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the Chesapeake Bay, and within the jurisdiction of the state of Maryland, and not within the body
of any county, or of the crime of feloniously taking and carrying away any negro or other slave, or of
the crime of counselling, hiring, aiding or commanding, any person or persons to commit either of
the said offences, or of the crime of being accessary to either of the said offences, shall restore the
vessel or slave stolen to the owner or owners thereof, or pay him, her or them, the full value thereof,
and also be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary-house for a period of time
not more than twelve years, to be treated as herein after prescribed. 6th. If any person shall felo-
niously steal, take and carry away, the personal goods of another under the value of five dollars, or
if any person shall break into any shop, storehouse, tobacco-house or warehouse, although the same
be not contiguous to, or used with, any mansion-house, and steal any money, goods or chattels,
under the value of one dollar, the same order and course of trial shall be had and observed as for
other simple larcenies, and being thereof convicted, shall be deemed guilty of petty larceny, and shall
restore the goods and chattels so stolen, or pay the full value thereof, to the owner or owners there-
of, and be further sentenced to undergo a similar confinement tor a period not less than three mouths
nor more than one year, under the same conditions as herein alter expressed. 7th. Robbery or
larceny of any obligation or bond, bill obligatory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes, promis-
sory note for the payment of money, lottery ticket, paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or
under the authority of this state or of the United States, or any of them, or of any last will and
testament, or codicil, shall be punished in the same manner as robbery or larceny of goods and
chattels. 8th. Every person who shall be duly convicted of the crime of receiving any stolen money,
goods or chattels, knowing the same to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obliga-
tory, or bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money, lottery ticket, bank note, paper
bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the authority of this state or of the United States, or
any of them, knowing the same to be stolen, shall restore such money, goods or chattels, or thing
taken and received, to the owner or owners thereof, or make restitution to the value of the whole,
or such part as shall not be restored, and shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period
not less than three months nor more than ten years, to be dealt with as herein after directed; and
such receiver may be prosecuted and punished, although the principal offender shall not have been
convicted. 9th. Any person who shall, with a fraudulent intent, employ an artist to engrave or etch
any plate, in imitation of the note or notes of any established bank within this state, or of any bank
which may hereafter be established within this state, or which is or may be established by law in any
of the United States, or any person engaged in engraving or etching such plate or plates, or any per-
son in any manner engaged in striking impressions from such plate or plates, or any person who shall
affix to such note or notes, fraudulent or forged, signatures, or any person who shall, with fraudulent
intent, be engaged in manufacturing of, or furnishing paper in imitation of, any paper used for striking
impressions of notes upon by any established bank within this state, or any bank which may hereafter
be established within this state, or which is or may be established by law in any of the United States,
or any person who shall be in any manner concerned in the altering, forging or counterfeiting, any
note of any bank now existing within this state, or of any bank which may hereafter be established
within this state, or any person who may pass within this state forged or counterfeited note or notes,
knowing them to be such, purporting to be the genuine notes of a bank regularly constituted within
this state by the United States, or within any of them, or any person who may pass as genuine any
note, purporting 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 pe-
riod not less than five nor mure than ten years, to be treated as herein directed. 10th. Any per-
son 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 obli-
gatory, 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, 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 herein after mentioned.
VII. AND DE 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 far a period not less than one year nor more than nine years;
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