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 F1F'rY-s1XTH ooNGa.ass. sm. 11. ca. sai. 1901. 1327 be false or forged, with the intent to defraud or prejudice the right of another, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more than ten years. Sec. 844. Dmsraorme oa DEFAGING PUBLIC REcoR1>s.—VVhoever f D¢S¤¤5‘i¤s er demaliciously orwith intent to injure or defraud any other person defaces, mug p“bim°°°mS` mutilates, destroys, abstracts, or conceals the whole or any part of any record authorized by law to be made, or pertainin to any court or public office in the District, or any paper duly filet? in such court o1· office, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Sec. 845. FALsE CERTIFICATE or AcKNowLEDe1~1E1v1·.—Any oirlicer M@}gg_,<;§r*i“<‘¤*€ <>* ., , an gment. authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment of an instrument. which, by law, may be recorded, who willfully certifies falsely that the instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto, or who willfully certifies falsely as to any other material matter in such acknowledg- 1nent, shall be imprisoned for not less than one year nor ll101`€ than ten years. Sec. 846. MAL1o1oUs 1NJUaY.—Whoever maliciouslv places an _Q,§_**‘j;;§§;fi*15¤f!‘· . " . .. or street 0bSiJ1‘l`|.Ct1OI1 on or near the track of any steam or street railway, or ml»»·»n·». displaces or injures anything appertaining to such track, with intent to endanger the passage of any locomotive or car, shall be imprisoned for not more than ten years. Sec. 847. Whoever maliciously cuts down or destroys, by girdling —*··¤M·—·¢¢¢- or otherwise, any standing or growing vine, bush, shrub, sapling, or tree on the land of another, or severs from the land of another any product standing or growing thereon, or any other thing attached thereto, shall, if the value of the thing destroyed or the amount of damage done to any such thing or to the land is thirty-five dollars or 1nore, be imprisoned for not less than one year nor more thanlthree years, or, if such value or amount is less than that sum, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be im risoned not more than one year, or both. Sino. 848. Whoever maliciously injures or destroys, or attempts to ;g’w$)?>' *“°"**‘>l° injure or destroy, by fire or otherwise, any movable property not his ` own, of the value of thirty-five dollars or more, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than ten years, and if the value of the propert be less than thirty-five dollars, by a fine not exceedin two hundred drollars, or by imprisonment not exceedingw one year, orioth. Sec. 849. STEALING oa mmarse Books, AND so FoRcm.——Any per- b0§,gg1{3;§··*i¤·i·¤¤i¤g son who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy " ` any book, pamphlet, or manuscript, or any portion thereof belonging to the Library of Congress, or to any public library in the District of Columbia, whether the property of the glnited States or of any individual or corporation in said District, or who shall steal, wrongfully deface, injure, mutilate, tear, or destroy any book, pamphlet, document, manuscript, print, engraving, medal, newspaper, or work of art, the property of the United States, shall be hel guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall, when the offense is not otherwise punishable by some statute of°the United States, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment for not less than one month nor ll101‘B than one year, or both, for every such oHense. Sec. 850. If any person shall maliciously cut down, demolish, or __}¤;g;¤yjj¤g Dye-¤¤l¤—· otherwise injure any railing, fence, or inclosure around or u on any in ° °" " cemetery, or shall injure or deface any tomb or inscription tihereon. he shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. Sec. 851. Fonornmc ENTRY Asn DETAINER.·—\vi10€V€?‘ shall forcibly d__§`;*;§§;‘° °**”>‘ Mm enter upon any premises, or, having entered without force, shall unlaw— ` fully detain the same by force against any person previously in the