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some enumerated in this section, for their or his present use, and
not with the intent of appropriating or converting the same.

Larceny-Metallic Checks.

1882, ch. 240, sec 2.

166. If any person shall steal, take and carry away any metal-
lic check, card or other device issued or delivered by any em-
ployer in this State to his employees, having stamped, written or
otherwise indicated thereon any numerals or other characters
intended to indicate the sum or sums which may be due from
the said employer to the said employee, he shall be deemed a
felon, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished in the same
manner and to the same extent as if he had been convicted of
stealing, taking and carrying away lawful money of the United
States, of the same legal value as the sum or sums which the said
metallic check, card or other device may represent as being due
from the said employer to any employee, whether the same shall
have been issued and delivered to any employee, or only stamped
or otherwise so prepared as to be a representation of value in the
hands of the holders thereof.

Larceny-Pipes, Water or Gas Fixtures.

1865, ch. 13.

167. 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, to-
bacco 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
article, or anything attached or affixed thereto, with intent to
feloniously steal, take and carry away the same or any part
thereof, he shall be deemed guilty of felony, and shall be pun-
ished by imprisonment in the county or city jail, or the peni-
tentiary, at the discretion of the court, for not less than one year
nor more than eight years; and it shall not be necessary to charge
in the indictment that the article or things were attached or
affixed to or a part of the freehold.