| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
6. Of breaking into
a shop, store-house,
&c. and
stealing to the value
of a dollar. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
dealt with according to law. 6th. Every person duly 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 accessary
thereto, shall restore the thing taken to the owner or owners thereof,
or shall pay him, her or them, the full value thereof, and be sentenced
to undergo a similar confinement fora period not less than
two nor more than twelve years, to be treated as herein after directed. |
IV. Punishments
of offences affecting
private property.
1. Of simple larceny
to the value of
five dollars.
2. Of robbery.
3. Of stealing any
horse, mare, gelding,
colt, ass or
mule.
4. Of stabbing,
killing, or destroying,
any horse,
mare, gelding,
cole, ass or mule.
5. Of stealing ships,
sloops, or other
vessels of upwards
of 17 feet keel, or
of stealing a slave. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the offences herein
after mentioned,
affecting private property, shall be punished in manner following;
that is to say, 1st. Every person duly convicted of the crime
of simple larceny to the value of five dollars, and upwards, or as
accessary thereto before the fact, shall restore the money, goods or
thing taken, to the owner or owners, or shall pay to him, her or
them, the full value thereof, and be sentenced to undergo a confinement
in the penitentiary-house herein after mentioned for a period
of time not less than one year nor more than fifteen years, under
the same conditions as are herein after directed. 2d. Every
person
convicted of the crime of robbery, or as accessary thereto before
the fact, shall restore the thing robbed or taken to the owner or owners,
or shall pay to him, her or them, the full value thereof, and be
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said penitentiary-house
for a period of time not less than three nor more than ten years,
under the same conditions as are herein after directed. 3d.
Every person
convicted of feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away,
any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass or mule, or as accessary
thereto before or after the fact, shall restore the horse, mare or
animal stolen, to the owner or owners thereof, or shall pay to him,
her of them, the full value thereof, and also undergo a similar confinement
for a period not less than two nor more than fourteen
years, under the same conditions as are herein after directed.
4th.
Every person or persons duly convicted of wilfully and maliciously
stabbing, killing or destroying, any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass
or mule, not the property of such person, and not in the act of trespassing
on his enclosures, shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary-house
for a period not less than one year nor more than four
years, to be treated as herein after directed. 5th. Every person
who
shall be duly 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 country, or on the Chesapeake Bay, and 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 (a), or of the crime of counselling,
hiring, aiding or commanding, any person or persons to commit
either of the said offences, or of the crime of being accessary to either
of the said offences, shall restore the vessel or slave stolen to
the owner or owners thereof, or pay him, her or them, the full value
thereof, and also be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the said
penitentiary-house for a period of time not more than twelve years,
(a) By 1818, ch. 157, if any
free person shall be convicted for having enticed,
persuaded, or assisted, any slave or servant to runaway, &c. or having
harboured
such runaway slave or servant, knowing him to be such, then such person
shall
be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall undergo a confinement
in the
penitentiary not exceeding six years. |
