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Malicious Damage.

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c. 97, s. 43.

owner of such ship or vessel or of any goods on board the 24 & 25 Vict. same, or any person who has underwritten any policy of insurance upon such ship.or vessel, or upon the freight thereof, or upon any goods on board the same, 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.

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set fire to

24 & 25 Vict.

c. 97, s. 44.

30. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously by any Attempt to overt act attempts to set fire to, cast away, or destroy any ship. ship or vessel, in such circumstances that, if the ship or vessel were thereby set fire to, cast away, or destroyed, 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.

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explosive

near ship

with intent to 24 & 25 Vict.

damage it.

c. 97, s. 45.

31. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously places Placing or throws in, into, upon, against, or near any ship or vessel substance any gunpowder or other explosive substance, with intent to destroy or damage any ship or vessel or any machinery, working tools, goods, or chattels, shall, whether or not any explosion takes place and whether or not any injury is effected, be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprison- ment for fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen-years,--with or without whipping.

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ship other-

by fire.

c. 97, s. 46.

32. Any person who unlawfully and maliciously Damaging damages, otherwise than by fire, gunpowder, or other wise than explosive substance, any ship or vessel whether the same 24 & 25 Vict. is complete or in an unfinished state, with intent to destroy the same or render the same useless, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without- whipping.

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33. Any person who-

Exhibiting false signal,

(a) unlawfully masks, alters, or removes any light signal or unlawfully exhibits any false light signal, with intent to bring any ship, vessel, boat into danger; or

or

with intent

to bring ship

or

into danger.

24 & 25 Vict.

or

c. 97, s. 47.

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(b) unlawfully and maliciously does anything tending to the immediate loss or destruction of any ship,

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