108 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30
DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY.
1868, c. 56 repeals 1867, c. 153 and 1864, c. 247 [Sup. 80] and re-enacts the same
to read as follows:
1868, c. 153.
Trespass on
land and injur-
ing, &c, houses,
&c.
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42. Any person or persons who shall enter upon the
land of any other person or body corporate or politic
in this state, and shall wilfully or maliciously injure
or destroy any house, take and carry away any grow-
ing tree, or cut down a tree, or destroy a vine, plant,
shrubbery, root, vegetable, fruit or grain, or any fenc-
ing, cord wood or hoop poles, shall on conviction
thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and
after presentment and indictment by a grand jury,
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Fine.
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and conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor
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Imprisonment.
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more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in
the city or county jail not less than one month nor
more than two months, or be both fined and impri-
soned as aforesaid in the discretion of the court afore-
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To what conn-
ties applicable.
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said, and this article shall apply to Alleghany, Frede-
rick, Prince George's, Harford, Washington, Balti-
more, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Cecil,
Somerset, Carroll, Worcester, Anne Arundel, Mont-
gomery, St. Mary's, Charles, Howard, Dorchester,
Wicomico and Calvert counties.
In force and approved February 18, 1868.
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LARCENY.
1S6S, o. 214 repeals section 100 and re-enacts the same to read as follows:
1868, C 214.
Petty larceny.
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100. If any person shall feloniously steal, take and
carry away the personal goods of another under the
value of five dollars; or if any person shall break into
any shop, storehouse, tobacco house or warehouse,
although the same be not contiguous to or used with
any mansion house, and steal any money, goods or
chattels under the value of one dollar, the same order
and course of trial shall be had and observed as for
other simple larcenies, and being thereof convicted,
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