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FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899.

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CHAPTER SEVEN.

OFFENSES AGAINST MORALITY AND DECENCY.

Sec.	Sec.
119. Adultery.	127. Keeping bawdyhouse.
120. Action for adultery, when commenced; adultery by unmarried man.	128. Common fame, evidence of bawdyhouse.
121. Cohabiting in a state of adultery or fornication.	129. Incest, definition and punishment of.
122. Polygamy.	131. Illegal disinterment.
123. Seduction of chaste female.	132. Injuring tombstones and trespassing on graveyards.
124. Indecent exposure and exhibition.	133. Making roads through graveyards.
125. Concealing death of child.	134. Cruelty to animals
126. Indictment of mother for murder of bastard.

Sec. 119. That whoever, being married, shall voluntarily have sexual intercourse with a person other than the offender’s husband or wife is guilty of adultery, and shall be lined not more than two hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months.

Adultery.

Sec. 120. That a prosecution for the crime of adultery shall be commenced, within three years from the time of committing the crime. When the crime of adultery is committed between a married woman and an unmarried man, the man shall be deemed guilty of adultery also, and be punished accordingly.

Action for adultery, when commenced; adultery by an unmarried man.

Sec. 121. That whoever cohabits with another in a state of adultery or fornication shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than two years, or both.

Cohabiting in a state of adultery or fornication.

Sec. 122. That whoever, having a husband or wife, marries another, whether married or single, or simultaneously, or on the same day, marries more than one woman, is guilty of polygamy, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than seven years nor less than one year. This section does not extend to any person whose husband or wife has been continually absent for five consecutive years, and is not known to such person to be living, and is believed by such person to be dead, nor to any person legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.

Polygamy.

Sec. 123. That if any person, under promise of marriage, shall seduce and have illicit connection with any unmarried female of previous chaste character, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars. A subsequent marriage of the parties, or offer to marry in good faith, is a defense to a violation: of this section.

Seduction of a chaste female.

Sec. 124. That if any person shall willfully and lewdly expose his person or the private parts thereof in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby, or shall take any part in any model artist exhibition, or make any other exhibition of himself to public view, or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

Indecent exposure and exhibition.

Sec. 125. That if any woman shall conceal the death of any issue of her body, so that it may not be known whether such issue was born alive or not, or whether it was not murdered, such woman, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than one year, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three mouths nor more than one year.

Concealing death of child.