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death, or be sentenced to the penitentiary for not more than
twenty years; and the wilful and malicious burning of any
dwelling house, whether the same shall be in the possession of
the offender or in the possession of any other person, with the
intent thereby to injure or defraud any person, shall be deemed
arson under this section.

Cochrane v. State, 6 Md. 400. Kellenbeck v. State, 10 Md. 437. Gibson v.
State, 54 Md. 450.

1888, art. 27, sec. 7. 1860, art. 30, sec. 3. 1831, oh. 208, sec. 4.
1904, ch. 267.

7. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously set fire to and
burn any untenanted or unfinished dwelling house, whether the
same be his own or the property of another, with intent thereby
to injure or defraud any person, he shall, upon conviction
thereof, be confined in the penitentiary for a term of not less
than one nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1860, art. 30, sec. 4. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 5.

8. Every person, his aiders or abettors, who shall be con-
victed of the crime of wilfully and maliciously burning any
ship or other vessel of seventeen feet keel or upwards, whether
laden or empty, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not
less than two nor more than twelve years.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1860, art. 30, sec. 5. 1720, ch. 25. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8.

1904, ch. 267.

9. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously burn, or attempt
or conspire to burn, the State house of this State, or any part
thereof, or any office contained therein, or the building of the
commissioner of the land office, or any part thereof, or of
the penitentiary, or any court house, or any port thereof, or
any office contained therein, or any jail, poor house, magazine
or lazaretto, or any public warehouse, or any other public office
or building belonging to this State, or to any county, city or
town of this State; and whoever shall wilfully and maliciously
burn, or attempt or conspire to burn, any church, college,
university, academy, home, hospital or infirmary, whether the
same be public or private property, every such person, his
aiders, abettors or counsellors, and each of them, shall be
deemed felons, and, upon conviction, shall, in the discretion of
the court, suffer death, or be confined in the penitentiary for
not more than twenty years.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1860, art. 30, sec. 6. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 8.

10. Every person convicted of the crime of wilfully and
maliciously burning or destroying, or attempting or conspiring