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The Maryland Code : Public General Laws and Public Local Laws, 1860
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210 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed-
ing three months, or both, according to the nature and aggrava-
tion of the offence.

20. If any candidate at an election to be held under the Con-
stitution and laws of this State, or any other person whatever,
shall at any time before or on the day of any election, give or
bestow, or directly or indirectly promise any gift or reward to
secure any person's vote or ballot at any such election, or shall
keep, or suffer to be kept, any house, tent, booth, or other accom-
modation in any part of any district at any time during the day
of holding such election, and before the close thereof, at his ex-
pense, where any victuals or intoxicating liquors shall be gra-
tuitously given or dealt out to voters, every such person or can-
didate so offending shall, on conviction thereof in the court of
the county or city wherein such offence may be committed, be
fined at the discretion of the court a sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and suffer such imprisonment as the court may
adjudge, not exceeding six months, and such other penalties as
are prescribed by the Constitution, one-half of the fine to go to
the informer.

BURGLARY.

21. Every person convicted of the crime of burglary, or as
accessory thereto before the fact, shall restore the thing taken
to the owner thereof, or shall pay him the full value thereof,
and be sentenced to the penitentiary not less than three nor
more than ten years.

22. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall be convicted of the crime of breaking a dwelling house in
the day time, with intent to commit murder or felony therein, or
breaking a store house, warehouse, or other out house, in the day
or night, with an intent to commit murder or felony therein,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor
more than ten years.

23. Every person convicted of the crime of breaking into any
shop, store house, tobacco house, or warehouse, although the
same be not contiguous to or used with any mansion house, and
stealing from thence any money, goods or chattels, to the value
of one dollar or upwards, or as being accessory thereto, shall
restore the thing taken to the owner thereof, or shall pay him

 

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