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8. Every person, his aiders, abettors or counsellors, who shall
be convicted of the crime of wilfully burning any mill, distillery,
manufactory, barn, meat house, tobacco house, stable, warehouse,
I or other out house not parcel of any dwelling house, being empty
or having therein any tobacco, wheat, rye, oats, Indian corn,
barley, flax, hemp, hay, or other country produce, horse or
horses, cattle or goods, wares and merchandise, or of burning
any stack, rick, mow or barrack of hay, fodder, flax, hemp, tan
bark, wheat or other grain, shall, at the discretion of the court,
suffer death, or be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
three nor more than twelve years.

9. Any person who shall maliciously and wilfully attempt to
burn any dwelling house, whether inhabited or not, or any mill,
factory, barn, stable, store house, or other out house, or any stack
of grain, hay, straw or fodder, upon conviction thereof, shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months
nor more than ten years.

ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER, .RAVISH OR ROB.

10. Every person convicted of the crime of an assault with an
intent to rob, murder or commit a rape, shall be sentenced to
confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two years
nor more than ten years.

BIGAMY.

11. Whosoever being married shall, the first husband or wife
(as the case maybe) being alive, marry any person, shall undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary for a period not less than
eighteen months, nor more than nine years; Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall extend to any person whose
husband or wife shall be continually remaining 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 con-
viction, be forthwith endowed of one-third part of his real
estate, which she shall hold as tenant in dower, the assignment
of which shall be made as prescribed by law in other cases of
dower, and she shall, have the like remedy for the recovery
thereof; and she shall also, on his conviction, be forthwith
entitled to one-third part of his personal estate, in the same