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38. Be it further enacted. That if any person or persons,
shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, resist or oppose
any officer of this Territory, in serving or attempting
to serve or execute any original, mesne or final process
or warrant, or any rule or order, of any of the courts
of the Territory, or any other legal or judicial writ, or
process whatsoever, or shall assault, beat or wound any
afficer, or other person duly authorized, in serving or executing
any writ, rule, order, process or warrant aforesaid,
every person so knowingly and wilfully offending,
in the premises, shall on conviction thereof be imprisoned,
not exceeding twelve months, and fined not exceeding
three hundred dollars.
39. Be itfurther enacted, That, if any person or persons
agree, or compound \o take satisfaction for any
criminal offence, such person or persons shall forfeit
twice the value of the sum or thing agreed for or taken,
but no person shall be debarred from taking his goods or
property from he thief provided he prosecutes such thief.
40. Be it further enacted, That no person shall take upon
himself to exercise, or officiate, in any office or place
of authority in this Territory, -without being lawfully authorized
thereto, and if any person shall presume so to do,
he shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
41. Be> it further enacted, That^ riots, routs, and'unlawTul
assemblies, shall be punished by fine at the discre-
tion of a jury.
42. Be it further enacted, That, if any person or persons,
within this Territory, being married, or who shall
hereafter marry, do at any time marry, any person or persons,
the former husband or wife, being alive, upon conviction*
thereof, shall b»whipped on his or her bare back,
not less than one hundred stripes welj laid on ; be fin^d in
not less 1
than one hundred, nor more than five hundred
dollars, to and for the.use of the^party injjjflred, and imprisoned
not less than six, nor more than twelve months, and
therijafter be rendered infamous ; be incapable of giving
testimony, or holding any commission civil or military in
this Territory And the party and parties so offending
shall receive such like proceedings, trial' and execution
within this Territory, as if the offence toad been committed
in the countv, where such person shall be taken or apprehended.
Provided, that, nothing herein contained
shall extent) to any person or persons, whose husband or
wife shall be continually remaining beyond the seas, for
the space of seven years together, or whose husband or
wife shall absent him or herself, the one from the other for
the space of seven years together in any part of the United
States of America, or elsewhere, the one of them not
knowing the other of them to be living within that time.
Provided, also, that nothing herein contained, shall extend