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with intent to feloniously steal, take and carry away the same or any part
thereof, he shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be punished by im-
prisonment in the county or city jail, or the penitentiary, at the discretion
of the court, for not less than one year nor more than eight years; and it
shall not be necessary to charge in the indictment that the article or things
were attached or affixed to or a part of the freehold.

Larceny—Ships.

An. Code, sec. 297. 1904, sec. 273. 1888, sec. 168. 1737, ch. 2, sec. 4. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

330. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of stealing any
ship, sloop or other vessel of seventeen feet keel or upwards, out of any
place within the body of any county, or on the Chesapeake bay, within the
jurisdiction of the State of Maryland, and not within the body of any
county; or of the crime of counselling, hiring, aiding or commanding any
person to commit either of said offenses, or of the crime of being accessory
thereto, shall restore the vessel to the owner thereof, or pay him the full
value thereof, and also be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than
twelve years nor less than eighteen months.

Larceny—Tobacco Plants.

An. Code, sec. 298. 1904, sec. 274. 1888, sec. 169. 1819 ch. 88.

331. If any person shall secretly and feloniously steal, take and carry
away any tobacco plants, while growing and belonging to any inhabitant
of this.State, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall suffer such pun-
ishment and undergo such confinement in the penitentiary as if the said
tobacco plants had been feloniously stolen, taken and carried away after
the same had been severed from the freehold.

Letters—Wrongfully Opening.

An. Code, sec. 299. 1904, sec. 275. 1888, sec. 170. 1713, ch. 2, sec. 8. 1790, ch. 51, sec. 11.

332. If any person whatsoever shall presume to take and break open
any letter whatsoever, not being unto him directed, or not having special
license from the person to whom the same is directed, his executors or ad-
ministrators, so to do, he shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer imprison-
ment for six days and be fined fifteen dollars, one-half to the State and
the other half to the informer.

An. Code, sec. 300. 1904, sec. 276. 1888, sec. 171. 1713, ch. 2, sec. 9. 1790, ch. 51, sec. 11.

333. If any person shall wilfully break the seal of any letter or pack-
age belonging to the public, he shall, on conviction thereof, be fined two
hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the State.

Liquor Dealers—Giving Away of Food by.

An. Code, sec. 301. 1908, ch. 597.

334. Any person engaged in the sale or barter of spirituous, malt or
intoxicating liquors, and licensed under the laws of Maryland, to engage
in such sale or barter, who shall directly or indirectly give or offer to