Chapter 289. to more effectually punish house-breaking in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 289.— An Act to more effectually punish house-breaking in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.July 12, 1882. *Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Punishment for house-breaking, etc., in District of Columbia. That every person, his aiders, abettors, and counselors, who shall either in the night or day, break and enter, or who shall in the nighttime enter without breaking into any dwelling-house, bank, store, warehouse, shop, stable, or other building or any vessel, canal-boat, or other water craft, or any railroad car, in the District of Columbia, with intent to commit any larceny or other felony or misdemeanor therein, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years.
Sec. 2. That every person who shall enter any dwelling-house, bank, store, warehouse, shop, stable, or other building or any vessel, canal-boat, or other water craft, or any railroad car, or any yard where lumber, coal, or any sort of goods and chattels are deposited and kept for the purpose of trade in the District of Columbia, with the intent maliciously to injure or destroy any of the buildings, vessels, boats, or cars, aforesaid, or any part thereof, or any property or effects deposited or kept therein, or any property or effects deposited or kept in or upon any such yard or with intent to slay, kill, maim, or assault any person being in or upon any of the premises aforesaid, upon conviction thereof, shall Imprisonment.be imprisoned not more than fifteen years.
This act shall not affect any offense committed or indictment found before its passage Approved, July 12, 1882.