ART. 27] DESTROYING PBOPEBTY MALICIOUSLY. 337

1904, art. 27, sec. 79. 1888, art. 27, sec. 56. 1884, ch. 348, sec. 1.

87. Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall
break open or enter into any railroad car, then being upon the track of
any railroad company in this State, with intent maliciously to injure
or destroy such car, or any kind of goods and chattels therein being,
shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
less than one year nor more than five years.

Ibid. sec. 80. 1888, art. 27, sec. 57. 1884, ch. 348, sec. 2.

88. Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall
maliciously injure or destroy any railroad locomotive, tender, car or
carriage belonging to or in the use of any railroad company in this
State, or being upon the track of any railroad company in this State,
or who shall maliciously injure or destroy any kind of goods or chattels
deposited or contained in such railroad car or carriage shall upon con-
viction thereof be confined in the penitentiary for not less than one nor
more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 81. 1888, art. 27, sec. 58. 1884, ch. 348, sec. 3.

89. Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall be
convicted of the crime of breaking into or entering by force or other-
wise any railroad car then being in the possession or use of any railroad
company in this State with intent to steal any money, goods or chattels
contained in such railroad car shall be punished by imprisonment in the
penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 82, 1888, art. 27, sec. 59. 1884, ch. 348, sec. 4.
1890, ch. 498. 1892, ch. 628.

90. Any person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall be
convicted of the crime of breaking into or entering by force any rail-
road car then being in the possession or use of any railroad company in
this State, or then being upon the tracks of any railroad company in
this State, shall, in the discretion of the court, be imprisoned in the
penitentiary not less than two nor more than ten years, or in the house
of correction not exceeding three years, or in jail not exceeding one
year.

Ibid. sec. 83. 1898, ch. 400, secs. 59 A and B.

91. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wilfully con-
nect or disconnect any electrical conductors belonging to any company
using or engaged in the manufacture and supply of electric currents for
purposes of light, heat and power, or either of them, or to make any
connection with any such electrical conductors for the purpose of using
or wasting the electric current, or to in any wise tamper with any meter
used to register current consumed, or to interfere with the operation of
any dynamo or other electrical appliance of such company, or to tamper
with or interfere with the poles, wires or conduits used by such com-
panies, unless such person or persons shall be duly authorized by or be
in the employ of such company; provided, that nothing in this section