476 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

workshop, court-house, school-house, mill-house, church, or any
building occupied in part or in whole by any of the public,
municipal or private corporations of this State, or upon any
vessel, or upon any yard where lumber, coal or any sort of goods
and chattels are deposited or kept for the purpose of trade, with
the intent maliciously to injure or destroy any of the buildings
aforesaid, or any part thereof, or any furniture, property or effects

therein being found, or any property or effects deposited or kept
in or upon any vessel or yard, or with the intent to slay, kill,
maim or tar and feather any person being in or upon any of the
premises aforesaid, upon conviction thereof he shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary of this State fur not less than two years nor
more than twenty years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 41. 1864, ch. 247. 1867, ch 153. 1868, ch. 56.

52. Any person 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 dwelling-house, out-
nouse, stable, barn, warehouse, store-house, banking-house, factory,
workshop, court-house, school-house, church, mill-house, or take and

carry away any growing tree, or cut down any tree, or destroy a
vine, plant, shrubbery, root, vegetable, fruit or grain, or any
fencing, cordwood, or hoop-poles, shall, on conviction thereof, be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and after presentment and
indictment by a grand jury, and conviction, be fined not less than
five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned
in the city or county jail for not less than one mouth nor more
than two months, or be both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in
the discretion of the court.

1867, ch. 185.

53. If any person unlawfully and maliciously shall disfigure,

-cut, mutilate, injure or damage any church, house of worship, its
pews, seats, wails, windows, shutters, trees, tombstones, fencing,
inclosures, 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 for the county or criminal court of
Baltimore, where the said property may be situated, be deemed