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ARSON

            INDEX TO THE LAWS.

to confinement in the Penitentiary not less than
2 nor more than 12 years,
    Every person, his aiders, &c. convicted of wilfully
burning, or attempting or conspiring to burn, any
court-house, prison, penitentiary, poor house, magazine
or lazaretto, or public warehouse, or any other
building belonging to the state or the different counties,
cities, towns or corporations, or the office of the clerk
or register of any court, or the state house, or any public
office thereon, or of any kind whatever, or church
or house of worship, college, academy or public school
house, engine house, market house, scale house, watch
house, or public barrack, to suffer death by hanging,
or to be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary
not more than 15 years,
    Every person convicted of wilfully and maliciously
burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to
burn or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of provisions,
or of military and naval stores, belonging to
the state, or any military or naval stores ship or vessel
belonging to this state or the United States, or any of
them, to suffer death by hanging, or to be sentenced to
confinement in the penitentiary not less than 3 nor
more than 10 years,

    Rules and regulations by which the militia of this
state shall be governed,
    The militia subject to the articles of war, when called
into actual service,

    See Arms.  Militia.

    College founded in the city or precincts of Baltimore,

    See Larceny.

    Every person convicted of an assault with intent to
rob, murder, or commit a rape, to be sentenced to confinement
in the penitentiary not less than 2 nor more
than 10 years,
    Any person apprehended, having upon him a pistol,
cutlass, &c. with intent feloniously to assault any
person, to be deemed a rogue and vagabond, and on
conviction sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary
not less than three months nor more than two years,

    See Plate.

    Copies of the levy lists to be sent annually to the
clerks for the information of the general assembly,
    Any judge of the several judicial districts may be
removed by the governor, upon the address of the general
assembly, provided that two thirds of all the
members of each house concur in such address,
    An account of taxes on chancery proceedings to be
annually laid by the register before the general assembly,
    The assembly not to be called on the death, resignation,
or removal out of the state of the governor, but
the first named of the council to qualify and act as
such,
    A statement of the proceedings of the treasurer in
pursuance of the act more effectually to secure the collection
to the public revenue, to be annually laid before
the general assembly,
    The governor and council to lay before the general
assembly annually, during the first week of the session,
a statement of the profit and loss of the penitentiary,

Session.  Ch. S.
 

  1809      138    5
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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  1811      182      4

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  1817      144
 
 
 
 

 1809      138      4
 
 
 

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  1801       74     27

  1804        55
Confirmed by
  1805        16

  1804        64    2

June 1809 16
Confirmed by
 1809        11
 

  1809      127    6

 ——      138   47

 

 

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