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1692-1720 59 (1692)

handle is hein.ssl/ssmd0458 and id is 1 raw text is: THE LAWS OF MARYLAND. 4 WILLIAM and MARY. MAY, 1692. At an ASSEMBLY, held at the CITY of SAINT MARY's, on the tenth day of May, anno Dorn mi 1692, and in the 4th year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady WILLIAM and MARY, by the Grace of GOD, of England, Scotland, France and Ire- land, King and Queen, &c. and ended the ninth day of June following, the act following was made. LYONEL COPLEY, Esquire, Governor. CHAP. XVI. An Act for punishment of persons suborning of wit- nesses, or committing wilful and corrupt peijury. List of acts relating to crimes and punishments : 1707, ch. 4-1715, ch. 26-1720, ch. 25-1723, ch. 16-1729, ch. 4-1737, c h. 2.-1744, ch. 5. ch. 20.-1771, ch. 1.-Feb. 1777, ch. 20.-April 1782, ch. 42. 5. 6-1793, ch. 35.- 1797, ch. 96-1791, ch. 67. 75.-1793, ch. 57.-18U9, ch. 138. Wf 1EREAS several persons, void of grace, and the dread of the Almighty, have, and do still continue, for small Preamble. profits accruing to themselves, to commit wilful and corrupt perjury, or cause or procure the same to be committed, either out of a design for the reasons and purposes aforesaid, or mere- ly to revenge an imaginary inj ury done them, to the great pre- judice of divers of their majesties' loyal subjects inhabiting within this province : And forasmuch as the laws for this prov- Digitized from Best Copy Available