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§§ 7178-7182 § 7178. Soliciting or submitting to attempt at. Every woman who solicits of any person any medicine, drug or substance whatever and takes the same, or who submits to any operation or to the use of any means whatever, with intent thereby to procure a miscarriage, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both.

§ 7179. Concealing still birth or death of bastard. Every woman who endeavors either by herself or by the aid of others to conceal the still birth of an issue of her body, which if born alive would be a bastard, or the death of any such issue under the age of two years, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

CHAPTER 31.

CHILD STEALING.

§ 7180. Defined. Punishment. Every person who maliciously, forcibly or fraudulently takes or entices away any child under the age of twelve years, with intent to detain and conceal such child from its parent, guardian or other person having the lawful charge of such child, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding ten years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

CHAPTER 32.

BIGAMY, INCEST AND SODOMY.

§ 7181. Bigamy defined. Every person who, having been married to another who remains living, marries any other person, except in the cases specified in the next section, is guilty of bigamy.

§ 7182. Exception to last section. The last section does not extend:

1. To any person by reason of any former marriage, whose husband or wife has been absent for five successive years without being known to such within that time to be living; nor,

2. To any person by reason of any former marriage, whose husband or wife by such marriage has absented himself or herself from his wife or her husband and has been continually remaining without the United States for the space of five years together; nor, 1272