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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
in the said penitentiary-house for a time not less than two nor
more than ten years, under the conditions herein after prescribed.
10th. Every person, his or her counsellors, aiders or abettors,
who
shall be duly convicted of the crime of kidnapping, and forcibly or
fraudulently carrying, or causing to be carried out of this state,
any
free person, or any person entitled to freedom at or after a certain
age, period or contingency, or of arresting and imprisoning any
free person, or any person entitled to freedom at or after a certain
age, period or contingency, with intent to have such
person carried out of this state, shall be sentenced to undergo a
confinement in the said penitentiary-house for a period of time not
less than two nor more than ten years, to be treated as the law
directs.
See 1817, ch. 112. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
10. Of kidnapping
and forcibly and
fraudulently carrying
out of the
state, or imprisoning
with such design,
any free person
or persons entitled
to freedom
at a certain age. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the offences herein
after mentioned,
affecting the limitations, houses or vessels, of individuals, shall
be punished in manner following; that is to say, 1st. Every person
duly convicted of the crime of arson, or as being accessary thereto,
shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death by hanging by the
neck, or be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary-house
herein after mentioned for a period of time not less than five
nor more than twenty years, under the conditions herein after prescribed.
2d. Every person, his or her aiders, abettors or counsellors,
who shall be duly convicted of the crime of wilfully burning
any mill, distillery, manufactory, barn, meat-house, tobacco-house,
stable, warehouse, or other out-house, not parcel of any
dwelling-house, being empty or having therein any tobacco, wheat,
rye, oats, Indian corn, barley, flax, hemp, hay, or other country
produce, horse or horses, cattle or goods, wares and merchandise,
or of burning any stack, rick, mow or barrack of hay, fodder, flax,
hemp, tan-bark, wheat or other grain, shall, at the discretion of
the court, suffer death by hanging by the neck, or to be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary-house for a term
of time not less than two nor more than twelve years, to be treated
as herein after directed. 3d. Every person, his or her
aiders or
abettors, who shall be duly convicted of the crime of wilfully and
maliciously burning any ship or other vessel, of seventeen feet keel
or upwards, whether laden or empty, shall be sentenced to undergo
a confinement in the said penitentiary-house for a period of time
not less than two nor more than twelve years, to be treated as herein
after described. 4th. Every person convicted of the crime of
burglary, or as accessary thereto before the fact, shall restore the
thing taken to the owner or owners thereof, or shall pay him, her
or them, the full value thereof, and be sentenced to undergo a similar
confinement for a period of not less than three nor more than
ten years, under the same conditions as are herein after prescribed.
5th. Every person, his or her aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be duly convicted of the crime of breaking a dwelling house
in the day-time, with intent to commit murder or felony therein, or
of breaking a store-house, warehouse, or other out-house, in the
day or night, with an intent to commit murder or felony therein,
shall be sentenced to confinement in the said penitentiary-house for
a period of time not less than two nor more than ten years, to be |
III. Punishments
of offences affecting
houses or vessels.
1. Of arson.
2. Of burning mills,
distilleries, manufactories,
barns,
&c.
3. Of burning ships
or other vessels of
seventeen feet keel
and upwards.
4. Of burglary.
5. Of breaking
dwelling houses in
day, or store-houses,
&c. in
day or night,
with felonious intent. |
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