Chap. 283.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14, of chapter 192 of
the Code of 1860, as amended and re-enacted by act passed Febr uary
20, 1866, concerning Larceny.

Passed March 1, 1867.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the four-
teenth section of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the
Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, as amended and re-
enacted by the act passed the twentieth of February, eighteen
hundred and sixty-six, entitled an act to amend and re-enact
section fourteen, of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of
the Code of eighteen hundred and sixty, be amended and re-
enacted so as to read as follows:

Ҥ14. If any person steal trom the person of another,
money or other thing of the value of five dollars or more, he
shall be guilty of grand larceny, and be confined in the peni-
tentiary for a period not less than five nor more than ten
years. If any person commit simple larceny, not from the
person of another, of goods and chattels, he shall, if they are
of the value of fifty dollars or more, be deemed guilty of
grand larceny, and be confined in the penitentiary not less
than three. nor more than ten years; and if they he of less
value than five dollars in the first case, or fifty dollars in the
last, he shall be deemed guilty of pettit larceny, and be con-
fined in jail.not exceeding one year, and at the discretion of
the court, may be punished with stripes.”
2. ‘This‘act shall be in force from its passage..