1 SEC. 282. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously set 2 fire to, burn, or attempt to burn, or by means of a dangerous 3 explosive destroy or attempt to destroy, any dwelling house, 4 or any store, barn, stable, or other building, parcel of a dwell5 ing house, shall be imprisoned not more than twenty years. 6 (R. S., s. 5385.) 7 SEC. 283. [Whoever shall maliciously set fire to, burn, or 8 attempt to burn, or by any means destroy or injure, or at9 tempt to destroy or injure, any arsenal, armory, magazine, 10 ropewalk, ship house, warehouse, blockhouse or barrack, or 11 any storehouse, barn, or stable not parcel of a dwelling house or any other building not mentioned in the section last 13 preceding, or any vessel built, building, or undergoing repair, or any light-house, or beacon, or any machinery, timber, cables, 15 rigging, or other materials or appliances for building, repairing, 12 14 16 or fitting out vessels, or any pile of wood, boards, or other 17 lumber, or any military, naval, or victualizing stores, arms, or 18 other munitions of war, shall be fined not more than five SEC. 282. SEC. 5385. Every person who, within any fort, dock-yard, navy-yard, arsenal, armory, or magazine, the site whereof is under the jurisdiction of the United States, or on the site of any light-house, or other needful building belonging to the United States, the site whereof is under their jurisdiction, willfully and maliciously burns any dwelling-house, or mansion-house, or any store, barn, stable, or other building, parcel of any dwelling or mansion-house, shall suffer death. SEC. 2. That except offenses mentioned in sections (2) fifty-three hundred and thirty-two, thirteen hundred and forty-two, sixteen hundred and twentyfour, fifty-three hundred and thirty-nine, and fifty-three hundred and fortyfive, Revised Statutes, when a person is convicted of any offense to which the punishment of death is now specifically affixed by the laws of the United States, he shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life, and when any person is convicted of an offense to which the punishment of death, or a lesser punishment, in the discretion of the court, is affixed, the maximum punishment shall be imprisonment at hard labor for life. SEC. 283. Arson of etc. ar SEC. 5386. Every person who, in any of the places mentioned in the preceding section, maliciously sets fire to, or burns, any arsenal, armory, magazine, mory, arsenal, rope-walk, shiphouse, warehouse, block-house, or barrack, or any storehouse, barn, or stable, not parcel of a dwelling-house, or any other building not mentioned in such section, or any vessel built, or begun to be built, or repairing, or any light-house, or beacon, or any timber, cables, rigging, or other materials for building, repairing, or fitting out vessels, or any pile of wood, boards, or other lumber, or any military, naval, or victualing stores, arms, or other munitions of war, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than ten years. SEC. 5387. Every person who maliciously sets on fire, or burns, or otherwise destroys any vessel of war of the United States, afloat on the high seas, or in any arm of the sea, or in any river, haven, creek, basin or bay within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State, shall suffer death. 1 thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than twenty years.] 2 3 (R. S., ss. 5386, 5387.) SEC. 284. Whoever shall take and carry away, with 4 intent to steal or purloin, any personal property of another, 5 shall be punished as follows: If the property taken is of a 6 value exceeding fifty dollars, or is taken from the person of 7 another, by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or 8 imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both; in all other 9 cases, by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by 10 imprisonment not more than one year, or both. If the prop11 erty stolen consists of any evidence of debt, or other written 12 instrument, the amount of money due thereon, or secured to 13 be paid thereby, and remaining unsatisfied, or which in any 14 contingency might be collected thereon, or the value of the 15 property the title to which is shown thereby, or the sum which 16 might be recovered in the absence thereof, shall be deemed to 17 be the value of the property stolen. (R. S., s. 5356.) 18 19 SEC. 285. Whoever shall buy, receive, or conceal any money, goods, bank notes, or other thing which may be the 20 subject of larceny, which has been feloniously taken, stolen, or embezzled, from any other person, knowing the same to 22 have been so taken, stolen, or embezzled, shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars and imprisoned not more 21 23 24 than three years; and such person may be tried either before SEC. 284. SEC. 5356. Every person who, upon the high seas, or in any place under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, takes and carries away, with intent to steal or purloin, the personal goods of another, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Larceny. 30 April, 1790, c. 9, s. 16, v. 1, p. 116. 23 Aug., 1842, c. 188, s. 4, v. 5, p. 517. U. S. v. Davis, 5 Mass., 356. SEC. 285. SEC. 5357. Every person who, upon the high seas, or in any place under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, buys, receives, or conceals any money, goods, bank-notes, or other thing which may be the subject of larceny, and which has been feloniously taken or stolen from any other person, knowing the same to have been taken or stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment at hard labor not more than three years. 1 or after the conviction of the principal offender. (R. S., s. 2 5357.) 3 SEC. 286. [Whoever, within the territorial limits of any 4 State, organized Territory, or District, but within or upon 5 6 any of the places now existing or hereafter reserved or acquired, described in section two hundred and sixty 7 nine of this Act, shall do or omit the doing of any act or 8 thing which is not made penal by any law of Congress, but 9 which if committed or omitted within the jurisdiction of the 10 State, Territory, or District in which such place is situated, 11 by the laws thereof now in force would be penal, shall be 12 deemed guilty of a like offense and be subject to a like pun13 ishment; and every such State, Territorial, or District law 14 shall, for the purposes of this section, continue in force, not15 withstanding any subsequent repeal or amendment thereof by 16 any such State, Territory, or District.] (R. S., s. 5391. 17 7 July, 1898, 30 Stat. L., 717, s. 2; 2 Supp., 885.) |