ART. 20.] TRESPASS—WILD FOWL. 1835

TRESPASS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, sec. 201.

245. If any person shall cut down, or cause or induce any
person to cut down, any tree or timber of a size not less than
those commonly used for hoop poles, with intent to steal the
same, or any part thereof, within the limits of said county, he,
his aiders and abettors, having knowledge of such intent to steal,
shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to such
punishment as is or may be prescribed by law for feloniously
stealing goods or chattels to the value of the tree, which shall be

cut down as aforesaid, and of the injury thereby occasioned.

Ibid. sec. 202.

246. Any person who shall advisedly and maliciously, with
the intent to injure the owner of any land, house or building in-
said county, cut down any tree, or cut down, break, dig or pull
up, or in any manner destroy or injure any growing grain, shrubs,
herbs, roots, vines or vegetables, or shall break, cut, pull off,
destroy or injure any part of any house or other building, or of
any wall or fence, or any ornament or other valuable article
attached to any house or other building, wall or fence, in said
county, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the dis-
cretion of the court.

WILD FOWL.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 19, sec. 203.

247. It shall not be lawful for any person, by day or night, to
navigate or paddle any open skiff, canoe or open boat of any
description, on board of which may be any offensive weapon, gun?
musket, fowling-piece or pistol, within the region usually known
as included from Hearn's strait, in Somerset county, to the upper
side of Holland's straits, within fifty yards of any blind for shoot-
ing fowl, with intent to shoot or molest any wild fowl within the
region aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 204.

248. Every person offending against the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars, to be