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3. Act in pursuance of conspiracy unnecessary.

4. An act of either is that of all.

5. Husband and wife.

6. Prosecution may be joint or several.

7. Punishment not imposed for conspiracy and offense both.

8. Trivial offense.

9. First degree-Punishment.

10. Second degree-Punishment.

CHAPTER XXX.

OBSTRUCTING AND PERVERTING THE COURSE OF JUSTICE.

SECTION 1. 2. 3. Escape.

4. Rescue.

5. Aiding in escape or rescue.

6. Officer permitting escape.

7. Suffering escape by negligence-Refusing to recieve a prisoner.

8. Refusal to serve process.

9. Refusing assistance to an officer.

10. Rescue of goods.

11. Pretending to be an officer.

12. Compounding for offenses.

13. Preventing or suppressing evidence.

14. Threats and intimidation.

15. Corruptly influencing jurors.

16. Bribery of a public officer.

17. Receiving a bribe.

18. Contempt-Summary proceeding.

CHAPTER XXXI.

FORGERY.

SECTION 1. Forgery defined,

2. Writing defined.

3. Making the initials of one's name.

4. Intent to deceive essential.

5. The writing must purport to be that of another.

6. Using the name of a fictitious person.

7. Forged instrument must resemble the genuine, and not be obviously void.

8. Falsely making one's own signature.

9. Forgery to the amount of one hundred dollars-Punishment.

10. Less than one hundred dollars-Punishment.

11. Uttering a forged writing-Punishment.
12. Cancelling a writing.

13. Fraudulently filling a blank.

14. Altering one's own writing.

15. Fraudulently procuring of signature.

16. Falsification of testimony by a magistrate.
17. False certificate of acknowledgement.

18. False record.

19. Second offense.

CHAPTER XXXII.

COUNTERFEITING OF COINS.

SECTION 1. Counterfeiting defined.

2. Diminishing coin.

3. Washing or coloring coin.

4. Uttering defined.

5. Coin defined.

6. Punishment for counterfeiting; and for uttering in confederacy with the counterfeiter.

7. Punishment for uttering or having ten or more pieces in possession with intent to utter.

8. Punishment where the number of pieces in possession is less than ten.

9. Punishment for uttering where the coin was received as genuine by the

utterer.

10. Punishment for making implements for counterfeiting.

11. Punishment for second offense.

CHAPTER XXXIII.

LIBEL.

SECTION 1. Libel defined.

2. Making of a libel defined.

2. Publishing defined.

4. Malice.

5. Truth may be given in evidence.

6. Degrees of making and publishing-how determined.

7. Punishment for making or publishing, in the first degree.

8 Punishment for second degree.

9. Libelling the dead.

10. Libelling a body of persons.

11. Privilege of public officers to publish.
12. Privilege of a witness.

13. Privilege of parties to a suit and counsel.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

AFFRAY.

SECTION 1. Affray defined.

2. Two kinds of affrays.

3. An aggravated affray.
4. Impending violence.

5. Punishment for an aggravated affray.

6. Punishment for an affray not aggravated.

CHAPTER XXXV.

DRUNKENNESS.-BLASPHEMY.-PROFANITY.

SECTION 1. Drunkenness-Punishment.

2. Blasphemy-Punishment..

3. Profanity-Punishment.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

DISTURBING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.-VIOLATING THE SABBATH.

SECTION 1. Disturbing Religious worship-Punishment.

2. Violating the Sabbath-Punishment.

3. Entertaining persons not strangers on the Lord's Day.

4. Civil process executed on the Lord's day void.

5. Public officers to inform of offenses.

6. The Lord's day defined.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

COMMON NUISANCE.

SECTION 1. Common nuisance defined-Examples.

2. Trivial annoyance.

3. Annoyance to particular persons.

4. Obstructing a highway or public place, &c.
5. Reasonable use of a highway.

6. Letting off fireworks.

7. Obscene publications.

8. Degrees-How determined.

9. Punishment for first degree.

10. Punishment for second degree.

11. Forfeiture of lease of house if a bawdy house.

12. Magistrate may issue search warrant for, and destroy obscene books, &c.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

VAGRANTS.-DISORDERLY PERSONS.

SECTION 1. Beggars, idlers, vagrants-How punished.

3. Gamesters, jugglers, fortune tellers, sorcerers, &c-How punished.

3. Where the offender is a minor or a married woman.

CHAPTER XXXIX.

RIOTS AND UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES.

SECTION 1. Unlawful assembly defined.

2. Riots defined.

3. Menacing language or gestures.

4. Concurrence in intent.

5. Tumult and violence, though the persons assembled in a lawful manner.

6 Promoting or aiding at a riot or unlawful assembly.

7. Remaining after order to disperse.

8. Every person present presumed to have notice of an order to disperse.
9. A riot or unlawful assembly having for its object the destruction or injury
of a house, &c-Punishment.

10. A riot or unlawful assembly endangering life, &c-Punishment.

11. Duty of Governors and other officers.

12. Armed force may be called out.

13. Whose orders the armed force is to obey.

14. Persons killed or wounded.

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5. The loser may sue for and recover the thing lost.

6. When officers or other persons may sue for and recover.

7. All notes, bills, conveyances of land, &c, tainted with gaming are void. 8. Both parties competent witnesses.

CHAPTER XLI.

DISTURBING THE QUIET OF THE NIGHT.

CHAPTER XLII.

SUPPRESSION OF DRUNKENNESS.-MANUFACTURE OF IN-
TOXICATING DRINKS.

SECTION 1. Giving, selling, or procuring spirituous liquor for a native-Punishment 2. Manufacturing-Punishment.

3. Selling spirituous liquor without license.

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3. Attacking vessel with intent to plunder.

4. Breaking into vessels with intent to commit felony-maliciously destroying cordage, &c.

5. Buying or receiving stolen gcods.

6. Plundering wrecked vessels-showing false lights, &c,

7. 8. Casting away, setting on fire or otherwise destroying a vessel on the high scas.

9. Setting on fire, burning, casting away or otherwise destroying a vessel within the jurisdiction of the kingdom.

10. Revolt and mutiny.

11. Attempt to revolt and mutiny.

12. Maltreatment of crew.

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