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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1835.

CHAPTER 173.

AN Act to continue in Force the Acts of Assembly which would expire
with the present session of the General Assembly.

Expiring
acts con-
tinued.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all such acts or parts of acts, as would expire with the present
session of the general assembly, be and the same are hereby re-
enacted and continued in force to the last Monday of December
next, and to the end of the session of the generel assembly there-

Exceptions.

after; Provided however, that this act shall not extend to any
acts or parts of acts, which shall have been repealed, or in any
wise modified at the present session of the general assembly.

CHAPTER 200.
AN ACT concerning Crimes and Punishments.

Persons
guilty of en-
tering, &c.
with intent
to injure —
property or
person.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person or persons shall enter into any dwelling-
house, out-house, stable, barn, warehouse, storehouse, bank-
ing-house, factory, workshop, court-house, church, mill-house,
or any building occupied in part or in whole, by any of the pub-
lic municipal or private corporations of this state, or upon any
vessel, or upon any yard where lumber, coal, or any sort of
goods and chattels are deposited or kept for the purposes of
trade, with the intent maliciously to injure or destroy any of the
buildings aforesaid or any part thereof, or any property or effects
thereon being found, or any property or effects deposited or kept
in or upon any vessel or yard, or with the intent to slay, kill,
maim or tar and feather any person or persons, being in or upon
any of premises aforesaid, each and every person herein offending

Penalty
prescribed.

shall upon conviction thereof be punished by confinement in the
penitentiary, for a term not less than two years, nor more than
twenty years, to be there dealt with according to law.

Jurisdiction
of such
crimes.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the several courts of this
state having jurisdiction over crimes, shall within their respec-
tive jurisdiction have cognizance of the crimes herein before
declared and enacted as in other cases.

Free ne-
groes pre-
viously sen-
tenced to
the peniten-
tiary, and
found guilty
of second
offence, &c,
may be sold
out of the
state.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the judges of the several
courts in the state having criminal jurisdiction, shall upon the
conviction of any free negro or mulatto, inquire into the fact
whether such negro or mulatto has been previously sentenced
to undergo confinement in the penitentiary, and if any court
shall find to their satisfaction that any such convict has been
previously sentenced at any former term of any court or courts
of this state, to confinement therein, that then it shall be lawful
for such court to order such negro or mulatto to be sold, at the
discretion of the court, for a term of years, without the limits of