Chapter 60.
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CHAP. 60.— AN ACT to prevent depredations upon property in the District of ColumbiaApril 17, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Depredation on fixtures in houses in District of Columbia. That every person who, in the District of Columbia, shall willfully and without color of right, enter into any occupied or unoccupied dwelling-house or other building, the property of another, and shall cut, break, or tear from its place any gas-pipe, water-pipe, doorbell, or other fixture therein; or who shall, in such dwelling-house or other building, willfully and without color of right cut, break, or tear down any wall, or part of a wall, or door, with intent to cut, break, or tear from its place any pipe or fixture therein, Penalty.shall, for the first offense, be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the District jail not less than two months or more than one year, and for any subsequent offense shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one year or more than three years.
Approved, April 17, 1878.