exceeding two years, or be fined not exceeding one thousand. dollars.

SEC. 4. Every person who shall wilfully burn any building or any goods, wares or merchandise, or other chattels, which shall at the time be insured against loss by fire, with intent to injure the insurer, whether such person be the owner of the property or not, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 5. The preceding four sections shall severally extend to a married woman who shall commit either of the offences therein described, though the property burned or destroyed shall belong partly or wholly to her husband.

SEC. 6. If any person shall set or cause any fire to be set in the woods in any part of this state, to run and spread at large, at any time of the year, under any pretence whatsoever, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

SEC. 7. Every person who shall be convicted of burglary shall be imprisoned for life, or for any term not less than five years.

SEC. 8. Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering any bank, shop, office or warehouse not adjoining to or occupied with a dwelling-house, any meeting-house, church, chapel, court house, town-house, college, academy, school-house, library or other building erected for public use, or occupied for any public purpose, or any ship or vessel, in the night time, with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 9. Every person who shall be convicted of entering any dwelling-house in the night time, or of breaking and entering, or entering in the daytime, any dwelling-house or other building, or any ship or vessel, with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery, arson or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 10. Every person who shall be convicted of stealing any money, goods or chattels, any note of the treasurer of this state for the payment of money, any bank-bill, any certificate of any bank, or of any public officer or corporation, securing the payment of money to any person or certifying the same to be due, any order entitling a person to money or other article, any bill of exchange, bond, warrant, obligation, bill or promissory note, for the payment of money, or other valuable property, any record or paper belonging to any public officer, any writ, warrant or other legal process, any book account, any receipt for money, or other article paid or delivered, any adjustment or document of any kind, relating to the payment of money or delivery of any article, any indenture of apprenticeship, any deed, covenant, indenture or assurance whatever, respecting any property real or personal, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 11. Every person who shall be convicted of stealing from the person of another any money, goods, chattels, or other article

enumerated in the next preceding section, shall be imprisoned not less than one year, nor more than ten years.

SEC. 12. Every person who shall be convicted of fraudulently receiving any stolen money or other article, knowing the same to be stolen, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and be subject to the like imprisonment and penalty as is in the next preceding two sections prescribed for the punishment of the person stealing the same, although the person who stole the same may not have been prosecuted or convicted therefor.

SEC. 13. Every person who shall falsely personate or represent another, and in such assumed character shall receive any money or other article whatever intended to be delivered to the party so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly.

SEC. 14. Every person who shall be convicted of obtaining from another designedly, by any false pretence in writing or by any privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, any money or other article, or of obtaining with such intent the signature of any person to any written instrument, the false making whereof would be punishable as forgery, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceed ing one thousand dollars.

SEC. 15. If any officer, agent, clerk or servant, or person to whom any money or other property shall be intrusted for any specific purpose shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or shall take or secrete, with intent to embezzle and fraudulently convert to his own use, any money or other property which shall have come into his possession or shall be under his care or charge, by virtue of such employment, or for such specific purpose, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and may be tried, sentenced and punished, as for any other larceny.

SEC. 16. If any officer, agent or servant of any incorporated bank shall embezzle or appropriate to his own use, any moneys, goods, effects or funds of any such bank, with intent to cheat or defraud the same, or any person whomsoever, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years.

SEC. 17. If any president, secretary, cashier, treasurer or other officer or agent of any incorporated company or institution, shall fraudulently issue any stock or certificate of stock of any such company or institution, such president, secretary, cashier, treasurer or other officer or agent shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years nor less than one year.

SEC. 18. If any agent or factor shall deposit or pledge any goods, wares or merchandise, or any bill of lading, receipt or cer tificate of a warehouse-keeper or inspector, or any warrant or order for the delivery of goods which he shall have been intrusted with

or which shall have been consigned to him as a security for any money or other property borrowed or received by such agent or factor, and shall apply or dispose of the proceeds thereof to his own use, in violation of good faith, and with intent to defraud any such owner of such goods, every person so offending shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding five years.

SEC. 19. Every person who shall be convicted of cutting out the tongue, or otherwise dismembering any beast, wilfully or maliciously; or wilfully or maliciously killing or wounding any beast of another, or wilfully or maliciously administering poison to, or exposing any poisonous substance with intent that the same should be taken or swallowed by any beast of another shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars; and shall moreover be liable to the owner of such beast for treble damages, to be recovered by action of trespass.

SEC. 20. Every person who shall be convicted of taking and carrying away, without the consent of the owner thereof, any corn, grain, fruit or growing vegetable out of any field, garden, or orchard, or of maliciously rooting up, cutting down or otherwise injuring or destroying any tree, root, fruit or vegetable growing in any garden, field, orchard, highway, common or public square; or who shall maliciously or wantonly in any way injure or deface any building not his own, or break the glass or any part of it in any such building; or shall maliciously injure any fence on or inclosing lands not his own shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars; and every magistrate within the proper county shall have jurisdiction over either of the offences in this section mentioned, when the value of the property taken or destroyed shall not exceed the sum of twenty dollars; and may sentence the offender to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or to be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 21. Any sheriff, deputy sheriff, town or city sergeant, constable or police officer, who shall discover any person or persons in the act of taking and carrying away any growing fruit or vegetables as aforesaid, shall arrest such person or persons and detain him or them in custody until a complaint can be made against him or them for the offence for which he or they shall have been arrested, and he or they be taken on a warrant issued upon such complaint: Provided, that such arrest and detention without a warrant shall not continue longer than the space of six hours.

SEC. 22. Every person who shall be convicted of robbing or drawing any fish-pot, weir or net belonging to any other person, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 23. The officer who shall apprehend any person as principal or accessory in any robbery or larceny, shall secure the property alleged to be stolen, and shall be answerable for the same, and he shall annex a schedule thereof to his return, and upon conviction of the offender, the stolen property shall be restored to the owner. SEC. 24. Every person who shall be convicted of maliciously

firing, between the first days of April and November in any year, any gun, musket, blunderbuss or pistol, within eighty rods of any baiting place not his own property, and actually used, in the proper season therefor, for the baiting and netting of wild pigeons, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars nor less than five dollars.

SEC. 25. Every person who shall be convicted of strewing or placing any powder or brimstone or other sulphurous substance upon any baiting place not his own property, or of burning thereon any of said substances saturated with tar or turpentine, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 26. Every person who shall wilfully place upon any railroad, any thing with the intent to hinder or impede the passage of any locomotive, engine or car, over such railroad, or shall wilfully do any other act, matter or thing, with intent to hinder, impede or interrupt the passage of such locomotive, engine or car, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or fined not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 27. Every person who shall wilfully cut or break down, or attempt to cut or break down any post or upright on which the wires of any telegraph company are supported, or shall cut or break, or attempt to cut or break the wire of any such company, or shall do any other act interrupting or intended to interrupt the communication of intelligence by any such company, and shall be convicted thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 28. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously break down, remove, injure or destroy any monument erected for the purpose of designating the boundaries of any town, or of any tract or lot of land, or any tree marked for that purpose, or stake set up to mark the line or grade of any railroad, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars.

SEC. 29. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully and mischievously tearing, cutting, burning or in any other manner damaging and impairing the integrity, strength, or usefulness for circulation, of any bank-bill or note, which has been, or hereafter may be issued by any corporation which is or hereafter may be established as a bank in this state, or of wilfully and mischiev ously writing, printing, blotting or stamping any impression on the same, or of aiding and abetting in any of the offences aforesaid, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, nor less than one month.

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CHAPTER 215.

OF FORGING AND COUNTERFEITING.

1. Forging and counterfeiting, defined, and how to be punished.

2. Forging, &c., of certificate of state debt or bank-bill or note, how.

3. Passing such counterfeit certificate or bank-bill or note, knowing same to be counterfeit, how.

4. Bringing counterfeit securities, &c., bank-bills or notes, with intent to pass them, how.

5. Engraving, &c., or making, &c., instruments to make counterfeit bank-bills or notes, or having such instruments in possession for use, how.

6. Evidence that signature to bank-bill or note is counterfeit, what may be.

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7. Forging or counterfeiting current gold and silver coin, how to be punished. 8. Uttering or tendering falsely such coin, how.

9. Designedly bringing such coin into

this state, with intent to utter it, how. 10. Making, &c., instruments for the purpose of counterfeiting current coin, how.

11. Of seizure and destruction of such instruments.

12. Plates and dies of banks whose charters have expired or been forfeited, how to be disposed of.

13. Penalty upon directors of such banks for not so disposing of them.

SECTION 1. Every person who shall be convicted of falsely making, altering, forging or counterfeiting, or of procuring to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, any public record, or any writ, process or proceeding in any court of justice in this state, any certificate or attestation of any judge, justice of the peace, warden, public notary, clerk of any court, town clerk, city clerk, or other public officer in any matter wherein such certificate or attestation may be received as legal proof, any charter, deed, will, testament, bond or writing obligatory, letter of attorney, policy of insurance, bill of exchange, promissory note, order, acquittance, discharge for or upon the payment of money or delivery of goods, or any acceptance of a bill of exchange or any indorsement, assignment or guaranty of any bill of exchange or promissory note, or any certificate, or accountable receipt for money, goods or any other thing, or any warrant, order or request for the payment of money or delivery of goods, or for the delivery of any note, bill or other security for money or goods, or any lottery ticket or part or share of any lottery ticket in any lottery authorized by the laws of any state, territory or country, or any writing whatsoever purporting to contain evidence of any debt, contract or promise, or of the discharge, payment or satisfaction of any debt, contract or promise, with intent to defraud, or of uttering and publishing as true, or of procuring to be uttered and published as true, any such false, forged, altered or counterfeited record, deed or other writing aforementioned, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered or counterfeited with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.