gious society whatever, the person offending shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor,

not exceeding ten years. Setting fire with Section 139. Every person, being the owner of any ship, intent to defraud boat or other vessel, or the owner, tenant or occupant of any insurers.

house, out-house, office, store, shop, warehouse, mill, distillery, brewery or manufactory, barn or stable, or any other building, who shall wilfully burn or set fire thereto, with intention to burn the same, with an intention thereby to defraud or prejudice any person, or body politic or corporate, that hath underwritten or shall underwrite any policy of insurance thereon, or on any moneys, goods, wares or merchandise therein, or that shall be otherwise interested therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceed

ing seven years, Piring woods. Section 140. If any person shall wilfully set on fire, or cause to

be set on fire, any woods, lands or marshes within this commonwealth, so as thereby to occasion loss, damage or injury to any other person, he or she shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding

twelve months. Attempting to SECTION 141. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously blow up building place or throw in, into, upon, against or near any building or

vessel, any gunpowder or other explosive mixture, with intent to do bodily harm to any person, or to destroy or damage any building or vessel, or any machinery, working tools, fixtures, goods or chattels, every such offender shall, whether or not injury is effected to any person, or any damage to any building, vessel or machinery, working tools, goods or chattels, be guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not

exceeding three years. Malicious injury SECTION 142. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously to railroads.

put, place, cast or throw upon or across any railroad, any wood, stone or other matter or thing, or shall wilfully and maliciously take up, remove or displace any rail, sleeper or other raiter or thing belonging to any railroad, or shall wilfully and maliciously turn, move or divert any switch or other machinery belonging to any railroad, or shall wilfully and maliciously make or show, hide or remove any signal or light upon or near any railroad, or shall wilfully and maliciously do, or cause to be done, any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to obstruct, upset, overthrow, injure or destroy any tender, car riage, car or truck used on such railroad, or to endanger the safety of any person traveling, or being upon such railroad, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding ten years.

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Section 143. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously Casting wood, cast, throw, or cause to fall or strike against, into or upon any stone, &e., upon engine, tender, carriage, car or truck used upon any railroad, any wood or stone, or other matter or thing, with intent to endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, car or truck, every such ofsender shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding three years.

Section 144. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously Malicious injury break, throw down, level or destroy the whole or any part of to artificial naviany lock, sluice, flood-gate, bank, waste-wier, dam, aqueduct, culvert, bridge, feeder, guard-wall, towing-path or berme bank belonging to any artificial navigation, or stop up or obstruct any such feeder, waste-wier, aqueduct or culvert, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement, or by simple imprisonment, at labor, not exceeding three years.

SECTION 145. If any person shall wantonly open or shut, or Wantonly opencause to be opened or shut, any lock or safety-gate, or any ing or shatting wicket, paddle or culvert gate, or any waste, feeder or sluice any lock, &e. gate, or drive any nails, spikes, pins or wedges into any such gate or fixtures thereof, or shall take any other means to prevent the perfect and free use of the same, or shall wantonly and maliciously break, throw down or destroy any fence, wall or timber work, on any canal, pool, feeder or other part of any artificial navigation ; or if any person shall willully obstruct the navigation of any canal or pool, by throwing into the same, or sinking to the bottom thereof, any vessel, timber, stone, earth or other thing, or by placing anything whatever upon any towing. paths, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding three calendar months.

Section 146. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously Destroying any break down or cut down the bank or wall of any river, canal or bank or wall. marsh, whereby any land shall be overflowed or damaged, or be in danger thereof, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year.

SECTION 147. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously Destroying or break, injure or otherwise destroy or damage any part of any damaging locomotive or stationary engine, inclined plane, engine house, flag staffs, houses,

bridges, station or depot, bridge, culvert, trussel work or other building &o. or structure belonging to any railroad, or any other part of such railroad; or shall wantonly and maliciously derange or displace the fixtures or machinery of any locomotive or stationary engine, used or employed on any railroad; or shall wilfally and mali. ciously destroy or injure any fence or wall, cross road passing over or under such railroad; or shall unlawfully and maliciously break, injure or otherwise destroy or damage any of the posts, wires or other materials or fixtures employed in the construction and use in any line of an electrical telegraph, or shall wilfully

and maliciously interfere with such structure so erected, or ia any way attempt to lead from its uses or make use of the electrical current, or any portion thereof, properly belonging to and in use, or in readiness to be made use of, for the purpose of communicating telegraphically from one station of a telegraph company to another established station of the same, or a connecting telegraph line; or shall unlawfully and maliciously break, injure or otherwise destroy or damage any bridge, river or meadow bank or mill dam; or wilfully and maliciously take down, injure, remove or in any manner damage or destroy any flag, flag-staff, beacon, buoy or other way or water marks, which now are or hereafter may be put, erected or placed, by lawful authority, near or in any streams that are or may be declared public high ways; or shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break or otherwise destroy any lead, tin, copper or iron spout affixed to any house or other building, public or private; or shall unlawfully and maliciously daub, paint or otherwise deface any dwelling house, such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceed. ing twelve months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the

court. Breaking win- Section 148. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously dows, tearing off break, injure or destroy any window or door belonging to any knookers, &c.

dwelling house or out-house, parcel thereof; or shall unlaw. fully and maliciously break or take off from the door any knocker or bell-pull, or plate inscribed with the name of the occupant, or number of the house; or shall wilfully and maliciously destroy, take down, injure or deface any sign, put up by an inhabitant to denote the place of his abode, occupation, business or employment, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or sufler an imprisonment not exceeding six

months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court. Injury to the SECTION 149. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously grounds of the

break down any tree or shrub growing on the public grounds as capitol hill.

enclosed on capitol hill, or otherwise injure or destroy the same, or shall break or destroy the fence around such enclosure, or any part thereof, or shall maliciously and wilfully injure any part of the public grounds, or the buildings belonging to the state; or if any person shall wilfully or maliciously injure or destroy any fruit or ornamental trees, shrub, plant or grape vines growing or cultivated in any orchard, garden, or close, or upon any public street or square in this commonwealth, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be fined not es• ceeding one hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the

court. Drowning any Section 150. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously mine or filling up cause any water to be conveyed into any mine, or into any sub

terraneous passage communicating therewith, with intent thereby to destroy or damage such mine, or to hinder or delay the working thereof, or shall, with the like intent, unlawfully and maliciously pull down, fill up or obstruct any airway, waterway, drain, pit, level or shaft of, or belonging to any mine,

such offender, his aiders and abettors, shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding two years.

Section 151. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously Maliciously injacut, injure or destroy, or eface any hose or engine, or any ap- ring fire engines paratus appertaining to the same, belonging to any fire engine

or hose. or hose company, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding three years.

Section 152. If any person shall cut down or fell any timber Cutting down tree or trees, knowing the same to be growing or standing upon

timber trees. the lands of another person, without the consent of the owner, or if any person shall purchase or receive any timber tree or trees, knowing the same to have been cut or removed from the lands of another, without the consent of the owner thereof, or who shall purchase or receive any planks, boards, staves, shingles or other lumber made from such timber tree or trees, so as aforesaid cut or removed, knowing the same to have been so made, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay such fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to such imprisonment, not exceeding one year, as the court, in their discretion, may think proper to impose.

Section 153. If any person shall knowingly and maliciously Removing or decut, fell, alter or remove any certain bounded tree, or other al. stroying land lowed land mark, to the wrong of his neighbor, or any other marks. person, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year.

Section 151. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously Killing, maiming kill, maim or disfigure any horses, cattle, or other domestic ani- or wounding eatmals of another person, or shalt wilfully and maliciously administer poison to any such beasts, or expose any poisonous substance, with intent that the same should be taken or swallowed by them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to imdergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding three years.

Section 155. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously Malicious injury destroy or damage anything kept for the purpose of art, science to works of art. or literature, or as an object of curiosity, in any museum, gallery, cabinet, library or other repository, which museum, gallery, cabinet, library or other repository, is either at all times, or from time to time, open for the admission of the public, or any considerable number of persons to view the same, either by the permission of the proprietor thereof or by payment of money for entering the same, or any picture, statue, monument or painted glass in any church, meeting house or other place of religious worship, or any statue or monument exposed to public view, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment bot exceeding six months.

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TITLE IX. Offences against the Coin, and Forgery. Counterfeiting Section 156. Any person who shall falsely and fraudulently

make or counterfeit any coin, resembling or apparently intended to resemble, any gold or silver coin, which is or shall be passing, or in circulation as money, within this common. wealth, shall be guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding five years ; and every such offence shall be deemed complete, although the coin so made or counterfeited shall not be in a fit state to be uttered, or the

counterfeiting thereof shall not be finished or perfected. Coloring coun:

Section 157. If any person shall gild or silver, or shall with terfeit coin with any wash or materials capable of producing the color of gold or intent to pass the

silver, wash, color or case over any coin whatsoever, resembling or apparently intended to resemble, or pass for any gold or silver coin, which is or shall be current in this commonwealth, or if any person shall gild or silver, or shall with any wash or materials capable of producing the color of gold or silver, wash, color or case over any piece of silver or copper, or of coarse gold or coarse silver, or of any metal or mixture of metals, respectively, being of a fit size and figure to be coined, and with the intent that the same shall be coined into false and counterfeit coin, resembling, or apparently intended to resemble, or pass for any coin which is or shall be current in this commonwealth, or if any person shall gild, or shall with any wash or materials capable of producing the color of gold, wash, color, or case over any silver coin, which is or shall be current as aforesaid, or file, or in any manner alter such coin, with intent to make the same resemble or pass for any current gold or silver coin, or if any person shall gild or silver, or shall with any wash or materials capable of producing the color of gold or silver, wash, color, or case over any copper coin, current in this commonwealth, or file, or in any manner alter such coin, with intent to make the same resemble or pass for any gold or silver coin, current in this commonwealth, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary con

finement at labor, not exceeding five years. Impairing the Section 158. If any person shall impair, diminish or lighten eoin.

any gold or silver coin, which is or shall be current in this commonwealth, with intent to make the coin so impaired, dimin. ished or lightened, pass for gold or silver coin current as aforesaid, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by sepa.

rate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding three years. Baying and soll. Section 159. If any person shall buy, sell, receive, pay or put ing oounterfeit off, or offer so to do, any false or counterfeit coin, resembling,

or apparently intended to resemble, or pass for any gold or silver coin which is or shall be current in this commonwealth, at or for a lower rate or value than the same, by its denomination, imports, or was coined or counterfeited for, or if any person

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