ART. 72.] . CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC.

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court aforesaid, and this article shall apply to Alleghany, Frederick,
Prince George's, Harford, Washington, Baltimore, Kent, Queen
Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Cecil, Somerset, Carroll, Worcester, Anne
Arundel, Montgomery, St. Mary's, Charles, Howard, Dorchester,
Wicomico, and Calvert counties.

To what coun-
ties applicable.

84. If any person unlawfully and maliciously shall disfigure, cut,
mutilate, injure or damage any church, house of worship, its pews,
seats, walls, windows, shutters, trees, tombstones, fencing, in clos-
ures, or other property in or belonging thereto, or any parsonage,
its furniture, trees, fencing, or inclosures near and belonging to the
same, he shall, on conviction before a justice of the peace or the
Circuit Court of the county or city where the said property may be
situated, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in the
discretion of the said justice or court, in a sum of money not less

1867, c 135
Disfiguring,
etc , church,
property.

than three nor more than fifty dollars for any one offence, and shall
stand committed to the public jail of the county or city till the fine
and fee shall be paid.

CEMETERIES

Punishment.

85. Any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, in-
jure, or remove any tomb, monument, or gravestone, or other struc-
ture placed in any cemetery, or any fence, railing or other work
for the protection or ornament of any cemetery, or shall wilfully
destroy, cut, break or remove any tree, plant, or shrub within its
limits, or who shall shoot or discharge any firearms within said
limits, shall be considered as guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, shall be punished

1868, c 471, s 83.
Injuring, etc ,
tombs, monu-
ments, etc.

Firearms.

by-fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggrava-
tion of the offence, not less than five nor more than fifty dollars.

BOUNDARIES.

Penalty.

86. No person, under any pretence whatsoever, shall cut down or
otherwise destroy any boundary or bounded trees, either of his own
lands or of the lands of any other person whatsoever, even although
such boundary or bounded trees should stand within the person's

Art 30, s 14
1722,c 8, s 2
Destruction of
boundaries or
bounded trees.
20 Md. 441.

own land so cutting down and destioying the same, under the
penalty of one hundred dollars for every such offence.

Penalty.

87. If any person shall, without lawful authority, either at
random or for his own pleasure, bound any tree or trees in the
woods or upon his own lands, or shall bound any tree or trees, or
set up other boundaiies for his own or others' land, in lieu and place
of any original boundary or bounded tree that is any way decayed
or destroyed, without first giving notice to all persons concerned in
such boundaries of the time and place proposed for setting up or
making such new boundaries, or that upon the failure of the per-
sons concerned in such lands (upon notice, or when notice cannot
be given), being present at the time and place appointed, shall not
take with him four substantial freeholders of his neighborhood at

Id s. 15
1722, c 8, s 3.
Penalty for
bounding trees
or setting up
boundaries