PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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PERJURY.

Any person corruptly procuring a witness to commit perjury in any

matter depending in a court of record, or suborning a witness to be

sworn, in pcrpetuam rei memoriam, on being lawfully convict to

forfeit £40, or not having goods to the value, to sufler one year's

imprisonment without bail, and stand one hour in the pillory —

1692, ch. 16, sec. 2, .........

1

Any person convict of wilful and corrupt perjury, by subornation or

otherwise, in a court of record, or in perpetuam rei memoriam, to

forfeit £20, and suffer six months imprisonment without bail, or

not having goods to the value, to be set in the pillory, and have

both ears nailed thereto — 1692, ch. 16, sec. 4, ....

2

No person convict ns aforesaid, to be received ns a witness in any

court of record till such judgment be reversed, in which case he

shall recover damages against the person procuring such judgment,

by action on the case — 1692, ch. 16, sec. 3, 4, .

2

Any person convicted of taking a false oath or affirmation, before a

judge of the elections, touching his right to vote, to suffer as in

case of wilful and corrupt perjury — 1819, ch. 174,

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See Crimes and Punishments.

PETITIONS FOR FREEDOM.

See NEGROES.

PETIT LARCENY.

If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry away, the personal

goods of another, under the value of $5, or shall break into a shop,

&c. not contiguous to or used with any mansion-house, and steal

money, goods, &c. under the value of $1, the same course of trial

shall be had as for other simple larcenies; the person convicted

shall be deemed guilty of petit larceny, shall restore the goods

stolen, or pay the value, and shall be confined in the penitentiary

not less than three months nor more than one year — 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 6, ...........

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PETIT TREASON.

Persons charged with petit treason to be indicted, &c. and punished as

in other cases of murder according to the degree — 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 3, ...........

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PILOTS.

A board appointed to examine persons desiring to be admitted as pilots

—1803, ch. 63, sec. 2, ........

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Such persons to produce certificates from their county courts of ho-

nesty, &c and to pay the fees therein established — 1803, ch. 63,

sec. 2, ...........

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The board. empowered to grant one of three kind of warrants, accord-

ing to the qualification — 1803, ch. 63, sec. 2,

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