ART. 72.] CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC.

felonious intent to convert the same to his own use, shall be deemed
a felony; and every white person or free negro guilty of the same,

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upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than five years.

Punishment

44. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be convicted
before any court exercising criminal jurisdiction at the place where
the offender may be arrested, or may reside, of the crime of steal-
ing, cutting away, or in any manner wilfully injuring any of the
buoys, their mooring chains and stones, which are now moored, or
may hereafter be moored, in the Patapsco river, or the Chesapeake
bay, by the direction of the insurance companies of the city of

Id s 103
1817, c 86
Stealing buoys,
etc , in bay, or
Patapsco river.

Baltimore, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for a period of not
less than eighteen months nor more than seven years, at the discre-
tion of the court.

Punishment

45. 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 punishment and undergo such confinement in the peni-
tentiary as if the said tobacco plants had been feloniously stolen,
taken, and carried away after the same had been severed from the
freehold.

Id s 104
1819, c 88,
1865, c 13
Stealing, etc, of
tobacco plants

46. 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 ar-
ticle, or anything attached or affixed thereto, with intent to felo-
niously 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 dis-
cretion of the court, for not less than one year nor more than eight

1865, c 13
stealing pipes,
water orgins
fixtures, etc,
attached to
scires, dwell-
ings, etc.

years; and it shall not be necessary to charge in the indictment
that the articles or things were attached or affixed to or a part of
the freehold

Indictment.

47. E very person convicted of feloniously stealing, taking and
carrying away any horse, mare, gelding, colt, ass, or mule, or as ac-
cessory thereto before or after the fact, shall restore the horse, mare,
or animal stolen, to the owner thereof, or shall pay to him the full

Art 30, s 68
1744, c 20, s 1;
1799, c 61, s 1 ,
1809, c 138, s 6
Horse stealing

value thereof, and shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than two nor more than fourteen years.

RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS.

Punishment.

48. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of receiv-
ing any stolen money, goods, or chattels, knowing the same to be
stolen, or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obligatory, or bill
of exchange, promissory note for the payment of money, bank note,

Art 30, s 163
1809, c 138, s 6
Receiving
stolen goods.