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dictment, one-half to the use of the county, the other half to the
informer; and in case the said sum shall not be paid, or secured
to be paid, within thirty days, then such person shall be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for any term not exceeding five years
nor less than eighteen months.

LARCENY.

98. Every person convicted of the crime of simple larceny, to
the value of five dollars or upwards, or as accessory thereto
before the fact, shall restore the money, goods or thing taken, to
the owner, or shall pay to him the full value thereof, and be
sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than one year nor
more than fifteen years.

99. Every person who shall be 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, 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 com-
manding any person to commit either of the said offences, or of
the crime of being accessory to either of the said offences, shall
restore the vessel or slave stolen to the owner thereof or pay
him the full value thereof, and also be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not more than twelve years nor less than eighteen
months.

100. 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 same be not conti-
guous 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 the'reof convicted, he 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 thereof, and
be further sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than
eighteen months.

101. Robbery or larceny of any obligation or bond, bill obliga-
tory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes, promissory notes