any way give aid and comfort to the enemies of this State and shall be thereof convicted either upon confession in open Court, or by the testimony of two or more witnesses to the same overt act of treason, for which such party may be indicted, such person shall be adjudged guilty of treason, and shall be punished by death.

Sec. 2. That if any person shall know, that any other person has committed or is intending to commit treason, and shall not within one day from the time of his having such knowledge, give information thereof to the Governor, Judge of some Court of record, or to some Justice of the Peace of this State, he shall on conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of misprison of treason, and shall be punished, by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, not exceeding seven years, or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars.

Sec. 3. That no person shall be tried for treason or misprison of treason unless the indictment therefor be found within two years next after the commission of the offence.

Sec. 4. That if any public officer being a receiver of public money under any law of this State shall fraudulently convert the same to his own use, or pay or deliver the same to any person knowing that such person is not entitled to receive the same, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, not exceeding two years, or by imprisonment in the common Jail not exceeding one year and by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST THE LIFE OR PERSON.

Sec. 5. That all murder committed by poison, starving, torture or other premeditated and deliberate killing, or committed in the perpetration or in the attempt at the perpetration of arson, rape, robbery or burglary, is murder in the first degree, and all murder not of the first degree is of the second degree. If the Jury shall find any person guilty of murder, they shall also find by their verdict, whether it is of the first or second degree.

Sec. 6. That if any person shall plead guilty to an indictment for murder, a Jury shall be summoned to find the punishment. Sec. 7. That the punishment for murder in the first degree,

shall be death, and the punishment for murder in the second degree, shall be confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for not less than three years nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 8. That if any person shall be guilty of manslaughter, he shall be punished by confinement in the Penitentiary to hard labor for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

Sec. 9. That if any person by assault, or by violence and putting in fear, shall feloniously steal, rob and take from the person of another, any money, goods, chattles, or other property which is the subject of larceny, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

Sec. 10. That if any person shall ravish and carnally know any woman committing carnal copulation with her by force against her will, or if any man shall unlawfully and carnally know and abuse any woman child, under the age of ten years, he shall on conviction thereof, be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for any time not less than one year, and in any prosecution under the provisions of this section, it shall not be necessary to prove emission.

Sec. 11. That if any person with intent to maim or disfigure, shall maliciously cut off an ear, cut out or maim the tongue, cut off or slit the nose or lip, put out an eye, cut off or disable any limb or member, of any person, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not less than one, nor more than ten years.

Sec. 12. That if any person shall make an assault upon another with intent to commit any crime against the life or person of another which crime has been herein and heretofore described in this act, or shall attempt to commit any such crime, by any means not constituting an assault, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

Sec. 13. That if any woman shall be privately delivered of a child, which if born alive would be a bastard, and shall endeavor privately to conceal its death, and the manner or cause thereof, she shall be punished by confinement to hard larbor in the Penitentiary not exceeding ten years.

Sec. 14. That the murder of such child and the offence described in the preceding section may be charged in the same

indictment, and the person, accused, may be found guilty of either offence as the evidence may warrant.

Sec. 15. That if any person without lawful authority, shall forcibly confine, or imprison any free person within this State against his will, or shall forcibly carry or send such person out of this State or shall forcibly seize, inveigle or kidnap any person with intent, either to cause to be sent out of the State, against his will, or to be sold, or in any way to be held to service against his will, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary not exceeding ten years.

OF OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY.

Sec. 16. That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn any dwelling house or any out building adjoining thereto, or any building whereby any dwelling house shall be burned, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term of not less than three years nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 17. That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn any vessel lying within the body of any county, or any bridge, or any building, other than those described in the preceding section, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than two years nor more than ten years.

Sec. 18. That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously place any obstruction upon the track of any railroad, or remove any rail therefrom, or in any way injure such railroad, or do any other thing thereto, whereby the life of any person may be endangered, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than one year nor more than ten years.

Sec. 19. That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn any stack of corn, hay, fodder, grain or flax, or any fence, or any pile of boards, lumber or wood, or any trees, or underwood, of another, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than one year nor more than three years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the common Jail not exceeding one year.

Sec. 20. That if any person shall, in the night time, break and enter any dwelling house, with intent to commit any crime,

the punishment whereof may be death, or confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term of not less than five years, nor more than fifteen years.

Sec. 21. That if any person, with intent to commit any crime, the punishment whereof may be confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, or to commit larceny, shall in the night time break and enter any office, shop, store or warehouse, or any vessel lying within the body of any county, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

Sec. 22. That if any person, with intent to commit any crime, the punishment whereof may be confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, shall in the day time, break and enter any building, or any vessel lying within the body of any county, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not less than one year, nor more than seven years.

Sec. 23. That if any person shall, in the night time, break or enter, or in the day time, break and enter any dwelling house, or any out house adjoining thereto, any office, shop, store, warehouse, mill, or cotton gin, any meeting house, court house, town house, college, academy, school house, or other building erected for public use, or any vessel lying within the body of any county, and shall therein commit larceny, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less one year, nor more than five years.

Sec. 24. That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously kill, maim, wound, poison, or disfigure any horse, gelding, mare, colt, mule, jack or jenny, cattle, sheep, or swine of another, with intent to injure the owner thereof, the person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be confined to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for any time not exceeding one year.

Sec. 25. That if any person shall commit any larceny, from the person of another, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, not less than one year, nor more than seven

years.

Sec. 26. That if any person shall steal, take, or carry away any horse, mule, ass, cattle, sheep or goat, the property of another, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, not less than one nor more than seven years.

Sec. 27. That if any person shall steal, take, and carry

away of the property of another, any money, bank bills, goods, or chattels, or any writing containing evidence of an existing debt, contract, liability, promise, or ownership of property of the value of twenty dollars, or of the receipt, payment or discharge of the like amount, or any writing of a like kind, which shall contain the like evidence, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than one year, nor more than five years.

Sec. 28. That if any person shall steal, take and carry away any property of another, such as is described in the preceding section, of a less amount or value than twenty dollars, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the common jail not exceeding one year, and by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Sec. 29. That if any person shall steal, take and carry away any deed or other writing, importing to contain the conveyance, release, or defeasance of any title to, or interest in, any real estate, or any will, policy of insurance, bill of sale, of any vessel, or letter of attorney, or any writ, process or record of any court of this State, or any public record, or any record of any corporation, public r private, he shall be punished by confinement to hard labor in the Penitentiary, for a term not less than one year, nor more than five years.

Sec. 30. That if any person shall receive or conceal any property stolen as aforesaid, knowing the same to have been so stolen, he shall be punished in the same manner as if he had so stolen the same, and either before or after the conviction of the principal felon.

Sec. 31. That if any person shall fraudulently mortgage, pledge, sell, alienate, or convey, any of his real or personal estate, or shall fraudulently conceal his personal estate to prevent the attachment or seizure of the same upon mesne process, or execution, or to defraud creditors, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the common Jail not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by fine not exceeding double the value of such estate, or by both of said punishments.

Sec. 32. That if any person shall fraudulently receive any such mortgage, pledge, or conveyance, or shall conceal the property of any debtor, with intent to prevent such attachment or seizure, he shall be punished in the manner provided in the preceding section.