318 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 25. 18SS. art. 27, sec. 22. 1860, art. 30, sec. 16.
1722, ch. 8, sees. 3, 4.

26. The penalties incurred under sections 23 and 24 shall be recov-
ered by indictment, which shall contain as particular a description of
the place, and to whose lands the boundaries relate which have been set
up or destroyed, as possible, and one-half of such penalty shall go to the
informer.

1906, ch. 782.

27. Any person or persons who shall remove, break or otherwise
destroy or mutilate any monument or monuments marking any boun-

dary line between the State of Maryland and any adjacent State, or
between any counties of the State of Maryland, shall be; guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court having criminal
jurisdiction in any county on a boundary line of which such monument
shall have been situated when so removed, broken, destroyed or muti-
lated, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for each and every
offense.

Any person or persons who shall remove, destroy or mutilate any
temporary stakes or marks placed upon any of the boundary lines speci-
fied in the preceding paragraph of this section, for the temporary estab-
lishment of such lines, or any of them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof in any Court haying criminal jurisdiction
in any county on a boundary line of which such temporary stake shall
have been situate when so removed, destroyed or mutilated, shall be
fined not more than twenty-five dollars for each and every offense.

Any person or persons who shall have in his or their possession any
monument heretofore placed or prepared to be placed upon any of the
boundary lines mentioned in the first paragraph of this section, shall
upon demand being made for the same by the superintendent of the
geological survey for the time being appointed by the commission, estab-
lished by the Act of the General Assembly passed at its session of the
year 1896 and known as Chapter 51 thereof, or by any person by him
duly authorized, surrender and deliver the same to the said superin-
tendent, or to his said representative; and upon failure of any such
person on demand so to surrender and deliver such monument as here-
inbefore required, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof in any court having criminal jurisdiction in
the county in which such person shall have such monument in his pos-
session, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each and

every offense.

All fines collected under any portion of this section shall be paid into
the common school fund of the county in which such fine shall be im-
posed.