LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1809.

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ner following; that is to say, 1st. Every person duly convicted
of the crime of simple larceny to the value of five dollars, and
upwards, or as accessary thereto before the fact, shall restore the
money, goods or thing taken, to the owner or owners, or shall
pay to him, her or them, the full value thereof, and be sen-
tenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary house
herein after mentioned for a period of time not less than one
year nor more than fifteen years, under the same conditions as

affecting
private pro-
perty.
1. Of simple
larceny to
the value
of fire
dollars.

are herein after directed. 2d. Every person convicted of the
crime of robbery, or as accessary thereto before the fact, shall
restore the thing robbed or taken to the owner or owners,
or shall pay to him, her or them, the full value thereof, and be
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary
house fora period of time not less than three nor more than ten
years, under the same conditions as are herein after directed.

2. Of
robbery.

3d. Every person convicted of feloniously stealing, taking and
carrying away, any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass or mule, or
as accessary thereto before or after the fact, shall restore the
horse, mare, or animal stolen, to the owner or owners thereof,
or shall pay to him, her or them, the full value thereof, and also
undergo a similar confinement for a period not less than two
nor more than fourteen years, under the same conditions as are

3. Of steal-
ing any
horse,
mare, geld-
ing, colt,
ass or mule.

herein after directed. 4th. Every person or persons duly con-
victed of wilfully and maliciously stabbing, killing or destroying,
any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass or mule, not the property Ojf
such person, and not in the act of trespassing on his enclosures,
shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary house for a
period not less than one year nor more than four years, to be

4. Of stab-
bing, killing
or destroy-
ing, any
horse,
mare, geld-
ing, colt,
ass or mule,

treated as herein after directed. 5th. Every person who shall be
duly convicted of the crime of stealing any ship, sloop or other
vessel, of seventeen feet keel, or upwards, out of any place
within the body of any county, or on the Chesapeake bay, and
within the jurisdiction of the state of Maryland, and not within
the body of any county, or of the crime of feloniously taking
and carrying away any negro or other slave, or of the crime
of counselling, hiring, aiding or commanding, any person or
persons to commit either of the said offences, or of the crime
of being accessary to either of the said offences, shall restore
the vessel or slave stolen to the owner or owners thereof, or pay
him, her or them, the full value thereof, and also be sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary house for a
period of time not more than twelve years, to be treated as

5. Of steal-
ing ships,
sloops, or
other ves-
sels of
upwards of
seventeen
feet keel,
or of steal'
ing a slave.

as herein after prescribed. 6th. If any person shall feloniously
steal, take and carry away, the personal goods of another under
the value of five dollars, or if any person shall break into any
shop, store-house, tobacco-house or warehouse, although the
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6. Of steal-
ing under
the value
of five
dollars, or
of breaking