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giving them aid or comfort, within this State or elsewhere, and
shall be thereof convicted, on confession in open court or on the
testimony of two witnesses, both of them to the same overt
act, he shall suffer death, or be sentenced to confinement in the
penitentiary for not less than six nor more than twenty years,
at the discretion of the court.

1888, art. 27, sec. 265. 1862, ch. 235.

414. If any person shall provide or procure money, goods
or other property or effects, (other than munitions of war), to
be used in the levying of war against this State, or in giving
aid or comfort to the enemies of this State, within this State
or elsewhere, and be convicted thereof, he shall be sentenced
to imprisonment in the common jail of the county or city
wherever he may be convicted, for a term not exceeding six
months, or to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, at the
discretion of the court; and if the property or effects, so
provided or procured, consist in part or in the whole of muni-
tions of war, the person so providing or procuring such
munitions of war shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to
confinement in the penitentiary for a term not less than six
months nor more than two years, or to a fine not less than one
hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, at the discretion
of the court; and in any and every case the money, goods,
property or effects, so provided or procured, shall be forfeited
to the use of the State.

Ibid. sec. 266. 1862, ch. 235.

416. If any person or persons shall wilfully and for the
purpose of promoting rebellion or war against this State burn
or destroy any bridge, viaduct, culvert, structure, rails, ferry-
boat or other property belonging to and being part of any
highway or railroad within this State, or engine, car, vehicle or
property belonging to or being part of any highway or railroad
within this State, or engine, car, vehicle or property belonging
to or used or employed upon any railroad within this State, or
shall destroy any dam, lock, abutment, towing-path, waste-weir,
or feeder of any canal, or any boat, vessel or other property
belonging to or used or employed thereon, within this State,
every such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced
to undergo confinement in the penitentiary for a term not less
than two years nor more than six years, or to a fine of not less
than five hundred nor more than two thousand dollars, in the
discretion of the court.