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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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ART. 30.] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 235

happening of any event or contingency in the nature of a
lottery, to be lottery tickets.

MAIMING.

120. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be con-
victed of the crime of mayhem, or of tarring and feathering,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten
years nor less than eighteen months. .

121. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be convicted of the crime of cutting out or disabling the
tongue, putting out an eye, slitting the nose, cutting or biting off
the nose, ear or lip, or cutting or biting off or disabling any
limb or member of any person, of malice aforethought, with
intention in so doing to mark or disfigure such person, shall be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
than ten years.

122. If any person shall unlawfully shoot at any person, or
shall in any manner unlawfully and maliciously attempt to dis-
charge any kind of loaded arms at any person, or shall unlaw-
: fully and maliciously stab, cut, or wound any person, or shall
assault and beat any person, with intent to maim, disfigure or
disable such person, or with intent to prevent the lawful appre-
hension or detainer of any party for any offence for which the
said party may be legally apprehended or detained, every such
offender, and every person counselling, aiding or abetting such
offender, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by confine-
ment in the penitentiary for a period not less than eighteen
months and not more than ten years.

MANSLAUGHTER.

123. Every person convicted of the crime of manslaughter,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than ten
years nor less than eighteen months.

MARRYING UNLAWFULLY.

124. If any person shall marry with any person within the
three degrees of direct lineal consanguinity, or within the first
degree of collateral consanguinity, each of the parties so marry-

 

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