206 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

3. If any person shall maliciously set fire to and burn any un-
tenanted dwelling house, he shall, on conviction thereof, be con-
fined in the penitentiary for a term not less than two years nor
more than ten years.

4. Every person, his aiders or abettors, who shall be convicted
of the crime of wilfully and maliciously burning any ship or
other vessel of seventeen feet keel or upwards, whether laden or
empty, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than twelve years.

5. If any person shall wilfully burn, or attempt or conspire to
burn, any court house, or county or public prison, or the peniten-
tiary, poor house, magazine or lazaretto, or public warehouse, or
any other building belonging to this State, or the different coun-
ties, cities or towns, or bodies corporate in this State, or the
office of the clerk or register of any court in this State, or the
State House of this State, or any public office contained therein,
or and public office in this State of any kind whatever, or church
or house of worship, college, academy, or school house, engine
house, market house, scale house, watch house, or public barrack,
such person and his aiders, abettors and counsellors, and each of
them, shall be deemed felons, and, on being convicted thereof,
shall suffer death, or be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
more than fifteen years.

6. Every person convicted of the crime of wilfully and mali-
ciously burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to
burn or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of provisions, or
of military or naval stores, belonging to this State, or subject to
the jurisdiction of this State, or of wilfully and maliciously burn-
ing or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn or destroy,
any military or naval stores, ship or vessel belonging to this I
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.

7. If any person shall maliciously set on fire any fence or fen-
cing, 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 con-
viction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than four years.