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EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
or permitting any person to bet against the said bank, or of strolling
about the country from place to place, and deriving a support
and maintenance chiefly from horseracing or gaming, shall be
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary for a
period not less than three months nor more than two years, to be
dealt with as the law directs (a). 3d. Every commanding officer,
captain or master, of any vessel, who shall be duly convicted of
wilfully importing the same into this state, from any foreign
country, and not any part of the United States, any felon, convict,
or any slave, knowing him or her to be such, and every person
duly convicted of bringing into this state, by land or water, any
negro or mulatto from any foreign country, not a part of the United
States, with intent to sell and dispose of such negro or mulatto within
this state as a slave, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the said penitentiary for a period of time not less than one year
nor more than five years, to be treated as herein after directed.
4th. If any person shall be apprehended, having upon him or her
any picklock, key, crow, jack, bit or other implement, with an intent
feloniously to break and enter into any dwelling-house, warehouse,
stable or out-house, or shall have upon him or her any pistol,
hanger, cutlass, bludgeon or other offensive weapon, with intent
feloniously to assault any person, or shall be found in or upon
any dwelling-house, warehouse, stable or out-house, or in any enclosed
yard or garden, or area belonging to any house, with an intent
to steal any goods or chattels, every such person shall be
deemed a rogue and vagabond, and, on being duly convicted thereof,
shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary
for a period of time not less than three months nor more than
two years, to be treated as the law prescribes. 5th. Any person
who has been convicted and condemned to serve and labour as a
criminal, and who may escape and be found in this state, shall be
deemed a fugitive felon, and being thereto convicted by a duly authenticated
record from the court of the state in which such conviction
and condemnation took place, shall be sentenced to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary of this state for and during the
residue of the term for which such person shall have been condemned;
but if such person shall be demanded by the state whence he
escaped, he shall be immediately delivered agreeably to such demand.
(a) See 1803, ch. 75. |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
3. Of importing felons,
convicts, or
slaves.
4. Of rogues and
vagabonds.
5. Of fugitive felons. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the offences herein
after mentioned,
affecting public justice or public property, shall be punished
in manner following; that is to say, 1st. Every person who shall
be duly convicted of the crime of perjury, or of subornation of perjury,
shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary-house herein
after mentioned for a space of time not less
than five nor more than ten years, to be treated as herein after
directed. 2d. Every person, on being duly convicted of wilfully
or
corruptly embezzling, stealing, withdrawing, impairing, razing
or altering, any will, testament, codicil, patent, deed, or assignment
of a patent, writ, return, record, or parcel of the same, within
this state, whereby the estate or right of any person shall or may
be defeated, injured, or any ways altered, shall be sentenced to undergo
a confinement in the penitentiary for a space of time not |
VI. Punishments
of offences affecting
public justice
or public property.
1. Of perjury or
subornation of
perjury.
2. Of embezzling,
altering, &c. any
will, deed, record,
&c. |
