, 1854-05-13

! ecute JHeTeIOr, or not give evidence thereof,
he shall on conviction thereof be imprisoned
in the county Jail for any length of time not
: exceeding one year, or be fined in any sum
7 not exceeding one thousand dollars.
OF OFFENCES AGAINST MORALITY AND DEcEN-
CY.
Sec. ll3. Every person who under prom
Use Of marriage, shall have Illicit carnal in
tercourse with any female of good repute
for chastity, under the age Of twenty one
years shah ba deemed guilty Of seduction
; and upon conviction thereof shall he impris-
oncd in the pcnitcntiary for not more than
ten years nor less than one year, or he i'm
Iprisoncd in the county jail not exceeding
one yrlr, and be fined in any sum not cX-
lcccdins five hundred dollars but no con
yiction shall be had under the provisions Of
this section, on the testimony Of the female
scducel, unsupported by other evidence,
provided that the subsequent inlermarriage
of the parties may be pleaded i'll bar OF L
conviction.
See ia Every person who shall live in
open and notorious adultery or fornicaiion
shall upon conviction thereof he imprisoned
in the county jail not exceeding three
months, or be fined in any SUN not exceed
ing five hundred dollars. or fined only.
Sec ll5 All persons being within the
r degrees Of consanguinty in which marriages
are prohibited, or declared by law TO be in
cestuous and void who knowing such con-
sanguinity shall intcrmurry with each other,
or shall commit adultry, or iornication with
each other, shall be deemed guilty Of incest,
and upon conviction thereof, shall be mpris
Oned in the pentcntiary not more than two
years or imprisoned in the county jail
more than one year, and fined in any sum
not exceeding FIVE hundred dollars.
Sec ll6 If any person who knowingly
has a former husband or wife living, shall
marry another, he or she, shall lie deemed
guilty of the crime of polygamy, and shall
upon conviction thereof be imprisoned in
the peuitcntiary not more than four years
nor less than one year, and be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars :;
Provided, that the provisions Of this section
shall no; extend to any person whose hus-
band or wife shall have been continuously
absent from the other without having been
heard from for the space of five years before
have been divorced.
Sec. III Every person who shall be
guilty of notorious lewdneSs or other public
indecency, upon conviction thereof shall be
imprisoned in the county Jail not exceeding
six months, and be fined in any sum not eX-
ceeding five hundred dollars, or fined only.
Sec lls. Every person who shall print,
publish. sell or distribute any book, or any
pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other
things, containing obscene language or OBJ
scene prints. pictures, figures or deScrip-
tions, or shall introduce into any family,
school or other place Of education, or shall
buy, procure, receive or have in his posses
sion, any such book, pamphlet, ballad, print
ed paper OF other thing, either Tor the pu.-
pose of loan, sale, exhibition or circulation,
or with intent to introduce the same into
any family, school or place Of education, or
: shall expose the same to public view, shall
on conviction thereof be imprisoned in the
county Jail not more than six mouths, or be
fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars.
Sec. II9. If any person not being lawful
y authorized, shall wiIfully dig up, disinter,
remove or convey away any human body,
or the remains thereof, or shall knowingly
\ aid in such disinterment, removal or convey
ing away, every such offender, and every
, person accessory thereto, either before or
after the fact, shall upon conviction thereof
be Imprisoned in the county jail not exceed
ing one year, and he fined not exceeding
, one thousand dollars or fined only.
Evapu ,,npsnn Whn ehnll Wilful-
. ly disfgure, injurc or remove any tombstone,
/, monument, fence, tree or shrubbery around
or within any cemetery, or shall use such
u cemetery for any other purpose than bury
,, ing ground, he shall upon conviction thereof
; be imprisoned in the county jail not exceed
ing six months and be fined in any sum moi
!, exceeding iiYe hundred dollars, or shall be
fined only. 2
= See l2l. Every person who shall cruelty
use, beat, tormelt, overload or overdrive
), any horse, OK, mule or other animal belong
J ing to himself or 10 another, shall upon
! conviction he fined in auy sum not exceed
! ! ing three hundred dollars.
OF OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH.
e Sec 1872 Every person who shall know.
u ingly sell any kind Of diseased, corrupted OF
: unwholesome provisions, whether for meat
IS or drink, without making the same fully
n known TO the buyer, shall on conviction
II thereof be imprisoned in the county jail not
more than one year and befned not exceed
= ing one thousand dollars, or fined only.
n Sec. 1913. Every apothecary, druggist OIL
= other person, who shall sell and deliver any
n arsenic, corrosive sublimate, prussie acid
strychnine or any other active poison, with
r ont having the word poison" and the true
g name thereof in English written or printed
Il upon label attached to the vial, box oil
II parcel containing the same, shall on coEgic
l.. Al. .,