414 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

der the direction of the Governor, in placing for instruction in
the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, such
indigent blind persons of the age of nine years and upwards,
inhabitants of this State and the county or City from which
they are recommended, to the Governor by the county com-
missioners of each county, or the judges of the Orphans' Court
of Baltimore City.

398. The recommendation shall state that such blind per-
sons are in such indigent circumstances as to be unable, from
their own resources, or those of their parents, to obtain instruc-
tion, and are of good natural capacity.

399. The amount per annum paid for any one individual
shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars, nor the
term of instruction eight years.

400. The Governor shall report to the General Assembly
at each regular session thereof the amount of money expended
by him in pursuance of the provisions of this sub-division of
this Article, and the names, ages and places of residence of the
different applicants.

DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY.

401. If any person shall maliciously cut, disfigure, muti-
late, damage, destroy, or otherwise injure any goods, wares,
materials or merchandise intended to be manufactured, made
up or converted into garments, wearing apparel or other ar-
ticles of merchandise, and belonging to any other person, or
shall maliciously cut, disfigure or otherwise injure any gar-
ments, wearing apparel or other articles of merchandise be-
longing to any other person, or shall cause the same to be
done, or shall by any means cause or incite any person to do
the same, upon conviction thereof, before any tribunal of com-
petent jurisdiction, he shall be fined not more than fifty dol-
lars, or be sentenced to imprisonment in the House of Correc-
tion for not more than six months, or both fined and impris-
oned in the discretion of the court.