SECT. XXV. Petty larceny shall be, where the goods stolen are
of less value than five dollars; whosoever shall be guilty thereof,
shall be forthwith put in the pillory for a quarter of an hour, shall
be condemned to hard labour for one year in the public works, and
shall make reparation to the persons injured.
SECT. XXVI. Robbery (* 36) or larceny of bonds, bills
obligatory, bills of exchange, or promissory notes, for the payment
of money or tobacco, lottery tickets, paper bills issued in the
nature of money, or certificates of loan on the credit of this
commonwealth, or of all or any of the United States of America, or
inspectors notes for tobacco, shall be punished in the same manner as
robbery or larceny of the money or tobacco due on, or represented by
such papers.
SECT. XXVII. Buyers (* 37) and receivers of goods taken by way
of robbery or larceny, knowing them to have been so taken, shall be
deemed accessaries to such robbery or larceny after the fact.
SECT. XXVIII. Prison-breakers, (* 38) also, shall be deemed
accessaries after the fact, to traitors or felons whom they enlarge
from prison (* 39).
SECT. XXIX. All attempts to delude the people, or to abuse
their understanding by exercise of the pretended arts of witchcraft,
conjuration, enchantment, or sorcery, or by pretended prophecies,
shall be punished by ducking and whipping, at the discretion of a
jury, not exceeding fifteen stripes (* 40).
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