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state, of of any bank which may hereafter be established within
this state, or any person who may pass within this state forged
or counterfeited note or notes, knowing them to be such, pur-
porting to be the genuine notes of a bank regularly constituted
within this state by the United States, of within any of them,
or any person who may pass us genuine any note, purporting
to be a note of a bank which does not exist, shall be deemed a
felon, and shall, on being duly convicted thereof, be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period not
less than five nor more than ten years, to be treated as herein
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directed. 10th. Any person who shall falsely make, forge or
counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or
counterfeited, or willingly act or assist in falsely making, forg-
ing, altering or counterfeiting, any deed, will, testament or
codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory
note for the payment of money Or property, endorsement or
assignment of any bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange,
acquittance or receipt for money or property, or any acquit-
tance or receipt either for money or property, with intention to
defraud any person whomsoever, or shall utter or publish as
true, any false, forged, altered or counterfeited deed, will, testa-
tnent or codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, pro-
missory note for the payment of money or property, endorse-
ment or assignment of any bond, writing obligatory, bill of
exchange, acquittance or receipt for money or property, shall be
deemed a felon, and on being thereof duly convicted, shall be
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary for
a period of time not less than five nor more than ten years, to
be dealt with as herein after mentioned.
By 1818, ch. 157, if any free person shall be convicted for having enticed,
persuaded, or assisted, any slave or servant to runaway, &c. or having har-
boured such runaway slave or servant, knowing him to be such, then such
person shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall undergo a
confinement in the penitentiary not exceeding six years.
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10. Of forg-
ing deeds,
wills,
bonds,
notes, &c.
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SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the offences herein after men-
tioned, affecting the public police, shall be punished in manner
following; that is to say, 1st. Whosoever being married, shall,
the first husband or wife, as the case may be, being alive, marry
any person or persons, shall undergo a confinement in the peni-
tentiary for a period not less than one year nor more than nine
years ; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to
any person whose husband or wife shall be continually remain-
ing beyond the seas seven years together, or shall be absent
himself or herself seven years together, in any part within the
United States, or elsewhere, the one of them not knowing the
other to be living at that time ; and if such offender be a man,
his first wife, shall, on his conviction, be forthwith endowed
of one-third part of his real estate, which she shall hold as
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V. Punish-
ments of
offences
affecting
the public
police.
1. Of
polygamy.
Proviso.
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