ART. 27 ] DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY. 157

rection, not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the
court.

Destroying Property Maliciously.

1892, ch. 99.

51. Any person who shall enter any dwelling-house, outhouse,
stable, barn, warehouse, storehouse, banking-house, factory, work-
shop, court house, school house, mill house, church, or any build-
ing occupied in part or in whole by any of the public, municipal,
or private corporations of the State, or upon any vessel, or upon
any yard where lumber, coal, or any sort of goods and chattels
are deposited or kept for the purpose of trade, or upon any
property or land, with the intent maliciously to injure, or destroy
any of the buildings aforesaid or any part thereof, or any furni-
ture, property or effects therein or thereon being found, or any
property or effects deposited or kept in, or upon any vessel or
yard, or with the intent to slay, kill, maim or tar and feather any
person being in or upon any of the premises aforesaid, upon
conviction thereof shall, in the discretion of the court be sen-
tenced to the penitentiary of this State for not less than two
years nor more than twenty years, or to the house of correction,
not exceeding three years, or to the city or county jail, not
exceeding one year.

1892, ch. 85.

52. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously injure or
destroy any dwelling house, outhouse, stable, bam, warehouse,
store house, banking house, factory, work shop, court house,
school house, church, mill house, or take and carry away any
growing tree, or cut down any tree, or destroy a vine, plant,
shrubbery, root, vegetable, fruit or grain, or any fencing, cord
wood or hoop poles, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged
guilty of a misdemeanor, and after presentment and indictment
by a grand jury and conviction, shall, in the discretion of the
court, be imprisoned in the penitentiary of this State for not less
than one year, nor more than three years, or in the house of
correction, not exceeding three years, or in the city or county jail
not exceeding one year, or be fined not less than five dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars, or be both fined and imprisoned
in jail as aforesaid.