gal proof, any charter, deed, will, testament, bond or writing obligatory, letter of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of exchange, promissory note, order, acquittance, discharge for or upon the payment of money or delivery of goods, or any acceptance of a bill of exchange, or any endorsement, assignment or guaranty of any bill of exchange or promissory note, or any certificate or accountable receipt for money, goods or any other thing, or any warrant, order or request for the payment of money or delivery of goods, or for the delivery of any note, bill or other security for money or goods, or any lottery ticket or part or share of any lottery ticket, authorized to be sold in this state, or any writing whatever purporting to contain evidence of any debt, contract or promise, or of the discharge, payment or satisfaction of any debt, contract or promise, with intent to defraud, or of uttering and publishing as true, or of procuring to be uttered and published as true, any such false, forged, altered or counterfeited record, deed or other writing aforementioned, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered or counterfeited with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 73. Every person who shall be convicted of forging or counterfeiting any coin, in imitation or similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 74. Every person who shall be convicted of uttering or tendering in payment as true, any false, forged or counterfeit coin, made and forged in imitation and similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, knowing the same to be false and counterfeit, with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 75. Every person who shall be convicted of bringing into this state, or of having in his possession or custody, any false or counterfeit coin, made and forged in imitation and similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, with intent to utter or pass the same in payment as true, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 76. Every person who shall be convicted of casting, stamping, engraving, forming, making or mending, or of beginning to cast, stamp, engrave, form, make or mend, or of having in his possession or custody any mould, pattern, die,

punch, press, or other tool or instrument whatever, devised, adapted and designed for the forging or making any false or counterfeit coin, in imitation and similitude of any gold or silver coin current within this state by law or usage, with intent to use and employ the same, or to cause the same to be used and employed in forging or making any such false or counterfeit coin as aforesaid, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 77. In no prosecution for forging, counterfeiting or altering any bank bill or note, or for uttering, passing or tendering in payment as true, any such false, forged, counterfeited or altered bank bill or note, or for bringing into this state, or for having in possession or custody any such false, forged, counterfeited or altered bank bill or note, with intent to pass the same as true, knowing the same to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, shall the testimony of any person whose name is purported to be signed to such bill or note, or his personal attendance as a witness be requisite when he shall be absent from this state at the time of such trial, or when his place of residence shall be without the limits of this state, or more than thirty miles from the place of trial; but the testimony of any competent witness who is acquainted with the handwriting of such person, or who has knowledge of the difference of true and counterfeit or altered bank bills, and who is skilled therein, shall be received as competent evidence to prove any such bank bill or note to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered.

SEC. 78. Every person who shall be convicted of obtaining carnal knowledge of any female by virtue of any feigned or pretended marriage, or of any false or feigned express promise of marriage, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding five thousand dollars. But no person shall be convicted of said crime upon the testimony of the female unless the same be corroborated by other evidence.

SEC. 79. Any person who shall keep a house of ill fame, resorted to for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars; and any person who after having been once convicted of such offence shall again be convicted of a like offence, shall be imprisoned not less than one year and not exceeding three years.

SEC. 80. When the lessee of a dwelling house shall be convicted of keeping the same as a house of ill fame, the lease or contract for letting such house shall, at the option of the lessor, become void; and such lessor shall thereupon have

the like remedy to recover possession as against a tenant holding over after the expiration of his term.

SEC. 81. Any person who shall inveigle or entice any female, before reputed virtuous, to a house of ill fame, or shall knowingly conceal, or aid or abet in concealing any such female so deluded or enticed, for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 82. When there is reason to believe that any female has been inveigled, deluded or enticed to a house of ill fame as aforesaid, upon complaint thereof being made under oath by any overseer of the poor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant or constable, or by the parent, master or guardian of such female, to any justice of the peace or other magistrate authorized to issue warrants, he may issue his warrant, to enter by day or night such house or houses of ill fame, and to search for such female, and to bring her and the person in whose possession or keeping she may be found, before such justice or magistrate; who may, on examination, order her to be delivered to such overseer, parent, master or guardian, or to be discharged, as law and justice may require.

SEC. 83. Every person who shall be convicted of adultery shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars; and illicit sexual intercourse between any two persons, where either of them is married, shall be deemed adultery in each.

SEC. 84. Every person who shall be convicted of fornication shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars.

SEC. 85. Every person who shall be convicted of being married to another, or of cohabiting with another as husband and wife, having at the time a former husband or wife living, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, nor less than one year, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars: provided, that this shall not extend to any person whose husband or wife shall be continually remaining without the limits of this state for the space of seven years together, the party being married again after the expiration of said seven years, not knowing the other to be living within that time; nor to any person who shall be divorced at the time of such second marriage; nor to any person by reason of any former or prior marriage, made when the man was less than fourteen and the woman less than twelve years of age.

SEC. 86. Every woman who shall be convicted of concealing the birth of any issue of her body, which, if it were born alive, would be a bastard, so that it may not be known

whether it was born dead or alive, or of concealing the death of any infant bastard child born of her body, so that it may not be known whether such child was murdered or not, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten months, or be fined not exceeding three hundred dollars.

SEC. 87. Any woman who shall be indicted for the murder of her infant bastard child, may also be charged in the same indictment, with either or both of the offences referred to in the next preceding section; and if upon the trial the jury shall acquit her on the charge of murder, and find her guilty of the other offences, or either of them, judgment and sentence may be awarded against her accordingly.

SEC. 88. Every person who shall be convicted of blasphemy, shall be imprisoned not exceeding two months, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars.

SEC. 89. Every person who shall be convicted of profane swearing and cursing, shall be fined not exceeding five dol

lars.

SEC. 90. Every person who shall be convicted of the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with any beast, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twelve years, or less than one year.

SEC. 91. If any person shall import, print, publish, sell or distribute any book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing, containing obscene language or obscene prints, pictures, figment or other descriptions, manifestly tending to the corruption of the morals of youth, or shall introduce into any family, school or place of education, or shall buy, procure, receive or have in his possession any such book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing, either for the purpose of sale, exhibition, loan or circulation, or with intent to introduce the same into any family, school or place of education, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 92. Any justice of the peace within his county may issue a search warrant for the purpose of searching for any such obscene book, pamphlet, ballad, printed paper or other thing mentioned in the preceding section, complaint being first made to him in writing, and on oath, as in this act is required, before the issuing of search warrants in other cases: and all such things which shall be found by any officer in executing any such search warrant, or which shall be produced and brought into court, shall be safely kept so long as shall be necessary, for the purpose of being used as evidence in any

case: and as soon as may be afterwards, shall be destroyed by order of the court before which the same shall be brought.

SEC. 93. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully interrupting or disturbing any town or ward meeting, any assembly of people met for religious worship, or any public or private school, or any meeting lawfully and peaceably held for purposes of literary or scientific improvement, either within or without the place where such meeting or school is held, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 94. Every person who shall be convicted of secretly disinterring, digging up, removing or carrying away any human body from its place of sepulture, or of knowingly concealing any such body so dug up or carried away, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 95. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully and maliciously destroying, mutilating, defacing, covering over, injuring or removing any tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, tree, shrub, or other thing intended for the protection or for the ornament of any tomb, monument, grave-stone, or other structure before mentioned, or of any enclosure for the sepulture for the dead, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten months, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 96. Every person who shall be convicted of cruelly using, beating, tormenting, overloading or overdriving any horse, ox or other animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars.

SEC. 97. If any person shall do or exercise any labor or business or work of his ordinary calling, or use any game, sport, play or recreation on the first day of the week, or suffer the same to be done or used by his children, servants or apprentices, works of necessity and charity only excepted, he shall be fined one dollar for the first offence and two dollars for the second offence.

SEC. 98. If any person shall employ, improve, set to work or encourage any other person's servant to commit any act named in the preceding section, and be convicted thereof, he shall suffer the like punishment.

SEC. 99. All complaint for offences against the two next preceding sections, shall be made within ten days after the committing thereof, and not after.

SEC. 100. All the professors of the Sabbatarian faith or