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fraudulent or forged signatures, or fraudulently manufacturing or
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furnishing paper, &c. or being concerned in the altering or forging
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any bank note, or knowingly passing the same, or passing as ge-
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nuine a note purporting to be of a bank which does not exist —
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confinement, &.c. not less than five nor more than ten years. 10th.
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Forging or counterfeiting any deed, will, &c. bond, receipt, &c. with
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intention to defraud or assisting therein, or uttering or publishing
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as true such deed, &c. — deemed felony, and punished by confine-
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ment, &c. not less than five nor more than ten years — 1809, ch.
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138, sec. 6, ..........
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576
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The offences herein after mentioned, affecting the public police, to be
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punished in manner following :
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1st. Bigamy — confinement, &c. not less than one nor more than nine
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years — with exception in cases of absence therein mentioned —
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consequences as to property. 2d. Keeping gaming tables, (except
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billiard tables) or banks, with permission to bet against them, or
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strolling about, and deriving a support chiefly from horse racing or
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gaming — confinement, &c. not less than three months nor more
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than two years. 3d. Wilful importation by commanders of vessels
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from any foreign country of any felon convict or slave, or the
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bringing in by any person by land or water, from any foreign coun-
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try, any negro or mulatto, with intent to dispose of such negro, &c
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as a slave — confinement, &c. not less than one nor more than five
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years. 4th. Any person apprehended having on him any picklock
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&c. wilh intent to break into any dwelling-house, &c. or any wea-
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pon with intent feloniously to assault, or found in and about the
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same with intent to steal, to be deemed a rogue and vagabond, and
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on conviction sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary not less
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than three months nor more than two years. 5th. Any person be
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fore condemned to labour as a criminal, escaping and found in this
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state, to be deemed a fugitive felon, and on conviction by recon
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from another state, to be confined, during the residue of the term
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&c. but if demanded by the other state, to be delivered up — 1809
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ch. 138, sec. 7, .........
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579
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The offences hereinafter mentioned, affecting public justice, to be pun
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ished in manner following :
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1st. Perjury or subornation of perjury — confinement, &c. not less than
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five nor more than ten years. 2d. Embezzling, stealing, rasing, &c
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any will, patent, deed, &c. record, or parcel thereof, within the
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state, whereby any right may be defeated — confinement, &c. not
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less than three nor more than seven years. 3d. Forging or coun-
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terfeiting, or causing or aiding in counterfeiting, any commission,
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patent or pardon, or any warrant, &c. whereby money may be
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drawn from the treasury, or being knowingly concerned in print
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ing, writing, &.c. such forged warrant with intention to defraud—
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confinement, Sec. not less than two nor more than ten years. 4th
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Any judge, or other person concerned in the administration of jus-
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lice, taking any illegal fee, gift or undue reward, to influence his
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behaviour in office, and every person giving money, &c. to any
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