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so offending, although no escape or attempt to escape be actually made, shall, on conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the Territorial prison not less than one year nor more than five years.

SEC. 106. If any sheriff, coroner, jailor, keeper of a prison, constable, or other officer or person whatever, having any prisoner in his legal custody, before conviction, shall voluntarily suffer or permit such prisoner to escape or go at large, every such officer or person so offending shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the Territorial prison not less than one year nor exceeding five years: Provided, That if such person be in custody charged with murder, or other capital offence, then such officer or person suffering or permitting such escape shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for any term not less than one year nor more than ten years. A negligent escape of a criminal charged with a criminal offence, before conviction, from the custody of any of the aforesaid officers, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than one year nor more than five years, or shall be fined in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars.

SEC. 107. If any sheriff, coroner, keeper of a jail, constable, or other officer, shall wilfully refuse to receive or arrest any person charged with a criminal offence, such sheriff, coroner, jailor, constable, or other officer, so offending, shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the Territorial prison not exceeding five years.

SEC. 108. Every person having a knowledge of the actual commission of any offence punishable by imprisonment in a county jail or by fine, or of any misdemeanor or violation of any statute, for which any pecuniary or other penalty is or shall be prescribed, who shall take any money, property, gratuity, or reward, or any engagement or promise therefor, upon any agreement or understanding, expressed or implied, to compound or conceal any such offence or misdemeanor, or to abstain from any prosecution thereof, or to withhold any evidence thereof, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months: Provided,

That this section shall not apply to those offences which may be lawfully compromised by leave of the court.

SEC. 109. If two or more persons shall conspire, either to commit any offence, or falsely and maliciously to indict another for any offence, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any such offence, or falsely to move or maintain any suit, or to cheat or defraud any person of any property, by any means which if executed would amount to a cheat, or to obtain money or property by false pretence, or to cheat or defraud any person of any property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or to commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for perversion or obstruction of justice, or due administration of the laws, they shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars: Provided, That it shall not be necessary, to procure conviction under this section, to prove any overt act done in pursuance of such conspiracy.

SEC. 110. If any person shall wilfully take upon himself to exercise or officiate in any office or place of another, in this Territory, without being lawfully authorized thereto, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 111. Embracery is an attempt to influence a juror or jurors corruptly to one side, by threat or menace, or by promise or persuasion, entreaty, money, or the like. Every embracer, who shall directly or indirectly promise or offer to any juror, or procure any juror to take money, or any other bribe, present, or reward, or any contract, obligation or security for the payment or delivery of any money, present or reward, or any other thing, or shall corruptly influence or attempt to influence any juror, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisoned in the Territorial prison not less than one year, nor exceeding five years. Any juror convicted of taking any money, present, reward, or any other thing, or corruptly being influenced as aforesaid, shall suffer the like imprisonment, and be forever disqualified to act as a juror. This section shall apply as well to the grand, as the trial jurors.

SEC. 112. If any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, constable, clerk or other officer, or assessor of this Territory, minis

terial or judicial, shall wilfully receive or take any fee or reward, to do or execute bis duty as such officer, except such as is or shall be allowed by law; or if any such officer shall wilfully or corruptly ask or demand as a condition precedent to the performance of his duties as such officer, any fee or reward, except such as shall be allowed by law, every such officer so offending shall be deemed guilty of extortion, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than two hundred dollars, and not more than one thousand dollars, and on conviction removed from office.

SEC. 113. If any justice of the peace, constable of the same township, shall, directly or indirectly, purchase any judgment or part thereof, on the docket of such justice, or any docket in his possession, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in each offence in any sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 114. Every person holding or receiving any office under the laws and Constitution of this Territory, who shall for any reward or gratuity, paid or agreed to be paid, grant to another the right or authority to discharge any of the duties of such office, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined in any sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, and shall forfeit his office, and be disabled from holding such office; and every person who shall give, or make any agreement to give any reward or gratuity, in consideration of any such grant or deputation, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than five hundred, nor exceeding five thousand dollars.

SEC. 115. If any person shall knowingly send or deliver any letter or writing, threatening to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, to expose or publish any of his infirmities or failings, with intent to extort money, goods, chattels, or other valuable things, or threatening to maim, wound, kill, or murder, or to burn or destroy his house, or other property; or to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, or to expose or publish any of his infirmities, though no money, goods, chattels, or valuable thing, be demanded, such person so offending shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six mouths.

SEC. 116. Every person who shall wilfully open or read, or cause to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without

being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter, or by the person to whom it is addressed; and every person who shall maliciously publish the whole or any part of such letter, without the authority of the writer thereof, or of the person to whom the same was addressed, knowing the same to have been opened, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

CHAPTER IX.

OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE AND TRANQUILITY.

SEC. 117. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or family, by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous and offensive conduct, threatening, traducing, quarrelling, challenging to fight, or fighting; every person convicted thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding two months.

SEC. 118. If two or more persons assemble for the purpose of disturbing the public peace or committing any unlawful act, and do not disperse on being desired or commanded so to do by a judge or justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, constable, or other public officer, the persons so offending shall, upon conviction, be severally fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months.

SEC. 119. If two or more persons shall by agreement fight in a public place, to the terror of the citizens of this Territory, the persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of an affray, and shall be severally fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not more than one month.

SEC. 120. If two or more persons shall assemble together to do an unlawful act, and separate without doing or advancing toward it, such persons shall be deemed guilty of an unlawful assembly, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined severally in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months.

SEC. 121. If two or more persons meet to do an unlawful act, upon a common cause of quarrel, and make advances toward it,

they shall be deemed guilty of a riot, and on conviction shall be severally fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months; and if two or more persons shall actually do an unlawful act of violence, either with or without a common cause of quarrel, or even do an unlawful act in a violent, tumultuous and illegal manner, they shall be deemed guilty of a riot, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars each, or be imprisoned in the county jail for any term not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment

SEC. 122. Every person who shall wilfully disquiet or disturb any congregation, or assembly of people, met for religious worship, by making a noise, or by rude or indiscreet behavior, or profane discourse within their place of worship, or so near the same as to disturb the order or solemnity of the meeting, or menace, threaten, or assault any person there being, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not less than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months.

SEC. 123. Every person who shall erect or keep a booth, tent, stall, or other contrivance, for the purpose of selling or otherwise disposing of any wine, or spirituous or fermented liquors, or any drinks of which wine, spirituous or fermented liquors form a part, within one mile of any camp or field meeting for religious worship, during the time of holding such meeting, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 124. If any judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, or other officer, bound to preserve the public peace, shall have knowledge of an intention on the part of two persons, to fight with any deadly weapon or weapons, and such officer shall not use and exert his official authority to arrest the parties and prevent the deed, every such officer shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 125. A libel is a malicious defamation expressed either by printing, or by signs or pictures, or the like, intended to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, virtue, or reputation, or publish the natural defects of one who is alive, and thereby expose him or her to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Every person, whether the writer or publisher,

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