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Procuring drugs, &c., to cause abortion.
Concealing the birth of a child.
Sodomy and bestiality.
Attempt to commit an unnatural offence.
ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1865.
Offences against the Person.
54. Whosoever shall unlawfully supply or procure any poison or other noxious thing or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with intent to procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Concealing the Birth of a Child.
55. If any woman shall be delivered of a child, every person who shall, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child, whether such child died before, at, or after its birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if any person tried for the murder of any child shall be acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the jury by whose verdict such person shall be acquitted to find, in case it shall so appear in evidence, that the child had recently been born, and that such person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of such child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, and thereupon the Court may pass such sentence as if such person had been convicted upon an information for the concealment of the birth.
Unnatural Offence.
56. Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than ten years.
57. Whosoever shall attempt to commit the said abominable crime, or shall be guilty of any assault with intent to commit the same, or of any indecent assault upon any male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
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772
Procuring drugs, &c., to
cause abor-
tion.
Concealing the birth of a child.
Sodomy and bestiality.
Attempt to commit an unnatural offence.
ORDINANCE No. 4 or 1865.
·Offences against the Person.
54. Whosoever shall unlawfully supply or procure any poison or other noxious thing or any instrument or thing whatsoever, knowing that the same is intended to be unlawfully used or employed with intent tɔ procure the miscarriage of any woman, whether she be or be not with child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for the term of three years,-or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
Concealing the Birth of a Child.
55. If any woman shall be delivered of a child, every person who shall, by any secret disposition of the dead body of the said child whether such child died before, at, or after its birth, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if any person tried for the murder of any child shall be acquitted thereof, it shall be lawful for the jury by whose verdict such person shall be acquitted to find, in case it shall so appear in evidence, that the child had recently been born, and that such person did, by some secret disposition of the dead body of such child, endeavour to conceal the birth thereof, and thereupon the Court may pass such sentence as if such person had been convicted upon an information for the concealment of the birth.
Unnatural Offence.
56. Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than ten years.
57. Whosoever shall attempt to commit the said abominable crime, or shall be guilty of any assault with intent to commit the same, or of any indecent assault upon any male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding ten years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
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