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chattels under the value of one dollar, the same order and
course of trial shall be had and observed as for other simple
larcenies, and being thereof convicted he shall be deemed
guilty of petty larceny and shall restore the goods and chattels
so stolen or pay the full value thereof to the owner thereof,
and be further sentenced to the penitentiary or to the jail of
the county in which the offense may have been committed, or
of the city of Baltimore if the offense be committed in said
city, in the discretion of the court, for not more than eighteen
months.

Isaacs v. State, 23 Md. 410. State v McNally, 55 Md. 560. Worthington
v. State, 58 Md. 403. Danner v. State, 89 Md. 224.

1888, art. 27, sec. 158. 1860, art. 30, sec. 101. 1793, ch. 35, sec. 1. 1797,
ch. 96, sec. 1. 1799, ch. 75, sec. 3. 1809, ch 138, sec. 6.

263. Robbery or larceny of any obligation or bond, bill
obligatory or bill of exchange, bank note or notes, promissory
notes for the payment of money, check or order drawn on any
bank of this State, or any other State, paper bill of credit,
certificate granted by or under the authority of this State, or
of the United States, or any of them, or any last will and tes-
tament or codicil, shall be punished in the same manner as
robbery or larceny of goods and chattels.

State v. Cassell, 2 H. & G. 207. Kearney v. State, 48 Md. 27. Stewart v.
State, 62 Md. 412.

Larceny—Buoys.

Ibid. sec. 159. 1860, art. 30, sec. 103. 1817, ch. 86.

264. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who shall be
convicted before any court exercising criminal jurisdiction at
the place where the offender may be arrested or may reside of
the crime of stealing, cutting away or in any manner wilfully
injuring any of the buoys, their mooring chains and stones,
which are now moored, or may hereafter be moored, in the
Patapsco river or the Chesapeake bay, by the direction of the
insurance companies of the city of Baltimore, shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary for a period of not less than eighteen
months nor more than seven years, at the discretion of the
court.

Larceny—Corn and Willows, Melons, Fruits, Vegetables.

Ibid. sec. 160. 1860, art. 30, sec. 102. 1837, ch. 361. 1849, ch. 484.
1892, ch, 678.

265. The taking and carrying away by any person of corn
from the stalk of the quantity of a peck or more, or the taking