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Lot 526
[CIVIL WAR] -- [CRIME & PUNISHMENT]. Beware of Perjury! A Penitentiary Offence under the New Constitution. Baltimore, MD: John W. Woods, [1860s?].
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$688
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[CIVIL WAR] -- [CRIME & PUNISHMENT]. Beware of Perjury! A Penitentiary Offence under the New Constitution. Baltimore, MD: John W. Woods, [1860s?].

14 x 17 in. letterpress broadside (minor toning, old creases); framed to 19 x 23 in. (not examined out of frame). 

An illustrated broadside warning the public of new provisions against "the False Taking of the Oath" which will be prosecuted with "Condemnation to the State Penitentiary." Maryland has had four constitutions, the first of 1776, a second voted upon in 1851, the third adopted during the Civil War in 1864, and the final constitution was ratified in 1867. The printer John W. Woods was active in Baltimore during the 1860s, suggesting this was published in the wake of the third or fourth constitution. 

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Broadsides, Ephemeral Americana, and Historical Documents
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