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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Firing unten-

the same be his own or the property of another, with intent

anted or un-
finished

thereby to injure or defraud any person, he shall, upon convic-

house.

tion therof, be confined in the penitentiary for a term of not

less than one nor more than ten years.

9. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously burn, or attempt

State House
and public

or conspire to burn, the State House of this State, or any part

buildings.

thereof, or any office contained therein, or the building of the

Commissioner of the Land Office, or any part thereof, or of

the penitentiary, or any court house, or any part thereof, or

any office contained therein, or any jail, poor house, magazine

or lazaretto, or any public warehouse, or any other public office

or building belonging to this State, or to any county, city or

town of this State ; and whoever shall wilfully and maliciously

burn, or attempt or conspire to burn, any church, college, uni-

versity, academy, home, hospital or infirmary, whether the

same be public or private property, every such person, his

aiders, abettors or counsellors, and each of them, shall be

deemed felons, and, upon conviction, shall, in the discretion of

the court, suffer death, or be confined in the penitentiary for not

more than twenty years.

12. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who

Maliciously

shall be convicted of the crime of wilfully and maliciously

burning
private

burning any mill, distillery, manufactory, barn, meat house,

property.

tobacco house, stable, warehouse, storehouse, granary, bar-

racks, distillery or other outhouse not parcel of any dwelling

house, whether the same shall be the property of the offender

or of any other person, with intent thereby to injure or defraud

Shall be
deemed a

any person, shall be deemed a felon, and shall, in the discretion

felon.

of the court, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than

two nor more than twenty years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That two new sections be and the

New sections

same are hereby added to said Article 27 of the Code of Public

added.

General Laws, to be numbered and known as Sections 12A

and 291D, respectively, and to read as follows :

12A. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to or

Imprisonment
for burning

burn any school house, engine house, market house, scale

school house,

house, watch house, bridge or any other building or structure

market
house, etc.

not mentioned or included in the provisions of the preceding

section of this Article, under this sub-title, with intent thereby

to injure or defraud any person, shall, on conviction therefor,

be sentenced to the penitentiary for not exceeding seven years.

291D. In any indictment for arson or burning, where it shall

be necessary to allege that the person or persons accused did