ART. 27] DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY. 801

its pews, seats, walls, windows, shutters, trees, tombstones,
fencing, inclosures or other property in or belonging thereto,
or any parsonage, its furniture, trees, fencing or inclosures,
near and belonging to the same, he shall, on conviction before
a justice of the peace or the circuit court for the county or
criminal court of Baltimore, where the said property may be
situated, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined, in the
discretion of the said justice or court, in a sum of money not
less than three dollars nor more than fifty dollars for any one
offense, and shall stand committed to the public jail of the
county or city till the fine and fees shall be paid,

1888, art. 27, sec. 54. 1882, ch. 66.

77. Every person who shall feloniously steal or take, or who
shall maliciously mutilate, injure or disfigure by writing,
marking, cutting, tearing or otherwise, any book, map, picture,
engraving, manuscript or other property of any public library
or circulating library, or library belonging to the State of
Maryland, or to any city or public body or incorporated insti-
tution shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or be
imprisoned for not more than three months, or in the discre-
tion of the court, may be both fined and imprisoned as afore-
said.

Ibid. sec. 55. 1884, ch. 382.

78. Any person who shall enter upon the land or premises
of any other person, whether such other person be the owner
or lessee of said property or premises, and wilfully and malic-
iously injure any ice upon any pond or stream of water upon
said land so as to injuriously affect the quality of the same as
an article for sale or use, or who shall from beyond the prop-
erty or premises of any such owner or lessee wilfully and
maliciously thereon cast or discharge upon any such ice any
substance whatever which shall so injure the same shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty
dollars, or imprisoned for thirty days, in the discretion of the
court; and the ownership in said ice may be laid in the indict-
ment to be either in any of the persons who have at the time
of the commission of said act the right to gather said ice for
use or sale as owner or lessee of said land on which said pond
or stream may be situated, or in any other person who has the
legal right to gather the said ice for sale or use by license from
or contract with such owner or lessee.