. 29, .

525

See Bribery.

Persons committing any crime, &c. upon the Chesapeake bay, within

the state, and without the body of any county, may be indicted and

tried in the county where they are apprehended or first brought —

1807, ch. 165, ..........

560

The prosecution may be removed after indictment, by suggestion, on

affidavit, that a fair trial cannot be had, &c. — 1807, ch. 165, .

660

In all criminal prosecutions against any negro or mulatto slave, or

against any mulatto descended from a white woman, or against any

negro or mulatto free or freed, the testimony of any negro or mu-

latto slave, or of any mulatto descendant from a white woman, or

of any negro or mulatto free or freed, may be received in evi-

dence for or against them — 1808, ch. 81, .....

564

Acts concerning the admission of Quakers, &c. to make their affirma-

tion as jurors, &c.— 1809, ch. 62, p. 565; 1815, ch. 182,

637

Acts respecting writs of habeas corpus — 1809, ch. 125, p. 568 ; 1813,

ch. 175, ...........

624

See Habeas Corpus.

Jf a person committed for treason or felony plainly expressed in the

warrant, upon his prayer in open court, the first clay of the term,

to be brought to trial, shall not be indicted in the term after such

commitment, the court shall, upon motion, on the last day of the

term, set at liberty the prisoner upon bail, unless it should appear

that the witnesses for the state could not be produced — 1809, ch.

125, sec. 7, ..... ....

571

The offences herein after mentioned against the government and supre-

macy of the laws, to be punished in the manner following :

1st. Treason — death by hanging, or confinement in the penitentiary

not less than 6 nor more than 20 years. 2d. Insurrection or rebel-

lion by free negroes, mulattoes or slaves, and by white persons

with them — death by hanging. Consulting, conspiring, &c. by

such free negroes, &,c. and by white persons with them, to raise

insurrection or rebellion — confinement in the penitentiary not less

than 6 nor more than 20 years. 3d. Counterfeiting the great seal

of the state, or any court, or any other public seal, and using the

same, or stealing any of them, or being in possession and wilfully

concealing them — confinement, &c. not less than 5 nor more than-

10 years. 4th. Forging and counterfeiting any gold or silver coin

in circulation within the state, or falsely uttering the same, or aiding

therein — confinement, &c. not less than 4 nor more than 10 years

—1809, ch. 138, sec. 2, ........

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Murder perpetrated by poison, by lying in wait, by wilful, deliberate,

and premeditated killing, or committed in the perpetration of or

attempt to perpetrate any arson, or to burn any barn, &c. or other

out-house, not parcel of any dwelling-house, having grain, &c.

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