1822 - Edocs
1822 - Edocs
1822 - Edocs
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to any person or persons that are, or shall be at the time of<br />
such marriage? divjreed by lawful authority* or to any<br />
person or persons, where the former marriage hath been,<br />
or hereafter shaii be, by lawful autiiority declared to be<br />
void and of no effect. Nor to any person or persons, for<br />
or by reason of any marriage, had or made, or hereafter<br />
to be had or made within the age of consent.<br />
13. Be it further enacted, That, in ail cases of assault<br />
and battery, tresspass or libel, a prosecutor shall be set at<br />
the foot of the indictment, who shall be liable for costs<br />
upon failure in the prosecution.<br />
4-ii Be it firther enacted, That all cases of murder,<br />
manslaughter, rape, arson, burglary, larceny, horse stealing,<br />
cattle stealing, forgery, counterfeiting, perjury, and<br />
subornation of perjury, bigamy, receiving stolen goods,<br />
fulsfying records, making plates,— shall be deemed and<br />
held to be felonies within this Territory.<br />
15. Be it further enacted, That, all capital punishments<br />
shall be executed, in notless than thirty, nor more<br />
than fifty days after conviction.<br />
46. Be itfurther enacted, That, when any person or<br />
persons who shall be convicted of any offence against any<br />
of the provisions of this act, and sentenced to receive any<br />
number of stripes or lashes, the court passing such sentence<br />
is hereby required, immediately on passing the said<br />
sentence, or as soon thereafter as may be, to administer<br />
to the sheriff an oath, that the number of lashes which the<br />
offender shall have been sentenced to receive, will by him,<br />
be openly and publicly, and well and truly laid on, such<br />
offenders bare back, and that without any favor or affection.<br />
47. Be it further enacted, That, in all cases of imprisonment<br />
for offences under this act, it shall and may be<br />
lawful for the keeper of every prison, to compel the prisoner<br />
to labour at some useful empfoymeut within the prison,<br />
under such directions and regulations, as may from<br />
time to time jbe given by the respective courts, within<br />
their counties.<br />
48. Be it further enacted, That, the property, real and<br />
personal of every person charged under this act, shall be<br />
bound from the time of his arrest, at least $o far' as will<br />
be sufficient to pay to the extent of his condemnation.<br />
49. Be itfurther enacted, That, if any person shall vote<br />
twice at an electron, he shall on conviction thereof bo<br />
fined fifty dollars.<br />
s ]/au be fi necj<br />
two hundred- and fifty dollars, and if by .<br />
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