| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
10. Of forging
deeds, wills, bonds,
notes, &c. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
to be a note of a bank which does not exist, shall be deemed
a felon, and shall, on being duly convicted thereof, be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period not less than
five nor more than ten years, to be treated as herein directed. 10th.
Any person who shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit, or cause
or procure to be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly
act or assist in falsely making, forging, altering or counterfeiting,
any deed, will, testament or codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill
of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money or property,
endorsement or assignment of any bond, writing obligatory,
bill of exchange, acquittance or receipt for money or property, or
any acquittance or receipt, either for money or property, with intention
to defraud any person whomsoever, or shall utter or publish
as true, any false, forged, altered or counterfeited deed, will, testament
or codicil, bond, writing obligatory, bill of exchange, acquittance
or receipt for money or property, shall be deemed a felon,
and on being thereof duly convicted, 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 dealt with as hereinafter
mentioned. |
V. Punishments
of offences affecting
the public police.
1. Of polygamy.
2. Of keeping E. O.
or other gaming
table, billiard
tables excepted &c. |
7. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the offences herein
after mentioned,
affecting the public police, shall be punished in manner following;
that is to say, 1st. Whosoever being married, shall, the
first husband or wife, as the case may be, being alive, marry any
person or persons, shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a period not less than one year nor more than nine years; Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall extend to any person
whose husband or wife shall be continually remaining beyond the
seas seven years together, or shall be absent himself or herself
seven years together, in ay part within the United States, or
elsewhere, the one of them not knowing the other to be living at
that time; and if such offender be a man, his first wife shall, on
his conviction, be forthwith endowed of one third part of his real
estate, which she shall hold as tenant in dower, the assignment of
which shall be made as prescribed by law in other cases of dower,
and she shall have the like remedy for the recovery thereof; and
she shall also, on his conviction, be forthwith entitled to one third
part of his personal estate, in the same manner as if such husband
had died intestate and she had survived him, which third part shall
be divided and allotted to her in the same manner as distribution is
made of the personal estate of intestates; and if the said offender be
a man, he shall, on conviction, forfeit his claim or title as tenant
by the curtesy, and also all his claim or title to any estate, personal
or mixed, which he may have in right of his first wife; and
if the said offender be a woman, she shall, on conviction, forfeit
her claim to dower of the estate of her first husband, and also her
distributory share of his personal estate, which she would be entitled
to if he had died intestate, and she had survived him. 2d.
Every person who shall be duly convicted of keeping any E O
table, or any other kind of gaming table, billiard-tables excepted,
at which the games of Pharo, Equality, or any other game of chance
shall be played for money, or of keeping any bank, and inducing |
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