Chap. 16.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact ‘‘the Act entitled an Act to
to Amend and Re-enact Section 14 of Chapter 192 of the Code of 1860,
as Amended and Re-enacted by Act passed February 20, 1866, concern-
ing Larceny ; and to Repeal the Act passed February 12, 1866, entitled
an Act to Provide more effectually for the Punishment of Horse
Stealing.”

Approved January 16, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act passed
the twentieth of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, en-
titled 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:

“8 14. If any person steal from the person of another money
or other things of the value of five dollars or more, he shall
be guilty of grand larceny, and be confined in the penitentiary
for a period not less than five, nor more than ten years. If
any person commit simple larceny, not from the person of an-
other, 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 be of less value than five
dollars in the first case, or fifty dollars in the last, he shall be
deemed guilty of petit larceny, and be confined in jail not ex-
ceeding one year, and at the discretion of the court may be
punished with stripes. But any person who shall be guilty of
the larceny of a horse, mule or jackass, shall be punished by
confinement in the penitentiary for a period of not less than
three, nor more than eighteen years.” .

2. The act passed February the twelfth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-six, entitled an act to provide more effectually for the
punishment of horse stealing, shall be, and the same is hereby

ed. .
3. This act shall be in force from its passage.