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Sec. 3. Whoever in any other case, willfully and mischiev- 

 ously takes or uses any boat or vehicle, or takes, drives, rides, 

 or uses any horse, ox, or other draft animal, the property of 

 another, without the consent of the owner, or person having 

 the legal custody, care and control of the same, shall be 

 punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by 

 imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year ; but this 

 and the preceding section do not apply to any case of taking 

 the proi3erty of another with intent to steal the same, nor 

 when such property is taken under a claim of right, or with 

 the presumed consent of the owner, or person having the 

 legal control thereof. 



Sec. 7. Whoever willfully and maliciously cuts down, 

 destroys, or otherwise injures any shrub or tree for ornament 

 or use ; breaks, injures or defrices any fence ; throws down 

 or opens any gates or bars ; injures, destroj'^s, or severs from 

 the land of another, any produce thereof or thing attached 

 thereto, such articles not being his own, shall be punished by 

 imprisonment less than one year, and by fine not exceeding- 

 one hundred dollars. 



Sec. 9. Whoever willfully commits any trespass, or know- 

 ingly authorizes or employs another to do so, by entering the 

 garden, orchard, pasture, cranberry ground, or improved 

 land, of another, with intent to take, carry away, destroy, or 

 injure the trees, shrubs, grain, grass, hay, fruit, vegetables, 

 turf or soil thereon, shall be punished by a fine not exceed- 

 ing twenty dollars, and imprisonment not more than thirty 

 days. 



Sec. 10. Whoever willfully enters and passes over any 

 garden, yard or other improved field, after being expressly 

 forbidden so to do by the owner or occupant thereof, shall be 

 punished by fine not exceeding five dollars, or imprisonment 

 not more than ten days. 



Sec. 11. Whoever, at any time, enters any orchard, fruit 

 garden, vineyard, or any field or enclosure, kept for the pur- 

 pose of cultivating any domestic fruit therein, without the 

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