384 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

Graveyard Desecration.

1004, art. 27, sec. 216. 1888, art, 27, sec. 133. 1882, ch. 422, sec. 1.

230. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who shall
be convicted of removing or attempting to remove from any graveyard,
burial ground or vault in the State of Maryland any dead body which
shall have been buried in such graveyard, burial ground or vault, shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for not less than five iior more than fifteen years, unless such
person or persons shall have been authorized by the State's attorney
for Baltimore city or for the county in which such graveyard, burial
ground or vault may be situated to remove such dead body for the pur-
pose of ascertaining the cause of the death of the person whose body is
so removed, or for the purpose of reburial.

As to "Cemetery Companies," see article 23, section 144.

Ibid. sec. 217. 1888, art. 27, sec. 134. 1882, ch. 422, sec. 2.

231. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to apply
to the bodies of such persons as shall have been buried in Potter's field.

Ibid. sec. 218. 1888, art. 27, sec. 135. 1868, ch. 471, sec. 83. 1884, ch. 22.

1898, ch. 178.

232. Any person or persons, his, her or their aiders or abettors,
who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any
tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure placed in any ceme-
tery, or any building, wall, fence, railing for other work, for the use,
protection or ornament of any public or private cemetery in this State,
or shall wilfully destroy, cut. break or remove any tree, plant or shrub
within its limits, or who shall shoot or discharge any firearms within
said limits, or who shall be guilty of indecent or disorderly conduct
within said limits shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, or before any
justice of the peace of this State, shall be punished by fine not less
than five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment
in the county jail, or in the house of correction, for not less than thirty
days nor more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment
in the discretion of said justice or court, according to the gravity of the
offense. Any justice of the peace in this State, except civil justices
in the city of Baltimore, shall have jurisdiction under this section.

Gunning.

Ibid. sec. 219. 1888, art. 27, see. 136. 1860, art 30, sec. 67. 1728, ch. 7, sec. 7.
1892, ch. 655. 1900, ch. 419.

233. Every person who shall, upon any pretense whatever, come to
hunt with gun or dog upon the lands of another without leave or license
from the owner or possessors thereof first had and obtained shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before
some justice of the peace in the county where the offense is committed
be fined by said justice of the peace not less than five nor more than