Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimnt, his agent or attorney when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbcr or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor, as aforesaid, shall for either of the said offenses, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars. Which pen alty may be recovered by and for the benefit of such claimant, by action of debt, in any court proper to try the same; saving moreover to the person claiming such labor or service, his right of action for or on account of the said injuries or either of them. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the house of representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States and Approved, February 12, 1793: GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. LAWS Passed at the First Session of the Third General Assembly of the State of Ohio. CHAPTER I. An act, respecting crimes and punishments. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Treason the state of Ohio, That if any person belonging to, residing in or protected by, the laws of this state,. shall levy war against the state of Ohio, or shal knowingly and wilfully aid or assist any enemies at war against this state, by joining the armies or fleets of such enemies or by enlisting, persuading or procuring others to join said fleets or armies, or by furnishing such enemies with arms, ammunition, provisions or any other articles for their aid or comfort, or by carrying on a treasonable and treacherous correspondence with them, or shall form or be any way concerned in forming any combination, plot or conspiracy, for betraying the. state of Ohio into the hands or power of any foreign enemy, or shall give or attempt to give, or send any intelligence to any such enemy, for said Murder. Manslaugh ter. Rape. Assault with intent to commit a гаре. purpose, the person or persons so offending, in any of the cases above rehearsed and thereof legally convicted of open deed, by the evidence of two sufficient and lawful witnesses, or their own voluntary confession, shall be deemed guilty of treason and shall suffer death. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person of sound memory and discretion, shall unlawfully kill any human being and in the public peace, with malice aforethought, either express or implied, and being thereof legally convicted, shall suffer death. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall unlawfully kill another, without malice express or implied, either intentionally, on a sudden quarrel or unintentionally, in the commission of some unlawful act and shall be thereof legally convicted, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court, and be perpetually disabled from being a juror or a witness in any court of law within this state. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any man shall carnally know any woman, with force and against her consent, or shall carnally know any woman child, under the age of ten years, with or without her consent, such person shall be deemed guilty of a rape and on conviction thereof, shall suffer death. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, with force and arms, and actual violence, an assault make on the body of any female, with an intent to commit a rape, he shall, on conviction thereof, be whipped not exceeding thirty nine stripes, on his naked back and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, and be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, at the discretion of the court. Arson where hazard hap prejudice or pen to the life of any person. ed. where preju Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn or cause to be burnt, or shall wilfully and knowingly aid or assist in burning or causing to be burned, any dwelling house, store house, barn, stable, outhouse or other building adjoining thereto, or if any person shall wilfully attempt to burn, by setting fire to any dwelling house, store house, barn, stable, out-house or other building adjoining thereto, if any prejudice or hazard happen to the How punishlife of any person thereby, such person so offending, on conviction thereof, shall suffer death. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn or cause to be burned, or shall wilfully and knowingly aid or assist in burning or causing to be burned, or shall wilfully attempt to burn, by setting fire to any dwelling house, store house, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, or to any ship or vessel, and no prejudice or hazard happen to the life of any person thereby, such person, on conviction thereof, shall make restitution to the party injured How punand shall, at the discretion of the court, be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding two years, and be perpetually disabled from being a juror or witness in any court of law in this state. Arson, dice or bazhappen to ard does not the life of any person. ished. Maiming, Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any person, on purpose and of malice aforethought, shall cut out or disable the tongue, or put out an thought. afore How punished. Maiming without malice aforethought. How punished. Perjury How punished. eye, or cut off or destroy any of the privy members, or shall cut off or render useless an arm or a leg of any person, on conviction thereof, the person so offending shall suffer death. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall, without malice aforethought, express or implied, intentionally cut or disable the tongue or put out an eye, or cut off or destroy any of the privy members, or shall cut off or render useless an arm or a leg, or shall slit the nose, cut or bite off the nose, ear or lip, or cut off or disable any limb or member of another, on conviction thereof, the person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any person lawfully called upon to give evidence, before any court of record or other authority in this state, qualified to administer oaths and solemn declarations and affirmations, or shall voluntarily go before such authority and having been duly sworn or affirmed, shall wilfully and positively depose, affirm or declare, any matter to be fact, knowing the same to be false, or shall, in like manner, deny any fact, knowing the same to be true, or shall refuse to depose, affirm or declare such fact, knowing the same to be true, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned not exceeding twelve months, and be perpetually disabled from giving testimony in any court of record within this state, being a juror and of sustaining any office civil or military in this state, and be |