PENNSYLVANIA LAWS RELATING TO FOR- 

 ESTRY, &C. 



Title VIII. Offenses Against Real Property, and Malicious Mischief. 



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 a.s 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 un- 

 dergo an imprisonment not exceeding twelve months. 



Section 152. If any person shall cut down or fell any timber tree or 

 trees, knowing the same to be growing or standing upon 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 impris- 

 onment, not exceeding one year, as the court in their discretion, may 

 think proper to impose. 



Section 153. If any person shall knowingly and maliciously cut, 

 fell, alter or remove any certain bounded tree, or other allowed land 

 mark, to the wrong of his neighbor, or any other 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 imprison- 

 ment not exceeding one year. 



Approved March 31st, A. D. 1860. 



WM. F. PACKER. 



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