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4 VI. Sacrilege, is committed by tealing from the temples any of the acred articles conecreated to divine purpoes, or by purloining any article in the immediate ue of the Sovereign: imilar guilt is incurred by counterfeiting the imperial eal, by adminitering to the Sovereign improper medicines, or, in general, by the commiion of any error or negligence, whereby the afety of his acred peron may be endangered.

VII. Impiety, is dicoverable in every intance of direpect or negligence towards thoe to whom we owe our being, and by whom we have been educated and protected.—It is likewie committed by thoe who inform againt, or inult, uch near relations while living, or who refue to mourn for their los, and to hew repect for their memory, when dead.

VIII. Discord, in families, is the breach of the legal or natural ties which are founded on our connexions by blood or marriage; under this head may be claed the crimes of killing, wounding, or maltreating any of thoe relations or connexions to whom, when deceaed, the ceremony of mourning is legally due.

IX. Inubordination, is the riing againt, or murdering, a uperior magitrate by an inferior; or any inurrection againt the magitrates in general, by the people.

X. Incet, is the co-habitation, or promicuous intercoure, or perons related to any of the degrees within which marriage is prohibited. The