LAWS OF MARYLAND.--1809.

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have been condemned ; but if such person shall be demanded
by the state whence he escaped, he shall be immediately deli-
vered agreeably to such demand.
* The second subdivision was repealed by 1826, ch. 88, sec, 3.
See preceding notes to sec. 6.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the offences herein after
mentioned, affecting public justice or public property, shall be
punished in manner following; that is to say, 1st. Every person
who shall be duly convicted of the crime of perjury, or of sub-
ornation of perjury, shall be sentenced to undergo a confine-
ment in the penitentiary house herein after mentioned for a
space of time not less than five nor more than ten years, to be
treated as herein after directed. 2d. Every person, on being,
duly convicted of wilfully or corruptly embezzling, stealing,
withdrawing, impairing, razing or altering, any will, testament,
codicil, patent, deed, or assignment of a patent, writ, return,
record, or parcel of the same, within this state, whereby the
estate or right of any person shall or may be defeated, injured,
or any ways altered, shall be sentenced to undergo a confine-
ment in the penitentiary for a space of time not less than three
nor more than seven years, to be treated as the law prescribes.

VI. Punish-
ments of
offences
affecting
public jus-
tice or
public
property.

1. Of perju-
ry or subor-
nation of
perjury.

2. Of em.
bezzling,
altering,
&c. any
will, deed,
record, &c.

3d. If any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or
cause to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willing-
ly aid or assist in falsely making, forging or counterfeiting,
any commission, patent or pardon, or any warrant, certifi-
cate, or other public security, whereby money may be drawn
from the treasury of this state, or shall be concerned in printing,
writing, signing or passing, any such forged, counterfeited
warrant, certificate or public security, knowing it to be such,
with intention to defraud any person or persons, every such
person shall be deemed a felon, and, on being convicted thereof,
shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a period not less than two nor more than ten years, to be

3. Of forg-
ing any
commis-
sion, patent
or pardon,
or any
warrant,
certificate,
or other
public secu-
rity.

treated as the law prescribes. 4th. If any judge, or other per-
son concerned in the administration of justice, take any illegal
fee, gift or undue reward, to influence his behaviour in his
office, and if any person shall give any money or thing to any
judge, or other person concerned in the administration of justice,
with intent to influence his behaviour in his office, every such
judge or person shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and on being
convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in
the penitentiary for a term of time not less than two nor more
than twelve years, to be treated as is prescribed by law, and shall

4 Of
bribery of
persons
concerned
in the admi-
nistration of
justice.

be disqualified from holding any office for ever thereafter. 5th.
Every embracer who shall procure any juror to take gain or
profit for rendering his verdict, upon conviction, and every juror
convicted of taking gain or profit for giving his verdict, shall

5. Of bribe-
ry of jurors.