CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

the levy court of any county for collecting the levy
thereof,
    Persons guilty of bribery before or on the day of
elections, to be punished by fine and imprisonment,
See Bribery.
    Persons convicted of crimes committed after the passage
of the act of 1809, ch. 138, and during the suspension,
authorised openly to pray the court that sentence
might be pronounced agreeably to the provisions
of that act; such sentence to be passed by the court
as if committed subsequent to the operation of that act,
    Persons convicted of the misdemeanors therein mentioned,
as to public arms in the militia, subject to fine
and imprisonment not exceeding 60 days,
    Any persons casting, forging or counterfeiting, the
stamp for silver plate in Baltimore, or causing the same,
or stamping any wrought plate, &c. with such forged
stamp, or transposing the real stamp, or offering for
sale or exchange any wrought plate, &c. with such
forged or transposed stamp, knowing the same, or
wilfully being in possession of such forged stamp, shall
on conviction, forfeit and pay $500, and be confined
in the penitentiary not more than 5 nor less than 1
year, and until payment of the forfeiture,

    In cases of felony, the accused to have the right
to challenge the same number of jurors as before the
passage of the act of 1809, ch. 138,
—The parts of that act, inconsistent with this, repealed,
    An act to provide for the administration of justice in
cases of crimes and misdemeanors in the city and precincts
of Baltimore,
—A supplement,
    Any person forging a duel wilfully and maliciously,
&c. and killing his antagonist; or wounding him so
that he die thereof within twelve months and a day,
his aiders, &c. to be on conviction, sentenced to the
penitentiary for not less than 5 nor more than 18 years,
—Any person challenging, or accepting a challenge,
to fight a duel, declared incapable of holding or
being elected to any post of profit, trust or emolument,
civil or military,
—County courts to give this act in charge to the
grand jury, and other acts, &c.
—Any judge or magistrate authorised, on good
cause of suspicion of a duel, to bring the parties before
him, and to take a recognizance for keeping the peace,
&c.
—Persons leaving the state for the purpose of eluding
this law, subject to the like penalties,
—Directions to the executive for their apprehension
and trial,
    Convicts in the penitentiary to be admitted as witnesses,
where persons confined therein, are on trial for
an offence committed while thus confined, both for and
against,
    Provision that no coloured person should be sentenced
to confinement in the penitentiary, on conviction for
any offence, for a term less than one year,
—In such cases, or where the court shall deem the
confinement for one year, or more, to exceed the limits
of justice, they may inflict corporal punishment, or
confinement in the gaol, or both,
    Every person, his aiders, &c. convicted of stealing,
cutting away, &c. any buoy in the Chesapeake, or Patapsco,
placed as therein mentioned, to be sentenced to
confinement in the penitentiary not exceeding seven
years,

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