CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

to take gain or profit for his verdict, and the taking
such gain by jurors—confinement, &c. not less than 1
nor more than 6 years, and disqualification to serve on
juries for ever thereafter.  6th.  Wilfully burning, or
attempting or conspiring to burn, any court house, prison,
office, &c. or church, college, &c. or market house,
or aiding therein—death by hanging, or confinement
&c. not more than 15 years.  7th.  Wilfully and maliciously
burning, or attempting or conspiring to burn,
any public arsenal or magazine, or military or naval
stores, or ships, &c.—death by hanging, or confinement,
&c. not less than 3 nor more than 10 years,
    Negro or mulatto slaves convicted of any crime
herein mentioned, (not punishable by hanging,) may
be sentenced to corporal punishment as therein limited,
and also to punishment by transportation and sale, with
the power given to the governor by the act of 1795,
ch. 82,
—Nothing herein to deprive justices of the peace
of their power as to negroes or mulattoes, free or
slaves,
    No conviction or attainder shall work corruption of
blood or forfeiture of estate,
—The estate of such persons as destroy their own
lives, shall descend or vest, as in cases of natural
death,
—If any person be killed by casualty, there shall
be no forfeiture in consequence thereof,
    An approver shall never be admitted in any case,
    A sentence of death shall not be executed in less
than 20 days after the judgment,
    All claims to dispensation from punishment by benefit
of clergy, abolished,
—Persons convicted of any felony, before deemed
clergyable, to be confined, &c. not less than one nor
more than five years, except where otherwise prescribed,
—Persons convicted of any felony before excluded
from the benefit of clergy, and not herein specified,
to be confined, &c. not less than 5 nor more than 20
years,
    Where persons indicted of treason or felony stand
mute, &c. the court shall proceed to trial and judgment,
as if they had pleaded not guilty,
    Directions concerning peremptory challenges, jurors,
&c.

    Any alien, denizen or foreigner, indicted, shall be
tried by a jury of the country in the same manner as a
citizen, and there shall be no challenge to the array
or polls for want of foreigners on the pannel returned,
    Sentence of death to be by hanging by the neck,
    The court to ascertain and declare the periods of
confinement within the periods prescribed,
    If a person be feloniously stricken or poisoned in one
county and die in another within one year, the trial
shall be in the court within whose jurisdiction the
county lies where the stroke or poison was given,
—In like manner an accessary to murder or felony,
shall be tried by the court within whose jurisdiction
the person became accessary,
—On striking, &c. on Chesapeake bay, and death
in any county, or striking in any county, and death on
Chesapeake bay, not within any county, the offender,
and his accessaries, to be tried in the court, &c. where
the death happened, or the stroke or poison was given,
—A person committing any crime, &c. on the
Chesapeake bay, within the state, and not in any county,

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