[708] _Laws of Kan._ (1887), c. 150, § 1: _Gen. Stat._ (1901), 437: penalty, five to twenty years in prison.
[709] Act of Dec. 18, 1890, amending an act of March 14, 1890, which fixed the age at fourteen: _Laws of Wyo._ (1890), 130: _ibid._ (1890-91), 85, 86; _Rev. Stat._ (1899), 1236; penalty, rape, with imprisonment "not less than one year or during life."
[710] Raised from fourteen: _Laws of Neb._ (1895), 314, 315; _Comp. Stat._ (1901), 1409: penalty three to twenty years in prison. But the value of the law is lessened by the provision that it shall not apply in case of a girl over fifteen if "previously unchaste."
[711] _Laws of Col._ (1895), 155: penalty, one to twenty years in prison; raised from sixteen to eighteen.
[712] Raised from ten to fourteen in 1893, and advanced to eighteen in 1895: penalty, imprisonment for life or not less than five years. Compare _Rev. Stat. of Idaho_ (1887), 733; _Laws_ (1893), 10, 11; _Laws_ (1895), 19; and _Penal Code_ (1901), 134, 139.
[713] Raised from sixteen: _Laws of N. Y._ (1895), c. 460; BIRDSEYE'S _Rev. Stat._ (1901), III, 3012: rape in second degree; penalty, not more than ten years in prison; rape in first degree, with not less than twenty years in prison, when an imbecile, etc.
[714] _Laws of Utah_ (1896), 87; _Rev. Stat._ (1898), 902, 877: felony, penalty, not more than five years in prison.
[715] From 1881 to 1897 the age in Washington was twelve: _cf._ _Laws_ (1897), 19; BALLINGER'S _Codes and Stat._ (1897), II, 1951, note. Present penalty, imprisonment for life or any term of years.
[716] Abuse of a female below eighteen is now made rape in the first degree: _Laws of N. D._ (1903), 200.
[717] _Laws of Del._ (1889), 951; _ibid._ (1895), 192; _Rev. Stat._ (1893), 924: when below seven, rape, with death penalty: when between seven and eighteen, misdemeanor, punished by not more than seven years in prison or a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or both, at the discretion of the court. _Cf._ GARDENER, in _Arena_, XIV, 411, 412.
[718] _Gen. Laws of Minn._ (1891), c. 90, § 1, p. 162; _Stat._ (1894), II, 1747: penalty, confinement in the state prison for life, when the girl is under ten; when between ten and fourteen, seven to thirty years; between fourteen and sixteen, one to seven years in state prison, or in county jail three months to one year.