462 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

house of this State, or any public office contained therein, or any
public office in this State of any kind whatever, or church or
house of worship, college, academy, or school house, engine
house, market house, scale house, watch house, or public barrack,
such person and his aiders, abettors and counsellors, and each of
them, shall be deemed felons, and, on being convicted thereof,
shall suffer death, or be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
more than fifteen years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 6. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8.

10. Every person convicted of the crime of wilfully and mali-
ciously burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn
or destroy, any public arsenal or magazine of provisions, or of
military or naval stores, belonging to this State, or subject to the
jurisdiction of this State, or of wilfully or maliciously burning or
destroying, or attempting or conspiring to burn or destroy, any
military or naval stores, ship or vessel belonging to this State, the
United States, or any one of them, shall suffer death by hanging,
or be sentenced to the penitentiary for a period not less than three
nor more than ten years.

Ibid, sec 7. 1744, ch. 5, sec. 2 1751, ch. 7. 1845, ch. 381.

11. If any person shall maliciously set on fire any fence or
fencing, or any straw, stack or stacks or ricks of straw, or any hay
or mowed grass, or other grass, or any tobacco, he shall, on con-
viction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than four years.

Ibid, sec 8. 1744, ch. 5. 1809, ch. 133, sec. 5.

12. Every person, his aiders, abettors or counsellors, who shall
be convicted of the crime of wilfully burning any mill, distillery,
manufactory, barn, meat-house, tobacco-house, stable, warehouse,
or other out-house not parcel of any dwelling-house, being empty
or having therein any tobacco, wheat, rye, oats, Indian corn, bar-
ley, flax, hemp, hay, or other country produce, horse or horses,
cattle or goods, wares and merchandise, or of burning any stack,
rick, mow or barrack of hay, fodder, flax, hemp, tan bark, wheat
or other grain, shall, at the discretion of the court, suffer death,