PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.
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judge with such intent, to be deemed guilty of bribery, and on con-
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viction confined, &c. not less than two nor more than twelve years.
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5th. Embracery, by procuring a juror to take gain or profit for his
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verdict, and the taking such gain by jurors — confinement, &c. not
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less than one nor more than six years, and disqualification to serve
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on juries forever thereafter. 6th. Wilfully burning, or attempting
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or conspiring to burn, any court-house, prison, office, &c. or
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church, college, &c. or market-house, or aiding therein — death by
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hanging, or confinement, &c. not more than fifteen years. 7th.
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Wilfully and maliciously burning, or attempting or conspiring to
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burn, any puhlic arsenal or magazine, or military or naval stores,
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or ships, &c. — death by hanging, or confinement, &c. not less than
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three nor more than ten years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8, .
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Negro or mulatto slaves convicted of any crime herein mentioned, (not
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punishable by hanging,) may be sentenced to corporeal punishment
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as therein limited, and also to punishment by transportation and
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sale, with the power given to the governor by the act of 1795,
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ch. 82,— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 9, .......
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No slave to be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
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—1818, ch. 197, ..........
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Nothing herein to deprive justices of the peace of their power as to
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negroes or mulattoes, free or slaves — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 9, .
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No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture
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of estate— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, ......
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The estate of such persons as destroy their own lives, shall descend or
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vest, as in cases of natural death — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10,
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If any person be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture in con-
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sequence thereof— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, .
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An approver shall never be admitted in any case — 1809, ch. 138,
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sec. 10, ...........
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A sentence of death shall not be executed in less than twenty days after
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the judgment— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, .
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All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit of clergy, abol-
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ished— 1809. ch. 138, sec. 11, .......
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Persons convicted of any felony, before deemed clergyable, to be con-
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fined, &c. not less than one nor more than five years, except where
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otherwise prescribed — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 11,
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Persons convicted of any felony before excluded from the benefit of
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clergy, and not herein specified, to be confined, &c. not less than
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five nor more than twenty years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 11,
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Where persons indicted of treason or felony stand mute, &c. the court
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shall proceed to trial and judgment, as jf they had pleaded not
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guilty— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 12, .......
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Directions concerning peremptory challenges, jurors, &c. — 1809, ch.
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138, sec. 13, p. 583 ; sec. 14, p. 584 ; 1816, ch. 45, .
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Any alien, denizen or foreigner, indicted, shall be tried by a jury of
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tfie country in the same manner as a citizen, and there shall be no
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challenge to the array or polls for want of foreigners on the pannel
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returned — 1809, ch. 139, sec. 15,
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