Note 726 — Chapter XVIII · PROBLEMS OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY
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Pub. Laws of Pa. (1887), 128; Pepper and Lewis, Digest (1896), I, 1318, 1319: penalty, when the woman child is between ten and sixteen, fine not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment not exceeding fifteen years, if she "was of good repute;" below ten, without this condition. Thus there is no sure protection beyond ten. No conviction when boy is under sixteen.