ART. 30.] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.

all proceedings to impose or recover the fine or penalty
by the first section of this act provided for ; proof of

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injury shall be prima facie evidence of the recklessness
or wilfulness therein provided for.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

CATTLE.

1870, c. 354 adds the following :

Evidence.

208. Every person convicted of wilfully and mali-
ciously stabbing, killing or destroying any bull, steer,
cow, heifer, or calf, not the property of such person,
and not in the act of trespassing on his enclosures,
shall undergo confinement in the penitentiary for not
less than one year nor more than four years.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.

DEFAULTERS.

1870, c. 361 adds the following :

1870, c 354.
Punishment
for wilfully
killing.

209. If any clerk, register of wills, sheriff, collector
of taxes, notary public, or other officer whose duty it
is to collect revenue due the state of Maryland, or any
county thereof, shall, after the receipt of the said reve-

1870,c.36l, s.2.

nue by him, wilfully detain the same in his possession,
and neglect to pay the same into the treasury of the
state, or to the county commissioners, or the proper
officer authorized to receive the same, for more than
sixty days after the day upon which it is made by law
his duty to pay the same, or if no particular day be
appointed by law for said payment, and such officer
shall detain any revenue due to the state, or to any
county thereof, and which it is his duty to collect, and
which he shall have collected and shall neglect to pay
the same into the treasury of the state, or to the county
commissioners, or the proper officer authorized to re-
ceive the same, for the space of six months after he
shall have so collected the same, such officer so offend-
ing in either case, shall be deemed to be a defaulter,

Collector wil-
fully detaining
state revenue
to be deemed
a defaulter.