Chapter LV. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes in the District of Columbia.”*July 03, 1852. *Whereas*, it has been represented that so much of the third section of1831, CH. 37
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Chap. LV.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act for the Punishment of Crimes in the District of Columbia.”*July 03, 1852. *Whereas*, it has been represented that so much of the third section of1831, CH. 37. Preamble. the act to which this act is an amendment, as provides a punishment for the maliciously, wilful, or fraudulent burning of stores, barns, or out-houses not adjoining a dwelling-house, has been construed to apply to the cases of burning such houses only when they contain merchandise, tobacco, grain, or hay, whereby offenders have escaped punishment for burning buildings in which none of said articles were kept, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That from and afterPenalty for burning or setting ou fire with intent to burn or attempting to set on fire or burn any house or out-house in the Districk of Colum. with the intent to defraud. the passage of this act, if any person or persons shall maliciously, wilfully, or fraudulently, and with intent to injure or defraud any other person or persons, or body politic or corporate, burn, or set on fire with intent to burn, or attempt to set on fire or burn, any house or outhouse, in the District of Columbia, whether the same be finished or in process of erection, though the said house or outhouse shall not, at the time of such burning or setting on fire, or attempting to set on fire or burn, have any goods, tobacco, hay, or grain therein, nor be adjoining to any dwelling-house, nor be occupied or used for any purpose whatever; he, she, or they, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to suffer the same punishment and labor, as is provided in the said third section of the said act1831, ch. 37. to which this i an amendment for the offences therein enumerated.
Approved, July 3, 1852.