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Excerpt from Manual of Crimes and Their Punishments
The abandonment in any highway, street, field or build ing of any child under the age of six years by its parent, guardian, or other person to whose custody such child has been confided, with intent wholly to abandon it. Imprisonment in a State prison not less than two nor more than ten years, or in a county jail not to ex oecd one year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
