CHAP. 138.

3.  Of forging any
commission, patent
or pardon, or
any warrant, certificate,
or other
public security.
 
 
 
 
 
 

4.  Of bribery of
persons concerned
in the administration
of justice.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5.  Of bribery of
jurors.
 
 
 
 

6.  Of burning, or
attempting or conspiring
to burn, 
any court-house, 
prison, &c. church,
college, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

7.  Of burning or
destroying, or attempting
or conspiring
to burn or
destroy any public
arsenal, magazine,
&c.

less than three nor more than seven years, to be treated as the law
prescribes.  3d.  If any person shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit,
or cause ti be falsely made, forged or counterfeited, or willingly
aid or assist in falsely making, forging or counterfeiting, any
commission, patent or pardon, or any warrant, certificate, or other
public security, whereby money may be drawn from the treasury
of this state, or shall be concerned in printing, writing, signing or
passing, any such forged, counterfeited warrant, certificate or public
security, knowing it to be such, with intention to defraud any
person or persons, every such person shall be deemed a felon, and,
on being convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for a period not less than two nor more
than ten years, to be treated as the law prescribes.  4th.  If any
judge, or other person concerned in the administration of justice,
take any illegal fee, gift or undue reward, to influence his behaviour
in hi office, and if any person shall give any money or thing
to any judge, or other person concerned in the administration of
justice, with intent to influence his behaviour in his office, every
such judge or person shall be deemed guilty of bribery, and on being
convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for a term or time not less than two or more
than twelve years, to be treated as is prescribed by law, and shall
be disqualified from holding any office for ever thereafter. 5th.
Every embracer who shall procure any juror to take gain or profit
for rendering his verdict, upon conviction, and every juror convicted
of taking gain or profit for giving his verdict, shall undergo a
confinement in the penitentiary for a period not less than one year
nor more than six years, and shall be disqualified to serve on juries
for ever thereafter.  6th.  If any person shall wilfully burn, or attempt
or conspire to burn, any court-house, or county or public
prison, or the penitentiary, poor-house, magazine or lazaretto, or
public warehouse, or any other building belonging to this state, or
the different counties, cities or towns, or bodies corporate in this
state, or the office of the clerk or register of any court in this state,
or the state-house of this state, or any public office contained therein,
or any public office in this state of any kind whatever, or church
or house of worship, college, academy or public school-house, engine-house,
market-house, scale-house, watch-house, or public barrack,
such person or persons, and his, her or their aiders, abettors
and counsellors, and each of them, shall suffer death by hanging by the
neck, or be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a period of time not more than fifteen years, to be treated as
the law directs.  7th.  Every person duly convicted of the crime of
wilfully and maliciously burning or destroying, or attempting or
conspiring to burn or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of
provisions, or of military or naval stores, belonging to this state,
or subject to the jurisdiction of this state, or of wilfully and maliciously
burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn
or destroy, any military or naval stores, ship or vessel, belonging
to this state, the United States, or any one of them, shall suffer
death by hanging by the neck, or be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary for a period not less than three nor
more than ten years, to be treated as the law directs.