j

406

1846.-

Chap. 27.

Unlawful
tempts,

at-

&c.

when proving
fatal, to be accounted felon}',
and punished by
confinement in

the state prison.

Not proving

fa-

be accounted misdemeanor, and
punished by
tal, to

imprisonment,

&c. and by

fine

not exceeding

^2000.

Chap. 28.

Larceny, &c.
be punished

to

by imprisonment, &c., or
by fine and imprisonment, &c.

Chap. 29.

Persons incorporated.

An Act

BE

to

-Chap. 27—29.

punish unlawful attempts

to

cause Abortion.

enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives^ in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :
Whoever, maliciously or without lawful justification, with
intent to cause and procure the miscarriage of a woman
then pregnant with child, shall administer to her, prescribe
for her, or advise or direct her to take or swallow, any poison, drug, medicine or noxious thing, or shall cause or procure her with like intent, to take or swallow any poison,
drug, medicine or noxious thing; and whoever maliciously
and without lawful justification, shall use any instrument
or means whatever with the like intent, and every person,
with the like intent, knowingly aiding and assisting such
offender or offenders, shall be deemed guilty of felony, if
the woman die in consequence thereof, and shall be imprisoned not more than twenty years, nor less than five years
in tue >State Prison; and if the woman doth not die in consequence thereof, such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding seven years, nor less than one year, in the state
prison or house of correction, or common jail, and by fine
[Apjyroved by the
not exceeding two thousand dollars.
Governor. Jan. 31, 1^45.]
it

An Act

BE

to

punish Larceny in shops and other places in the night time.

enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows:
Every person who shall feloniously steal, take and carry
away the money, goods, chattels or property of another, in
the night time, in any office, bank, shop or warehouse, ship
or vessel, shall be punished by solitary imprisonment in the
state prison or house of correction, not exceeding five days,
and by confinement afterwards to hard labor, not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, and imprisonment in the common jail not exceeding
two years. [Ajyproved by the Governor, Jan. 31, 1845.
it

An Act

BE

to incorporate the

Hampshire and Franklin Rail-road Company.

enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the avthority of
the same, as follows :
Timothy J. Gridley, Luke Sweetser, Parsons
Sect. 1.
it

West, and their associates and successors, are hereby made
a corporation, by the name of the Hampshire and Franklin
Rail-road Company, with all the powers and privileges,

and subject to all the duties, liabilities and restrictions, set
forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes,