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512 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27,
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 100 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6. 1868, ch. 214.
157. If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry
away personal goods of another, under the value of five dollars;
or if any person shall break into any shop, store-house, tobacco
house or warehouse, although the same be not contiguous to or
used with any mansion house, and steal any money, goods or chat-
tels under the value of one dollar, the same order and course of
trial shall be had and observed as for other simple larcenies; and
being thereof convicted, he shall be deemed guilty of petty lar-
ceny, and shall restore the goods and chattels so stolen, or pay the
full value thereof to the owner thereof, and be further sentenced
to the penitentiary, or to the jail of the county in which the
offence may have been committed, or of the city of Baltimore, if
the offence be committed in said city, in the discretion of the
court, for not more than eighteen months.
Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410. State v. McNally, 55 Md. 560. Worthington v.
State, 58 Md. 403.
Ibid. sec. 101. 1793, ch. 35, sec. 1. 1797, ch 96, sec 1. 1799, ch. 75, sec. 3,
1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.
158. Robbery or larceny of any obligation or bond, bill
obligatory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes, promissory
notes for the payment of money, check or order drawn on any
bank of this State, or any other State, paper bill of credit,
certificate granted by or under the authority of this State, or of
the United States, or any of them, or of any last will and
testament, or codicil, shall be punished in the same manner
as robbery or larceny of goods and chattels.
State v. Cassell, 2 H. & G. 207. Kearney v. State, 48 Md. 27. Stewart v.
State, 62 Md. 412.
Larceny—Buoys.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec 103. 1817, ch. 86.
159. 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 stealing, 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
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