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use, and not with the intent of appropriating or converting the
same.

Larceny—Metallic Checks.

1888, art. 27, sec. 166. 1882, ch. 240, sec. 2.

271. If any person shall steal, take and carry away any
metallic check, card or other device issued or delivered by any
employer in this State to his employes, having stamped, written
or otherwise indicated thereon any numerals or other characters
intended to indicate the sum or sums which may be due from
the said employe* to the said employes, he shall be deemed a
felon, and on conviction thereof shall be punished in the same
manner and to the same extent as if he had been convicted of
stealing, taking and carrying away lawful money of the United
States, of the same legal value as the sum or sums which the
said metallic check, card or other device may represent as being
due from the said employer to any employe, whether the same
shall have been issued and delivered to any employe, or only
stamped or otherwise so prepared as to be a representation of
value in the hands of the holders thereof.

Larceny—Pipes, Water or Gas Fixtures.

Ibid. sec. 167. 1865, ch 13.

272. If any person shall feloniously steal, take and carry
away any pipe, water fixture or gas fixture, or any other article
or thing of value attached to or a part of any store, shop,
dwelling-house, tobacco house or warehouse, whether the same
be occupied or not, or if any person shall enter any store, shop,
dwelling-house, tobacco house or warehouse, and shall felon-
iously sever or separate from the freehold any pipe, water
fixture or gas fixture, or any other article, or anything attached
or affixed thereto, with intent to feloniously steal, take and
carry away the same or any part thereof, he shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in
the county or city jail, or the penitentiary, at the discretion of
the court, for not less than one year nor more than eight years;
and it shall not be necessary to charge in the indictment' that
the article or things were attached or affixed to or a part of the
freehold.

Larceny—Ships.
Ibid. sec. 168 1860, art. 30, sec. 99 1737, ch. 2, sec. 4. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

273. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of
stealing any ship, sloop or other vessel of seventeen feet keel
or upwards, out of any place within the body of any county,
or on the Chesapeake bay, within the jurisdiction of the State