SEC. 21. If any person shall challenge any other person to fight a duel in this Territory, or elsewhere, such person being resident of this Territory, or shall accept a challenge to fight a duel, or shall knowingly be the bearer of a challenge, for the purpose aforesaid, or shall be a second to any person who fights a duel, or shall aid, promote, or assist any duel, every such person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars, and shall moreover be rendered incapable of holding or being elected to any office of profit, trust or emolument, either civil or military, in this Territory, or of voting at any election within the same, and shall beimprisoned in the penitentiary, at hard labor, not less than one nor more than three years.

SEC. 22. Every person who shall fight a duel with any deadly weapon or weapons, and death ensues, shall be adjudged guilty of murder.

SEC. 23. On the trial of any person for any offence under the provisions of the twenty-first section of this act, if there was a written challenge to fight, or any other paper, it shall not be necessary, on the part of the prosecution, to produce such challenge or paper, but shall be sufficient to prove that there was a challenge or agreement to fight, either verbal or written, or that such person did fight or did agree to fight, as the case may be.