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1825, c.76,§ 23, 3 Stor. L. U. S., 2006, a wilful and corrupt conspiracy to cast away, burn or otherwise destroy any ship or vessel, with intent to injure any underwriter thereon, or on the goods on board thereof, or any lender of money on such vessel, on bottomry or respondentia, is, by the laws of the United States, made felony, and the offender punishable by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment and confinement at hard labour, not exceeding ten years.—By the Revised Statutes of New York, vol. 2, p. 691, 692, it is enacted, that if any two or more persons shall conspire, either, 1, To commit any offence; or, 2, Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any offence; or, 3, Falsely to move or maintainany suit; or,4, Tocheat and defraud any person of any property by any means which are in themselves criminal; or, 5, To cheat and defraud any person of any property, by means which, if executed, would amount to a cheat, or to obtaining property by false pretences; or, 6, To commit any act injurious to the: public health, to public morals, or to trade and commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice, or the due administration of the laws; they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. No other conspiracies are there punishable criminally. And no agreement, except to commit a felony upon the person of another, or to commit arson or burunless some act besides such agreement be done to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement. Vide 1 Hawk. 444 to 454; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1138 to 1193; 3 Inst. 143; Com. Dig. Justices of the Peace, B 107; Burn’s Justice, Conspiracy; William’s Justice, Conspiracy; 4 Chit. Blacks. 92; Dick. Justice, Conspiracy; 1 Bac. Ab. 94; 2 Russ. on Cr. 553 to 574; 2 Mass. 329; Ib. 536; 5 Mass. 106; 2 Day, 205; Whart. Dig. Conspiracy; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 220; 7 Serg. & Rawle, 469; 4 Halst. R. 293; 5 Harr. & Johns. 317; 4 Wend. 229; 2 Stewart’s R. 360. For the French law, see Merl. Rép. mot Conspiration; Code Pénal, art. 89.

Defined under Conspiracy in A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States.