516 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

Larceny-Ships.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 99. 1737, ch. 2, sec 4. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

168. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of"
stealing any ship, sloop or other vessel of seventeen feet keel or
upwards, out of any place within the body of any county, or on
the Chesapeake bay, within the jurisdiction of the State of Mary-
land, and not within the body of any county; or of the crime of
counselling, hiring, aiding or commanding any person to commit
either of said offences, or of the crime of being accessory thereto,
shall restore the vessel to the owner thereof, or pay him the full
value thereof, and also be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
more than twelve years nor less than eighteen months.

Larceny—Tobacco Plants.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 30, sec 104. 1819, ch. 88.

169. If any person shall secretly and feloniously steal, take
and carry away any tobacco plants, while growing and belonging
to any inhabitant of this State, such person, upon conviction
thereof, shall suffer such punishment; and undergo such confine-
ment in the penitentiary as if the said tobacco plants had been,
feloniously stolen, taken and carried away after the same had been
severed from the freehold.

Letters—Wrongfully Opening.

P. G. L, (1860,) art. 30, sec. 105. 1713, ch 2, sec. 8. 1790, ch. 51, sec. 11.

170. If any person whatsoever shall presume to take and
break open any letter whatsoever, not being unto him directed,
or not having special license from the person to whom the same
is directed, his executors or administrators, so to do, he shall,
upon conviction thereof, suffer imprisonment for six days and be
fined fifteen dollars, one-half to the State and the other half to the
informer.

Ibid sec. 106. 1713, ch. 2, sec 9. 1790, ch. 51, sec. 11.

171. If any person shall wilfully break the seal of any letter
or package belonging to the public, he shall, on conviction thereof,
be fined two hundred dollars, one-half to the informer and the
other half to the State.