2.  BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the offences herein after mentioned against the government and the
supremacy of the laws, shall be punished in manner following;
that is to say, 1st.  Every person duly convicted of the crime of
high treason against the state, shall suffer death by hanging by the
neck, or be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary-house
therein after mentioned for a period not less than six or
more than twenty years, at the discretion of the court, and shall
be kept therein at hard labour, or in solitude, and shall in all
things be treated and dealt with as is herein after directed.  2d.
Every free negro, mulatto or slave, who shall be duly convicted of
actually raising, and every white person who shall be duly
convicted of actually raising, with any free negro, mulatto or
slave, insurrection or rebellion in this state, shall suffer death by
hanging by the neck; and every free negro, mulatto or slave, who
shall be duly convicted of consulting, conspiring, or attempting to
raise, and every white person who shall be duly convicted of consulting,
conspiring or attempting, with any free negro, mulatto or
slave, to raise, insurrection or rebellion in this state, shall be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary for a period
of time not less than six or more than twenty years, to be
treated in all respects as herein after directed.  3d.  Every person
who shall be duly convicted of the crime of counterfeiting the
great seal of this state for the time being, or the seal of any court,
or any other public seal of this state, and of making use of the
same, or if stealing any of the said true seals, of of unlawfully,
falsely and corruptly, or with evil intent, affixing any of them to
any deed, warrant or writing, or who shall be convicted of having
in his or her possession or custody such counterfeit instrument,
and shall wilfully conceal the same, knowing it to be falsely made
or counterfeited, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in
the said penitentiary for a period of time not less than five nor
more than ten years, to be treated as herein after directed.  4th.
Every person who shall be convicted of having forged and counterfeited
any gold or silver coin, which now is or hereafter shall be
passing or in circulation within this state, or of having falsely uttered,
paid, or tendered in payment, any such counterfeit and forged
coin, knowing the same to be forged and counterfeited, or of
having aided, abetted or commanded, the perpetration of either of
the said crimes, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the
said penitentiary-house not less than four nor more than ten years,
to be treated as herein after directed.

CHAP. 138.

Punishment of offences
affecting
government
I.  Of treason.
 
 
 
 

2.  Of insurrection
of negroes, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3.  Of counterfeiting
public seals.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Of counterfeiting
coin.

Murder of the first
degree.