2184 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.

1883, ch. 78.

265. At least ten days before the annual levy is made by the
county commissioners, the State's attorney shall make out and
present to the said judge or judges, for his or their inspection
and approval, his account for services rendered during the fiscal
year past, which account, when so approved, shall be levied by
the county commissioners at the time of making the annual levy
in each and every year.

Ibid.

266. No compensation for defending any party in any crimi-
nal case shall be allowed to any attorney by the county commis-
sioners, except on presentation of an order in writing, signed by
a judge of the circuit court for said county, certifying in what
case services had been rendered, and the amount to be paid for
such services.

TRESPASS.

P. L L., (1860,) art. 22, sec. 148.

267. If any person shall cut down or cause to be cut down, or
induce any person to cut down, any 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 adjudgd 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 trees which shall be
cut down as aforesaid, and of the injury thereby occasioned.

Ibid. sec. 149.

268. 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
tip, or in any manner destroy or injure, any growing grain,
shrubs, herbs, roots, vines or vegetables, or shall cut, break, 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
misdemeanor, and shall be fined and imprisoned, or both, in the
discretion of the court before which he shall be tried and con-
victed.