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to burn or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of provisions,
or of military or of naval stores, belonging to this State, or sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of this State, or of wilfully or maliciously
burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn or
destroy, any military or naval stores, ship or vessel belonging
to this State, the United States, or any one of them, shall suffer
death by hanging, or be sentenced to the penitentiary for a
period not less than three nor more than ten years.

1888, art. 27, sec. 11. 1860, art. 30, sec. 7. 1751, ch. 7. 1845, ch. 381.

11. If any person shall maliciously set on fire any fence or
fencing, or any straw, stack or stacks or ricks of straw, or any
hay or mowed grass, or other grass, or any tobacco, he shall
on conviction thereof be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
less than two nor more than four years.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1860, art. 30, sec. 8. 1744, ch. 5. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 5.

1904, ch. 267.

12. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be convicted of the crime of wilfully and maliciously
burning any mill, distillery, manufactory, barn, meat house,
tobacco house, stable, warehouse, storehouse, granary, bar-
racks, distillery or other outhouse not parcel of any dwelling
house, whether the same shall be the property of the offender
or of any other person, with intent thereby to injure or defraud
any person, shall be deemed a felon, and shall, in the discretion
of the court, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than twenty years.

House v. House, 5 H. & J. 126. Jones v. Hungerford, 4 G. & J. 402.
Black v. State, 2 Md. 376. Kellenbeck v State, 10 Md. 438. Gibson v.
State, 54 Md. 447.

1904, ch. 267, sec. 12 A.

13. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to or
burn any school house, engine house, market house, scale
house, watch house, bridge or any other building or structure
not mentioned or included in the provisions of the preceding
section, with intent thereby to injure or defraud any person,
shall, on conviction therefor, be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not exceeding seven years.

1888, art. 27, sec. 13. 1860, art 30, sec. 9. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 5.

14. Any person who shall maliciously and wilfully attempt
to burn any dwelling house, whether inhabited or not, or any