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ART. 30.] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 243
shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death, or undergo a
confinement in the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months
nor more than twenty-one years.
RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.
163. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of re-
ceiving any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the same
to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obliga-
tory, or bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment of
money, bank note, paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or
under the authority of this State, or of the United States, or any
of them, knowing the same to be stolen, shall restore such money,
goods or chattels, or thing taken and received, to the owner
thereof, or make restitution to the value of the whole, or such
part as shall not be restored, and shall undergo a confinement in
the penitentiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than
ten years; and such receiver may be prosecuted and punished,
although the principal offenders shall not have been convicted.
RELIGIOUS MEETINGS.
164. If any person shall erect, place or have any booth, stall,
tent, carriage, boat, vessel or other vehicle or contrivance what-
ever, for the purpose or use of selling, giving, or otherwise dis-
posing of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors, or any
other articles of traffic, or shall sell, give, barter or otherwise
dispose of any spirituous or fermented liquors, or any other
articles of traffic within two miles of any camp:meeting, or other
place of religious worship, during the time of holding any meet-
ing for religious worship at such place, su6h person, on conviction
before a justice of the peace, for the first offence shall be fined
not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, and stand com-
mitted to jail until the fine and costs are paid; and for the second
offence shall be fined as aforesaid, and be imprisoned not less than
ten nor more than thirty days.
165. If any person shall commit an offence against the pro-
visions of the preceding section, he shall in addition to the penal-
ties therein mentioned, forfeit all such spirituous or fermented
liquors and other articles of traffic, and all the chests and other
things containing the same, belonging to and in the possession
of the person so offending, together with such booth, stall, tent,
carriage, boat, vessel, vehicle or other contrivance or thing pre-
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