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Writs of Error, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Court of Admiralty, Inferior or County Court, or any Court of Record that hall be etablished in this State, or before any Commiioner or Commiioners authorized to take Depoitions to be given in Evidence in any uch Court, or who hall in the Manner, or by any the Means aforeaid, unlawfully and corruptly procure or uborn any Witnes or Witnees, which hall from and after the aid Tenth Day of May be worn to give Tetimony for the Purpoe or perpetuating the ame, every uch Offender of the ame, being lawfully convicted in any Court having Cognizance thereof, hall tand in the Pillory one Hour, have his or her right Ear nailed thereunto, and be further punihed by Fine and Imprionment, at the Dicretion of the Court; and every uch Offender hall be dicredited, and diallowed for ever to be worn as a Witnes in any Courts of Record, before Commiioners, or worn to give Tetimony for the Purpoe of perpetuating the ame as aforeaid.

II. AND be it Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That every Peron who hall after the aid Tenth Day of May, either by the Subornation, unlawful Procurement, initer Peruaion or Means of any other, or by his or her own Act, Conent or Agreement, wilfully and coprruptly commit any Manner of wilful Perjury by his or her Depoition, in any of the Courts before mentioned, or when being examined before Commiioner or Commiioners authorized to take Depoitions to be given in Evidence in uch Court, or when examined for the Purpoe of perpetuating Tetimony, every uch Offender of the ame, being lawfully convicted in any Court having Cognizance thereof, hall tand in the Pillory One Hour, having his or her Ears nailed during the whole Time; and at the Expiration of the aid Hour both Ears of the Offender hall be cut off and evered from the Head, leaving them nailed on the Pillory until the etting of the Sun; and the Offender hall be dicredited, and diallowed for ever to be worn  as a Witnes in any Court of this State, before Commiioners, or for the Purpoe of perpetuating Tetimony.

III. AND be it Enacted, by the Authority aforeaid, That ever Peron who hall after the aid Tenth Day of May, in any of the Courts aforeaid, or when examined before any Commiioner or Commiioners, or for the Purpoe of perpetuating Tetimony, commit or make any fale, wilful, corrupt Affirmation, in the Mode of Affirmation ued, or that hall be ued by the Quakers, Moravians, and Menonits, every uch Offender of the ame, being lawfully convicted in any Court having Cognizance thereof, hall uffer all the Pains, Diabilities, and Punihments, which by this Act are ordained for wilful corrupt Perjuryl and alo ever Peron who hall uborn, or unlawfully procure, any uch fale, wilful, and corrupt Affirmation, to be committed or made, hall uffer all the Pains, Diabilities, and Punihments, which by the this Act are ordained for the unlawful Procurement and Subornation of wilful Perjury. 