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336 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27
one year, nor more than three years, or in the house of correction not
exceeding three years, or in the city or county jail not exceeding one
year, or be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred
dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned in jail as aforesaid.
1904, art. 27, sec. 76. 1888, art. 27, sec. 53. 1867, ch. 135.
84. If any person unlawfully and maliciously shall disfigure, cut,
mutilate, injure or damage any church, house of worship, its pews, seats,
walls, windows, shutters, trees, tombstones, fencing, inclosures or other
property in or belonging thereto, of any parsonage, its furniture, trees,
fencing or inclosures, near and belonging to the same, he shall, on con-
viction before a justice of the peace or the circuit court for the county
or criminal court of Baltimore, where the said property may be situated,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined, in the discretion of the
said justice or court, in a sum of money not less than three dollars nor
more than fifty dollars for any one offense, and shall stand committed
to the public jail of the county or city till the fine and fees shall be paid.
Ibid. sec. 77. 1888, art. 27, sec. 54. 1882, ch. 66.
85. Every person who shall feloniously steal or take, or who shall
maliciously mutilate, injure or disfigure by writing, marking, cutting,
tearing or otherwise, any book, map, picture, engraving, manuscript or
other property of any public library or circulating library, or library
belonging to the State of Maryland, or to any city or public body or
incorporated institution shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-
viction thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be
imprisoned for not more than three months, or in the discretion of the
court, may be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid.
Ibid. sec. 78. 1888, art. 27, sec. 55. 1884, ch. 382.
86. Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises of any
other person, whether such other person be. the owner or lessee of said
property or premises, and wilfully and maliciously injure any ice upon
any pond or stream of water upon said land so as to injuriously affect
the quality of the same as an article for sale or use, or who shall from
beyond the property or premises of any such owner or lessee wilfully
and maliciously thereon cast or discharge upon any such ice any sub-
stance whatever which shall so injure the same shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars, or imprisoned for thirty
days, in the discretion of the court; and the ownership in said ice may
be laid in the indictment to be either in any of the persons who have at
the time of the commission of said act the right to gather said ice for
use or sale as owner or lessee of said land on which said pond or stream
may be situated, or in any other person who has the legal right to gather
the said ice for sale or use by license from or contract with such owner
or lessee.
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