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such city or town; and the .annual fee required for a license shall in no 

 case be more than one dollar in addition to the sum required by section 

 fifty-two. 



Sect. 68. All fines and penalties provided in the sixteen preceding 

 sections may he recovered on complaint hefore any police court or trial 

 justice in the county where the offence is committed. 



CHAPTER 161. 



OFFENCES AGAINST PROPERTY. 



Sect. 5. Whoever wilfully and maliciously burns, or otherwise 

 destroys, or injures, a pile or parcel of wood, boards, timber, or other 

 lumber, or any fence, bars, or gate, or a stack of grain, hay, or other 

 vegetable product, or any vegetable product severed from the soil and 

 not stacked, or any standing trees, grain, grass, or other standing product 

 of the soil, or the soil itself, of another, shall be punished by imprison- 

 ment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceed- 

 ing five hundred dollars and imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one 

 year. 



Sect. 80. Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, mains or disfigures 

 any horses, cattle,, or other beasts, of another person, or wilfully and 

 maliciously administers poison to any such beasts, or exposes any poison- 

 ous substance, with intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by 

 them, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not exceed- 

 ing five years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and impris- 

 onment in the jail not exceeding one year. 



Sect. 81. Whoever wilfully commits a trespass, by cutting down 

 or destroying any timber or wood, standing or growing on the land of 

 another, or by carrying away any kind of timber or wood, cut down 

 or lying on such land, or by digging up or carrying away any stone, 

 ore, gravel, clay, sand, turf, or mould, from such land, or any roots, fruit, 

 or plant, there being, or by cutting down or carrying away any sedge, 

 grass, hay, or any kind of corn, standing, growing or being on such land, 

 or by carrying away from any wharf or landing place any goods whatever 

 in which he has no interest or property, without the license of the owner 

 thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding 

 sixty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars. 



Sect. 82. Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wantonly and 

 without cause, cuts down or destroys, or by girdling, lopping, or other- 

 wise, injures any fruit or other tree, not his own, standing or growing 

 for shade, ornament, or other useful purpose, or maliciously or wantonly 

 breaks any glass, in a building not his own, or maliciously breaks down, 

 injures, mars or defaces any fence belonging to or enclosing lands not 

 his own, or maliciously throws down or opens any gate, bars or fence, 

 and leaves the same down or open, or maliciously and injuriously severs 

 from the freehold of another any produce thereof, or any thing attached 

 thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one 

 year, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 



Sect. 83. Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters any orchard, 

 nursery, garden, or cranberry meadow, and takes away, mutilates or 



