ART. 27.] TREASON. 547

or other property, either belonging to or used or employed upon
any railroad within this State; or if any person or persons shall
attempt or conspire with others to destroy any dam, lock, abut-
ment, towing-path, waste-weir, or feeder of any canal, or any boat,
vessel or other property belonging to or used or employed thereon

within this State, every person so offending, upon conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for
a term not exceeding three years, nor less than one year, or fined
in a sum not more than two thousand nor less than five hundred
dollars, in the discretion of the court.

1862, ch. 235.

270. If any person or persons shall wilfully attempt or con-
spire to betray, yield or deliver to any person or persons in rebel-
lion against the government of this State, or to their emissaries,
aiders or abettors, any ship, vessel or steamboat within this State,
every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, be sen-
tenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a term not exceed-
ing three years nor less than one year, or fined in a sum not
more than two thousand nor less than five hundred dollars, in
the discretion of the court.

Ibid.

271. If any person, within this State, shall seduce, entice or
persuade any other person to commit any one of the offences pro-
hibited by sections 264 to 270, inclusive, and such offence be com.
mitted, the said person who so seduced, enticed or persuaded shall,
on conviction, be sentenced to suffer such punishment as the per-
son committing said offence would be liable to suffer as a punish-
ment for the crime so committed by him.

Ibid.

272. If any person within this State shall attempt to seduce,

entice or persuade any other person to commit any of the offences
prohibited by said sections, though such offence has not been com-
mitted, and shall be convicted thereof, he shall be sentenced to
confinement in the penitentiary for npt less than two years nor
more than four years, or to a fine of not less than five hundred
nor more than two thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court.