Art. 3. Of the liberties of jails, and admitting || Title 10. Summary proceedings to recover prisoners thereto. Art. 4. Of escapes, and the liabilities of sheriffs therefor. Art. 5. Proceedings on the election or appointment of a new sheriff. Art. 6. Of the duties of sheriffs, in the execution and return of process. Art. 7. Proceedings in case of resistance to the execution of process. the possession of land in certain cases: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of forcible entries and detainers. Art. 2. Of summary proceedings to recover the possession of land in other cases. Title 11. Of distraining cattle and other chattels doing damage, and of distraining in other cases. Art. 8. Provisions concerning the duties of Title 12. Of the action of replevin. CHAP. VIII. OF PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES: Containing seventeen Titles. Title 1. Of the bringing and maintaining of suits by poor persons. Title 13. Of proceedings as for contempts, to enforce civil remedies, and to protect the rights of parties in civil actions. Title 14. Of arbitrations. Title 15. Of the foreclosure of mortgages by advertisement. Title 16. Of proceedings for the draining of swamps, marshes and other low lands. Title 17. General miscellaneous provisions, concerning suits and proceedings in civil cases. Title 2. Proceedings by and against infants. Title 3. Of suits by and against executors and administrators: and against heirs, devisees CHAP. IX. OF THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORand legatees: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of suits by and against executors and administrators. Art. 4. Of proceedings by and against public bodies having certain corporate powers, and by and against the officers representing them. Title 5. Of suits against sheriffs, surrogates and other officers, on their official bonds. Title 6. Of actions for penalties and forfeitures; and provisions for the collection and remission of forfeited recognizances and fines imposed by courts: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of actions for penalties and forfeitures. Art. 2. Provisions respecting the collection and remission of fines imposed by courts, and of forfeited recognizances. Title 7. Of proceedings for the admeasurement of dower. Title 8. Of proceedings for the collection of demands against ships and vessels. Title 9. Of proceedings for the recovery of rent, and of demised premises: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of distress for rent. Art. 2. Of the recovery of possession of demised premises, for non-payment of rent, by ejectment. PUS; OF WRITS OF ERROR, APPEALS, INFORMATIONS, AND PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED BY ANY SPECIAL WRIT: Containing three Titles. Title 1. Of the writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, in certain cases: Containing three Articles. Art. 1. Of the writ of habeas corpus, to bring up a person to testify, or to answer in certain cases. Art. 2. Of the writs of habeas corpus and certiorari, when issued to inquire into the cause of detention. Art. 3. General provisions. Title 2. Of proceedings by scire facias, by information in certain cases, mandamus, prohibition, and ad quod damnum: Containing four Articles. Art. 1. Of scire facias. Art. 2. Of informations in the nature of a quo warranto, and in certain other cases. Art. 3. Of writs of mandamus and prohibition. Art. 4. Of the writ of ad quod damnum. Title 3. Of writs of error, and appeals: Containing three Articles. Art. 1. Of writs of error. Art. 2. Of writs of certiorari and of error, in special cases. Art. 3. Of appeals from the court of chancery, and surrogate's courts; and from circuit judges and courts of common pleas, in certain cases. CHAP. X. OF COSTS, AND THE FEES OF OFFICERS: Containing five Titles. Title 1. Of the cases in which costs may be recovered, and in which double costs may be allowed. Title 2. Of security for the payment of costs. Title 3. Of the fees of certain officers. Title 4. General provisions concerning the | Title 3. Of trials for offences, before courts of fees of officers and persons, to whom any allowance is made for services. Title 5. Of the taxation of costs. The FOURTH PART of the Revised Statutes is entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments; proceedings in criminal cases, and prison discipline;" and consists of THREE CHAPTERS. CHAP. I. OF CRIMES, AND THEIR PUNISHMENT: Containing seven Titles. Title 1. Of crimes punishable with death. Title 2. Of offences against the person, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of manslaughter, Art. 2. Of rape, maiming, kidnapping and other offences against the person, not herein before enumerated. Title 3. Of offences against property, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison: Containing five Articles. Art. 1. Of arson. Art. 2. Of burglary. Art. 3. Of forgery. Art. 4. Of false personating another, and of cheats. Art. 5. Of robbery, embezzlement and larceny. Title 4. Of offences affecting the administra tion of justice, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison: Containing three Articles. Art. 1. Of perjury and subornation of perjury. Art. 2. Of bribery, and of corrupting jurors and others. Art. 3. Of escapes from prisons and assisting therein. Title 5. Of offences against the public peace and public morals, and other miscellaneous offences, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison: Containing three Articles. Art. 1. Of duelling and challenges to fight. Art. 2. Of unlawful marriages and of incest. Art. 3. Of offences against public decency; of malicious mischief, and of other crimes not before enumerated. Title 6. Of offences punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, and by fines. Title 7. General provisions concerning crimes and their punishment. CHAP. II. OF PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES: Containing eight Titles. Title 1. Of proceedings to prevent the commission of crimes. Title 2. Of the arrest and examination of offenders, their commitment for trial, and let- | ting them to bail. special sessions of the peace: Containing four Articles. Art. 1. Of trials before courts of special sessions, held in any county of this state, except the city and county of New-York. Art. 2. Of trials before courts of special sessions in the city and county of New-York. Art. 3. General provisions concerning courts of special sessions. Art. 4. Of certioraris to courts of special sessions. Title 4. Of indictments, and proceedings before trial: Containing three Articles. Art. 1. Of the return and summoning of grand juries, their powers and duties. Art. 2. Of indictments and proceedings there on. Art. 3. Of the removal of indictments before trial or judgment. Title 5. Of trials for offences; bills of excep tion and other proceedings incident to trial. Title 6. Of judgments, the mode of enforcing them, and of writs of error thereon: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Of judgments; the evidence thereof, and the mode of enforcing them. Art. 2. Of writs of error on judgments; and certioraris in criminal cases. Title 7. Special proceedings in criminal cases, and miscellaneous provisions respecting criminal proceedings: Containing three Articles. Art. I. Of coroners' inquests. Art. 2. Of the outlawry of persons convicted of treason. Art. 3. Miscellaneous provisions respecting criminal proceedings. Title 8. Of the fees of officers and ministers of justice in criminal cases. CHAP. III. OF JAILS, PENITENTIARIES AND PRISONS, AND THE GOVERNMENT AND DIS CIPLINE THEREOF: Containing three Titles. Title 1. Of the county prisons: Containing two Articles. Art. 1. Designation of the several county prisons, and provisions concerning their management. Art. 2. Of the inspection of county prisons, and the discharge and delivery of prisoners confined therein. Title 2. Of the state prisons: Containing four Articles. Art. 1. Of the custody and government of the state prisons; the officers connected therewith, and their general powers, duties and compensation. Art. 2. Regulations concerning the treatment and conduct of prisoners, and the discipline of the prison. Art. 3. Miscellaneous provisions. Art. 4. Special provisions applicable to the state prison at Auburn. Title 3. General provisions applicable to all the prisons treated of in this Chapter. ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION, &c. TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, We, the undersigned, delegates of the states affixed to our names, send greeting: confedera WHEREAS, the delegates of the United States of America in con- Articles of gress assembled did, on the fifteenth day of November, in the year of tion. our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, in the words following, viz.: Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New- ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be, "The United Style of the States of America." confederacy. ed by the ART. 2. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independ- Rights retainence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this states. confederation expressly delegated to the United States in congress assembled. confederacy. ART. 3. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league Objects of the of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. leges of the ants of the se ART. 4. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship Mutual priviand intercourse among the people of the different states in this union, free inhabitthe free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and veral states. fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other 1 VOL. I. state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively, provided that such restrictions shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property imported into any state to any other state, of which the owner is an inhabitant; provided also, that no imposition, duties, or restriction, shall be laid by any state on the property of the United States or either of them. If any person guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other to be given high misdemeanor, in any state, shall flee from justice, and be found of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence. Persons guilty of crimes up. Faith to be given to the in any Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these states to the acts of each records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other state. state. &c. Delegates to ART. 5. For the more convenient management of the general inbe annually appointed, terests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct, to meet in Each state congress on the first Monday in November, in every year, with a power reserved to each state to recall its delegates or any of them, at any time within the year, and to send others in their stead for the remainder of the year. may recall its Number and qualificatious No state shall be represented in congress by less than two nor by of delegates. more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind. Delegates how maintained. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states. Each state to In determining questions in the United States in congress assembled, each state shall have one vote. have one vote. Privileges of members of congress. negotiate Freedom of speech and debate in congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of congress; and the members of congress shall be protected in their persons from arrests and imprisonments, during the time of their going to and from and attendance on congress, except for treason, felony, or breach of the peace. No state to ART. 6. No state, without the consent of the United States in with foreign congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any empowers. bassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance, or treaPersons hold- ty, with any king, prince, or state; nor shall any person holding any to accept pre- office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatCongress not ever, from any king, prince, or foreign state; nor shall the United of nobility. States in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility. ing offices not sents. to grant titles tween two or lay interfer or duties. No two or more states shall enter into any treaty, confederation, or Treaties bealliance whatever between them, without the consent of the United more states prohibited. States in congress assembled, specifying accurately the purposes for which the same is to be entered into, and how long it shall continue. No state shall lay any imposts or duties, which may interfere with No state to any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in con- ing imposts gress assembled, with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by congress to the courts of France and Spain. No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any state, Regulations except such number only as shall be deemed necessary by the United naval and States in congress assembled for the defence of such state or its trade; tablishments, nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state in time of peace, &c. except such number only as, in the judgment of the United States in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state; but every state shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred, and shall provide and have constantly ready for use, in public stores, a due number of field pieces and tents, and a proper quantity of arms, ammunition, and camp equipage. respecting military es the militia, cept in cer engage in grant com armed ves No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the United No state, exStates in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by tain cases, to enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being war; nor formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger missions to is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till the United States in con- sels, &c. gress assembled can be consulted; nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the United States in congress assembled shall determine otherwise. cers of the to be appoint ART. 7. When land forces are raised by any state for the common Certain offidefence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed land forces, by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces ed by each shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appoint ment. state. &c. be defrayed out of a common treasury. ART. 8. All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be war, to incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a Treasury common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in how suppli ed. |