T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 189.

AN ACT to extend to Somerset and Worcester coun-
ties, the provisions of the act, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, chapter
two hundred and sixty, entitled an act to declare cer-
tain trespasses, felony, and for other purposes.

Passed
Mar. 10, 1854.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That if any person shall cut down or
cause, or induce any person to cut down any timber or
tree, of a size not less than those commonly used for
hoop poles, with intent to steal the same, or cause or in-
duce any other person to steal the same, or any part
thereof, within the limits of Somerset or Worcester
counties, every person so offending, his aiders and abet-
tors, having knowledge of such intent to steal, shall be
adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be sentenced to
such punishment as now is, or hereafter may be
prescribed by law, for feloniously stealing goods or
chattels, to the value of one tree or trees, which shall be
cut down as aforesaid, and of the injury thereby oc-
casioned.

Adjudged
guilty of felo-

ny.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That every person who
shall advisedly and maliciously with intent to injure
the owner of any land, house or building, in the said
counties, or cut down any tree, or cut down, break, dig
or pull up, or in any manner destroy or injure any
growing grain, shrubs, herbs, roots, vines or vegetables,
or shall cut, break, pull off, destroy or injure any part
of any house or other building, or of any wall or fence,
or any ornament or other valuable article attached to
any house, or other building, wall or fence in said coun-
ty, shall on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be fined or imprisoned, or both
in the discretion of the court, before which any such
person shall be tried and convicted.

Punishment.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after the date of its passage.

In force.