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quired, he shall be fined not less than seven dollars, nor more than thirty dollars.

SEC. 48. All persons who, after proclamation made as aforesaid, shall unlawfully, routously, riotously and tumultously continue together, or shall wilfully obstruct or hinder any such officer, who shall be known or shall openly declare himself to be such, from making such proclamation, shall be fined a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year; and if any such persons so riotously assembled shall demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down any dwelling-house or other building, ship or vessel, they shall be fined or imprisoned as aforesaid.

SEC. 49. If any person shall wilfully cut, deface or otherwise injure any public building, or fence, or other property belonging to this state, he shall on conviction thereof be fined a sum not less than twice the amount of the damage done, unless that sum shall exceed twenty dollars; if it shall exceed that sum, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

SEC. 50. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully breaking any public or private lamp or lantern, which is already set up or hereafter shall be set up in either of the towns, shall, for every such lamp or lantern so broken, be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 51. Every person of whom an oath or affirmation is or shall be required by law, who shall be convicted of wilfully swearing or affirming falsely, in regard to any matter or thing respecting which such oath or affirmation is or shall be required, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty years.

SEC. 52. Every person who shall be convicted of subornation of perjury, by procuring another to commit perjury, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty years.

SEC. 53. Every person who shall be convicted of endeavoring to incite or procure another to commit perjury, though the person incited do not commit perjury, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 54. In every indictment for perjury or subornation of perjury, or incitement to perjury, it shall be sufficient to set forth the substance of the offence charged upon the defendant, and by what court or before whom the oath or affirmation was taken; avering such court or person to have had competent authority to administer the same, together with the proper averment or averments to falsify the matter wherein the perjury is assigned; without setting forth any part of any

record or proceeding, either in law or equity, other than as aforesaid, and without setting forth the commission or authority of the court or person or persons before whom the perjury was committed, or was agreed, or promised, or procured, or incited to be committed.

SEC. 55. If any person not authorized by law to administer oaths and affirmations, shall administer any oath, affirmation or obligation in the nature of an oath, or if any person shall knowingly or willingly permit or suffer any such oath, affirmation or obligation in the nature of an oath, to be administered to him by any person not authorized by law, every person so offending shall be fined one hundred dollars for every

offence.

SEC. 56. Every person who shall be convicted of giving any sum of money or any bribe, present or reward, or any promise or security for any, to obtain or influence the opinion, judgment, verdict, sentence, report or award of any judge, justice of the peace, warden, juror, auditor, referee, arbitrator, master in chancery, or person summoned as a juror, in any matter or cause pending or to be tried before him alone or before him with others, shall be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, or shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 57. Every judge, justice of the peace, warden, juror, auditor, referee, arbitrator, master in chancery or person summoned as a juror, who shall be convicted of accepting, receiving or agreeing for in any way, any bribe, present or reward to him offered, for the purpose of obtaining or influencing his opinion, judgment, verdict, sentence, report or award, in any matter or cause depending or to be tried before him alone, or before him with others, shall be imprisoned not exceeding seven years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 58. Every person who shall be convicted of setting at liberty, or of rescuing either by force or stratagem, any person convicted of any crime or offence, or in the custody of any officer upon any criminal charge, shall suffer the like imprisonment or penalty as the prisoner so rescued was sentenced to or would be liable to suffer upon conviction for the crime or offence wherewith he stood charged and in custody: provided, always, that if the prisoner escaping shall be charged with or convicted of any crime, the punishment whereof is by law capital, or for which he may be imprisoned for any term exceeding ten years, the person convicted of so setting at liberty or rescuing, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or fined not exceeding three thousand dollars.

SEC. 59. Every person who shall be convicted of menacing, threatening, obstructing, striking, insulting, assaulting, or in any other manner abusing any officer, civil or military, while in the execution of his office, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 60. Every jailer or other officer who shall be convicted of voluntarily suffering any prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon any criminal charge to escape, shall suffer the like imprisonment or penalty as the prisoner so escaped was sentenced to or would be liable to suffer upon conviction for the crime or offence wherewith he stood charged and in custody: provided, always, that if the prisoner escaping shall be charged with or convicted of any crime the punishment whereof is by law capital, or for which he may be imprisoned for any term exceeding ten years, the jailer or other officer so convicted of voluntarily suffering him to escape, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars.

SEC. 61. Every jailer or other officer who shall be convicted of negligently suffering any prisoner in his custody upon conviction or upon any criminal charge to escape, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 62. Every person who shall be convicted of conveying, without the knowedge of the jailer, any instrument or other thing whatsoever to any prisoner in any jail, whereby any prisoner might break jail, or in any way escape, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. But in case any prisoner shall escape by means of any instrument or thing whatever to him so conveyed, the person so conveying the same shall suffer the like imprisonment and penalty as the prisoner so escaping was sentenced to, or would be liable to suffer upon conviction for the crime or offence wherewith he stood charged and in custody provided, always, that if the prisoner so escaping shall be charged with or convicted of any crime the punishment whereof is, by law, capital, or for which he may be imprisoned for any term exceeding ten years, the person conveying such instrument or thing shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars; and moreover shall be liable to pay all sums of money for which such prisoner was committed on execution, and all sums that shall be recovered against him in all suits in which he was committed on mesne process.

SEC. 63. Every officer appointed by the state or by any town in this state, whose fees are stated by law, who shall be convicted of corruptly exacting or of extorting any more or greater fees for any services than by law are stated and allowed, or of corruptly levying, demanding, receiving or taking, under color of his office, any bond, bill or note, or other assurance or promise whatever, securing the payment of a greater sum of money for any service than he is by law authorized to demand and receive, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 64. Every person who shall be convicted of falsely assuming or pretending to be a judge, justice of the peace, warden, sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, city sergeant, or constable, and of acting as such, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 65. Every person who shall be convicted of having knowledge of the commission of any crime or offence punishable by this act by imprisonment for the term of ten years or more, and of taking any money, gratuity or reward, or any engagement therefor upon an agreement or understanding, express or implied, to compound or conceal such crime or offence, or not to prosecute therefor, or not to give evidence relative thereto, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 66. If any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, city sergeant or constable, shall be convicted of receiving from any defendant or any other person, any money or other valuable thing, as a consideration, reward or inducement for omitting or delaying to perform any duty pertaining to his office, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 67. All officers who shall receive any fines, forfeitures or penalties, shall forthwith pay the same into the proper office where by law they ought to be paid; and if any officer, judicial, executive or ministerial, shall refuse or neglect for the space of three months to pay over any fine, forfeiture or penalty, or any part thereof, which may have come to his hands, to the proper officer to whom by law the same ought to be paid or delivered, he shall be fined treble the value or amount of the fine, forfeiture or penalty so withholden or not paid over.

SEC. 68. Every person who shall be convicted of falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, or falsely altering any note,

certificate or other security, in imitation of and purporting to be a note, certificate or other security, which has been or hereafter may be issued for any debt of this state, or any bank bill or note, in imitation of or purporting to be a bank bill, which has been or hereafter may be issued by any corporation which is or hereafter may be established as a bank, in this state or elsewhere, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 69. Every person who shall be convicted of uttering, publishing, passing or tendering in payment as true, any such false, forged, counterfeited or altered certificate, security or bank bill or note, knowing the same to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 70. Every person who shall be convicted of bringing into this state, or of having in his possession or custody within this state, any such false, forged, counterfeited or altered certificate or security, bank bill or note, knowing the same to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, with intent to utter, pass or tender in payment the same as true, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 71. Every person who shall be convicted of engraving, forming, making or mending, or of beginning to engrave, form, make or mend any plate, stone, paper, rolling press or other instrument or material, devised, adapted and designed for the stamping, forging or making any false, forged and counterfeited bank bill or notes, in imitation of bank bills or notes which have been or shall be issued by any bank which is or hereafter may be established as a bank in this state or elsewhere, or of having in his possession or custody any such plate or stone engraven in any part, or any such paper, rolling press or other instrument or material, devised, adapted or designed as aforesaid, with intent to use and employ the same, or to cause or permit the same to be used and employed in making any such false and counterfeited bank bill or note, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 72. Every person who shall be convicted of falsely making, altering, forging or counterfeiting, or of procuring to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, any public record, or any writ, process or proceeding in any court of justice in this state, any certificate or attestation of any judge, justice of the peace, warden, public notary, clerk of any court, town clerk, city clerk, or other public officer, in any matter wherein such certificate or attestation may be received as le

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