| FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 429. 1899. |
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| CHAP. 429.--An Act To define and punish crimes in the District of Alaska and to provide a code of criminal procedure for said district. |
March 3, 1899.
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| Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America. on Congress assembled, That the penal and criminal laws of the United States of America and the procedure thereunder relating to the District of Alaska shall be as follows: |
Alaska. Criminal Code.
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| Title I. |
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| Chapter One. |
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| General Provisions. |
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| 1. Territorial area. |
2. Crimes and offenses, how punished.
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| Sec. 1. That the District of Alaska consists of that portion of the territory of the United States ceded by Russia by the treaty of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven. |
Territorial area. Vol. 15, p. 529.
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| Sec. 2. That the crimes and offenses defined in this Act, committed within the District of Alaska, shall be punished as herein provided. |
Crimes and offenses, how punished.
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| Chapter Two. |
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| OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON. |
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| 3. Murder, first degree. |
16. Mayhem.
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| 4. Murder by obstructing or injuring a railroad. |
17. Shooting, cutting, or stabbing with intent to kill, etc.
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| 5. Murder in the second degree. |
18. Assault with intent to kill or commit rape or robbery.
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| 6. Manslaughter. |
19 Dueling.
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| 7. Procuring another to commit self-murder. |
20. Posting another for not engaging in duel.
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| 8. Administering medicine, etc. to pregnant women. |
21. Assault, being armed with a cowhide.
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| 9. Physicians administering poison, etc., while in a state of intoxication. |
22. Pointing firearms at and discharging the same and injuring thereby.
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| 10. Negligent homicide. |
23. Administering poison.
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| 11. When killing of a human being justifiable. |
24. Assault with a dangerous weapon.
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| 12. Same subject. |
25. Assault or assault and battery.
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| 13. When killing of a human being excusable. |
26. Robbery, pocket picking.
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| 14. Rape. |
27. Kidnaping.
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| 15. Punishment for rape. |
28. Child stealing.
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29. Blackmailing.
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30. Libel.
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| Sec. 3. That whoever, being of sound memory and discretion, purposely, and either of deliberate and premeditated malice or by means of poison, or in perpetrating or in attempting to perpetrate, any rape, arson, robbery, or burglary, kills another, is guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall suffer death. |
Murder, first degree.
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| Sec. 4. That whoever maliciously places an obstruction upon a railroad or street railroad, or displaces or injures anything appertaining thereto, or does any other act with intent to endanger the passage of any locomotive or car, and thereby occasions the death of another, is guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall suffer death. That in all cases where the accused is found guilty of the crime of murder under this and the next preceding section, the jury may qualify their verdict by adding thereto "without capital punishment;" and whenever the jury shall return a verdict qualified as aforesaid the person convicted shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. |
Murder by obstructing or injuring a railroad.
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| Sec. 5. That whoever purposely and maliciously, except as provided in the last two sections, kills another, is guilty of murder in the second degree, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than fifteen years. |
Murder in the second degree.
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