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DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY.

38. If any person shall cut or destroy any tobacco plants be-
longing to any other person, or shall cause the same to be done,
or shall by any means cause or excite any person to cut or
destroy any tobacco or tobacco plants belonging to any other
person, on conviction thereof, he shall pay to the party grieved
five hundred dollars, and suffer six months' imprisonment, and
shall also remain in prison till the said sum be satisfied. And if
the offender shall not be able to pay the said sum of money, then
he shall remain in prison, twelve months.

39. Every person convicted of wilfully and maliciously stab-
bing, killing, or destroying any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass or
mule, not the property of such person, and not in the act of tres-
passing on his enclosures, shall undergo a confinement in the
penitentiary for not less than eighteen months nor more than
four years.

40. If any person shall enter into any dwelling house, out
house, stable, barn, warehouse, store house, banking house,
factory, work shop, court house, church, mill house, or any
building occupied in part or in whole by any of the public mu-
nicipal or private corporations of this State, or upon any vessel,
or upon any yard where lumber, coal, or any sort of goods and -
chattels are deposited or kept for the purpose of trade, with the
intent maliciously to injure or destroy any of the buildings afore-
said, or any part thereof, or any property or effects thereon being
found, or any property or effects deposited or kept in or upon
any vessel or yard, or with the intent to slay, kill, maim, or tar
and feather any person being in or upon any of the premises
aforesaid, upon conviction thereof, he shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than twenty
years.

41. Any person who shall advisedly and maliciously, with the
intent to injure the owner of any land, house or building, cut
down any tree, or cut down, break, dig or pull up, or in any
manner destroy or injure, any growing grain, shrubs, herbs,
roots, vines or vegetables, or shall cut, break, pull off, destroy
or injure any part of any house or other building, or of any wall
or fence, or any ornament or other valuable article attached to
any house or other building, wall or fence, shall, on conviction
thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined