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Setting fire to public building.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 97, s. 6.
2. Setting fire
to building
not specified.
6.
Malicious Damage.
Any person who unlawfully and maliciously sets fire to any building, other than such as are in this Ordinance before mentioned, belonging to the King or to the Colony, or devoted or dedicated to public use or ornament, or erected or maintained by public subscription or contribution, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
7. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously sets fire to any building other than such as are in this Ordinance before mentioned shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
c. 97, s. 6.
Setting fire to goods in any building, the setting
fire to which
is felony.
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 97, s. 7.
Attempt to
set fire to building, etc.
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 97, s. 8.
Destroying
dwelling-house with explosive, a
person being
therein.
24 & 25 Vict.
c. 97, s. 9.
Attempt to destroy building,
+
.
8. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously sets fire to any matter or thing being in, against, or under any building, in such circumstances that, if the building were thereby set fire to, the offence would amount to felony, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
9. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously by any overt act attempts to set fire to any building or to any matter or thing mentioned in section 8, in such circumstances that, if the same were thereby set fire to, the offender would be guilty of felony, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping...
Injuries by explosive substances to buildings
and goods therein.
10. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or other explosive substance, destroys, throws down, or damages the whole or any part of any dwellinghouse, any person being therein, or of any building whereby the life of any person is endangered, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
11. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously places or throws in, into, upon, under, against, or near any building
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