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LAWS OF MARYLAND.—1809.

into any .
shop, store-
bouse, and
stealing
under the
value of
one dollar.

same be not contiguous to, or used with, any mansion house,
and steal any money, goods or chattels, under the value of one
dollar, the same order and course of trial shall be had and
observed as for other simple larcenies, and being thereof con-
victed, shall be deemed guilty of petty larceny, and shall restore
the goods and chattels so stolen, or pay the full value thereof, to
the owner or owners thereof, and be further sentenced to undergo
a similar confinement for a period not less than three months
nor more than one year, under the same conditions as herein

7. Of rob-
bery or lar-
ceny of
bond, bills,
bank notes,
&c. of
wills, &c.

after expressed. 7th. Bobbery or larceny of any obligation or
bond, bill obligatory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes,
promissory note for the payment of money, lottery ticket, paper
bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the authority of
this state or of the United States, or any of them, or of any
last will and testament, or codicil, shall be punished in the
same manner as robbery or larceny of goods and chattels. 8th.

8. Of re-
ceiving sto-
len money,
goods,
bonds, bills,
notes, &c.

Every person who shall be duly convicted of the crime of
receiving any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the
same to be stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill
obligatory or bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment
of money, lottery ticket, bank note, paper bill of credit, certifi-
cate granted by or under the authority of this state or of the
United States, or any of them, knowing the same to be stolen,
shall restore such money, goods or chattels, or thing taken and
received, to the owner or owners thereof, or make restitution to
the value of the whole, or such part as shall not be restored,
and shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period
not less than three months nor more than ten years, to be dealt
with as herein after directed ; and such receiver may be prose-
cuted and punished, although the principal offender shall not

9. Of forg-
ing bank
notes.

have been convicted. 9th. Any person who shall, with a
fraudulent intent, employ an artist to engrave or etch any plate,
in imitation of the note or notes of any established bank within
this state, or of any bank which may hereafter be established
within this state, or which is or may be established by law in
any of the United States, or any person engaged in engraving or
etching such plate or plates, or any person in any manner en-
gaged in striking impressions from such plate or plates, or any
person who shall affix to such note or notes fraudulent or forged
signatures, or any person who shall, with fraudulent intent be
engaged in manufacturing of, or furnishing paper in imitation
of, any paper used for striking impressions of notes upon by any
established bank within this state, or any bank which may
hereafter be established within this state, or which is or may be
established by law in any of the United States, or any person
who shall be in any manner concerned in the altering, forging
or counterfeiting, any note of any bank now existing within this