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than three years, and shall be incapable of voting or holding any office of trust or profit under the laws of this territory.

Accepting or carrying challenge, &c. Sec. 28. Every person who shall accept such challenge, or who shall, knowingly, carry or deliver any such challenge or message, whether a duel ensue or not, and every person who shall be present at the fighting of a duel with deadly weapons, as an aid, or second, or surgeon, or who shall advise, or encourage, or promote such duel, shall be punished in the territorial prison not more than two years, nor less than one year.

Posting another, &c. Sec. 29. If any person shall post another, or in writing or print he shall use any reproachful and contemptuous language to, or concerning another, for not fighting a duel, or for not sending or accepting a challenge, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than one year, nor less than six months, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars.

Maiming or disfiguring. Sec. 30. If any person with malicious intent to maim or disfigure, shall cut out or maim the tongue, put out or destroy an eye, cut or tear off an ear, cut or slit or mutilate the nose or lip, or cut off or disable a limb or member of any person, every such offender and every person privy to such intent, who shall be present aiding in the commission of such offense, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than two hundred dollars.

Assault with intent to murder, &c. Sec. 31. If any person shall assault another, with intent to murder, or to maim, or to disfigure his person in any of the ways mentioned in the next preceding section, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars.

Attempt to murder by poison, &c. Sec. 32. If any person shall attempt to commit the crime of murder, by poisoning, drowning, or strangling another person, or by any means not constituting an assault, with intent to murder, every such offender shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than ten years, nor less than one year.

Robbing, being armed, &c. Sec. 33. If any person shall assault another, and shall feloniously rob, steal, and take from his person any money or other property which may be the subject of larceny, such rob-