CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1215

Larceny—Metallic Checks.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 328. 1912, sec. 295. 1904, sec. 271. 1888, sec. 166. 1882, ch. 240, sec. 2.

398. If any person shall steal, take and carry away any metallic check,
card or other device issued or delivered by any employer in this State to
his employes, having stamped, written or otherwise indicated thereon
any numerals or other characters intended to indicate the sum or sums
which may be due from the said employer to the said employes, he shall
be deemed a felon, and on conviction thereof shall be punished in the same
manner and to the same extent as if he had been convicted of stealing,
taking and carrying away lawful money of the United States, of the same
legal value as the sum or sums which the said metallic check, card or other
device may represent as being due from the said employer to any employe,
whether the same shall have been issued and delivered to any employe,
or only stamped or otherwise so prepared as to be a representation of value
in the hands of the holders thereof.

Larceny—Pipes, Water or Gas Fixtures.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 329. 1912, sec. 296. 1904, sec. 272. 1888, sec. 167. 1865, ch. 13.

399. If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry away any
pipe, water fixture or gas fixture, or any other article or thing of value
attached to or a part of any store, shop, dwelling-house, tobacco house or
warehouse, whether the same be occupied or not, or if any person shall
enter any store, shop, dwelling-house, tobacco house or warehouse, and shall
feloniously sever or separate from the freehold any pipe, water fixture or
gas fixture, or any other article, or anything attached or affixed thereto,
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.

Cited but not construed in Stansbury v. Luttrell, 152 Md. 565. (See notes to secs.
387 and 614.)

Larceny—Ships.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 330. 1912, sec. 297. 1904, sec. 273. 1888, sec. 168. 1737, ch. 2, sec. 4.

1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

400. 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, 1924, sec. 331. 1912, sec. 298. 1904, sec. 274. 1888, sec. 169. 1819, ch. 88.

401. If any person shall secretly and feloniously steal, take and carry
away any tobacco plants, while growing and belonging to any inhabitant