Chap. 324.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact Section five of Chapter
one hundred and ninety-two, of the Code of 1860, in Relation to Offences
against Property, so as to Punish more Rigorously in certain cases the
Crime of Arson.

Approved March 21, 1873.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section five c
of chapter one hundred and ninety-two of the Code of Virginia, }
edition of eighteen hundred and sixty, in relation to offences a
against property, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as *
follows:

§ 5. If any person maliciously burn any pile or parcel of
wood, boards or other lumber, or any barn, stable, corn house,
tobacco house, stack of wheat or other grain, or of fodder,
straw or hay, he shall, if the thing burnt with the property ;
therein be of the value of one hundred dollars, be confined in v
the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years,
and if it be of less value, he shall be so confined not less than
one nor more than five years. |

2. This act shall be in force from its passage. C