[1165] Acts and Laws (1750), 144.
[1166] Pub. Stat. Laws (1808), I, 478, 479 n. 4.
[1167] The law forbidding such unions was repealed in May, 1816: Pub. Stat. Laws (1816), 261.
[1168] In Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island such unions are void; in the other three states they are both void and incestuous; but in Vermont and Massachusetts they are void only when solemnized in the state; while in all the issue is illegitimate: Pub. Stat. of N. H. (1891), 493; Pub. Stat. of Mass. (1882), 808, 809, 1166; Gen. Laws of R. I. (1896), 621, 1000; Vermont Stat. (1894), 500, 505; Gen. Stat. of Conn. (1902), 1085; Rev. Stat. of Maine (1884), 520, 903.
[1169] In Rhode Island marriage or carnal connection between persons so related is punishable by imprisonment of from five to twenty years: Gen. Laws (1896), 1001; in Connecticut, by two to five years' imprisonment: Gen. Stat. (1887), 343; in New Hampshire, by a fine of not exceeding $500 or imprisonment not exceeding three years: Pub. Stat. (1891), 728; in Massachusetts, by confinement in state's prison not exceeding twenty years, or in jail not exceeding three years: Pub. Stat. (1882), 1166; in Maine, one to ten years' imprisonment: Rev. Stat. (1884), 903; in Vermont, confinement in state's prison not more than five years or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or both: Vermont Stat. (1894), 902, 903.
[1170] Pub. Stat. Laws (1808), 478, 479 n. 4. See chap, xii, sec. iv.
[1171] For adultery the Massachusetts statute prescribed the gallows, whipping, and the scarlet badge; Act of Feb. 17, 1785; Laws of the Com. of Mass., 1780-1816, I, 217; and the gallows with fine, whipping, or imprisonment appears in the early New Hampshire laws: Laws of the State (1794), 294, 295, 285.
[1172] So by implication in Maine: Wright, Report, 39 n. k. Cf. Vermont Stat. (1894), 506 (voidable); Pub. Stat. of Mass. (1882), 809.
[1173] Rev. Stat. of Maine (1884), 515; Vermont Stat. (1894), 506 (voidable); Pub. Stat. of Mass. (1882), 809; Gen. Laws of R. I. (1896), 621.
[1174] Vermont Stat. (1894), 506, 507 (voidable).