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the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Worcester County after this Act be-
comes effective in taxing costs in criminal cases to be paid by the prisoner
or traverser shall include the usual appearance fee, which shall be pay-
able to the Sheriff as aforesaid for the use of the County.
TRESPASS.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 267. 1920 Code, sec. 455.
337. If any person shall cut down or cause to bo cut down, or induce
any person to cut down, any timber of a size not less than those commonly
used for hoop-poles, with intent to steal the same, or any part thereof,
within the limits of said County, he, his aiders and abettors, having knowl-
edge of such intent to steal, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be
sentenced to such punishment as is or may be prescribed by law for feloni-
ously stealing goods or chattels to the value of the trees which shall be cut
down as aforesaid, and of the injury thereby occasioned.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 268'. 1920 Code, sec. 456.
338. Any person who shall advisedly and maliciously, with the intent
to injure the owner of any land, house or building in said County, cut
down any tree, or cut down, break, dig or pull up, or in any manner de-
stroy or injure, any growing grain, shrubs, herbs, roots, vines or vegeta-
bles, or shall cut, break, pull off, destroy or injure any part of any house
or other building, or of any wall or fence, or any ornament or other valu-
able article attached to any house or other building, wall or fence, in said
County, shall on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor,
and shall be fined and imprisoned, or both, in the discretion of the Court
before which he shall be tried and convicted.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 269. 1920 Code, sec. 457.
339. Any person who shall enter upon or cross over the premises or
private property of any person in Worcester County, after having had a
special written notice served upon him by the owner of said property, or
by his agent, not to cross over or enter upon said premises or private prop-
erty, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
before some Justice of the Peace of said County be fined by said Justice
not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, and in default of payment
of said fine, together with costs of prosecution, shall be by said Justice of
the Peace committed to the County jail for a period of twenty days.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 24, sec. 270. 1920 Code, sec. 458.
340. All fines collected under the foregoing section shall be paid by
the Justice of the Peace before whom such conviction shall be had, and
whose duty it is hereby made to pay the same over to the County School
Commissioners of said County within a period of thirty days after having
received the same.
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