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judge with such intent, to be deemed guilty of bribery, and on con-

viction confined, &c. not less than two nor more than twelve years.

5th. Embracery, by procuring a juror to take gain or profit for his

verdict, and the taking such gain by jurors — confinement, &c. not

less than one nor more than six years, and disqualification to serve

on juries forever thereafter. 6th. Wilfully burning, or attempting

or conspiring to burn, any court-house, prison, office, &c. or

church, college, &c. or market-house, or aiding therein — death by

hanging, or confinement, &c. not more than fifteen years. 7th.

Wilfully and maliciously burning, or attempting or conspiring to

burn, any puhlic arsenal or magazine, or military or naval stores,

or ships, &c. — death by hanging, or confinement, &c. not less than

three nor more than ten years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8, .

581

Negro or mulatto slaves convicted of any crime herein mentioned, (not

punishable by hanging,) may be sentenced to corporeal punishment

as therein limited, and also to punishment by transportation and

sale, with the power given to the governor by the act of 1795,

ch. 82,— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 9, .......

582

No slave to be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary

—1818, ch. 197, ..........

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Nothing herein to deprive justices of the peace of their power as to

negroes or mulattoes, free or slaves — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 9, .

583

No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture

of estate— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, ......

533

The estate of such persons as destroy their own lives, shall descend or

vest, as in cases of natural death — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10,

583

If any person be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture in con-

sequence thereof— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, .

583

An approver shall never be admitted in any case — 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 10, ...........

583

A sentence of death shall not be executed in less than twenty days after

the judgment— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 10, .

583

All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit of clergy, abol-

ished— 1809. ch. 138, sec. 11, .......

583

Persons convicted of any felony, before deemed clergyable, to be con-

fined, &c. not less than one nor more than five years, except where

otherwise prescribed — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 11,

583

Persons convicted of any felony before excluded from the benefit of

clergy, and not herein specified, to be confined, &c. not less than

five nor more than twenty years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 11,

583

Where persons indicted of treason or felony stand mute, &c. the court

shall proceed to trial and judgment, as jf they had pleaded not

guilty— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 12, .......

583

Directions concerning peremptory challenges, jurors, &c. — 1809, ch.

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

tfie country in the same manner as a citizen, and there shall be no

challenge to the array or polls for want of foreigners on the pannel

returned — 1809, ch. 139, sec. 15,

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