ARMS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ARRAY
 
 
 

ARREST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

ARSENAL
 
 

ARSON

    Penalty on officers or soldiers disposing of public
arms,
    Satisfaction to be awarded in case of loss of arms,
    Penalty on militia men or others buying, selling, or
giving any public arms,
    Penalty on non-commissioned officers or privates
armed by the public, having their arms, &c. out of order,
    Directions for the examination and report of arms,
    Power of the governor and council as to the arming
of cavalry as mounted infantry, and artillery as flying
artillery, and furnishing arms, &c.
    The agents appointed by the governor and council
directed to call on person in possession of public arms,
or having disposed of them, to deliver or account for
them,
—Fine on refusal, to be recovered by warrant, under
the direction of the agent, and when received accounted
for to the governor, and deposited in the treasury,

    The right to challenge the array or polls, &c. not taken
away by the act concerning crimes and punishments,
    No challenge allowed for want of foreigners on the
pannel or jury returned,

    No inhabitant to be arrested out of the county where
he resides for debt, &c. by any capias, 'till the return
of non est, from his county,
—On such an arrest, the plaintiff to suffer a non suit,
or if execution, the person to be discharged,
—But not to extend to persons absconding from justice
in the county where they live, who may be arrested
in any county,
    A person arrested on attachment or capias, and permitted
by the sheriff, &c. to go at large, may be again
arrested before the return day, or during the term, in
virtue of the same process, in order to be produced before
the court,
—Such second arrest to be available at the first, with
the same power to detain or hold to bail,
    No officer, non commissioned officer or private, of
the militia, in his attendance at, going to, or returning
from, muster, shall be subject to arrest for any civil
matter,
    A sheriff, &c. having arrested any person on an attachment,
a capias ad respondendum, or a capias ad satisfaciendum,
and dying before the return day of the sheriff,
for the time being, may, on the same writ, again arrest
the same person as if not before taken,

    Punishment for burning.  See Arson.  Crimes.
    A lottery authorised for building an Arsenal for the
city of Baltimore,

    Murder committed in the perpetration of, or attempt
to perpetrate arson, &c. considered the first degree,
    Every person convicted of arson, or as being accessary,
to suffer death by hanging, or to be sentenced to
confinement in the Penitentiary not less than 5 nor
more than 20 years,
    Every person, his aiders, &c. convicted of wilfully
burning any mill, distillery, tobacco house, &c. or other
out house, not parcel of any dwelling house, being
empty, or with tobacco, &c. therein, or any stack of
grain, &c. to suffer death by hanging, or to be sentenced
to confinement in the Penitentiary not less than 3
nor more than 12 years,
    Every person convicted of burning any ship or other
vessel, of seventeen feet keel or upwards, to be sentenced

May 1813  19  14
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  1813      172  1-2
 
 

  1817      177

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  1809      138    14
  1816        45

  1809      138    15
 

  1801        74    11

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  1811      161      2

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  1813      102      8

  1809      138

  1813      125
 

  1809      138       3
 

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