s. 695, Pen. C.
§ 6886. Every person who shall wilfully or negligently maltreat or abuse any domestic animal by exposure to heat or cold, or by deprivation of food or water, or by leaving bitched in the open air during cold weather or storm, or in the night time, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. Any officer finding an animal so maltreated or abused, shall cause the same to be taken care of, and the charges therefor shall be a lien upon such animal, to be collected thereon as upon a pledge.
Instigating fights between animals.s. 695, Pen. C.
§ 6887. Every person who maliciously, or for any bet, stake or reward, instigates, encourages or promotes any fight between animals, or instigates or encourages any animal to attack, bite, wound or worry another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Keeping houses or pits for fighting animals.s. 695, Pen. C.
§ 6888. Every person who keeps any house, pit, or other place, to be used in permitting any fight between animals or in any other violation of the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Wounding or trapping birds in cemetery.s. 695, Pen. C.
s. 2, c. 111, 1885.
§ 6889. Every person who, within any public cemetery or burying ground, wounds or traps any birds or destroys any bird's nest, or removes any eggs or young birds from any nest; and every person who buys or sells, or offers or keeps for sale, any bird which has been killed or trapped in violation of this section, is punishable by a fine of five dollars for each offense, recoverable by a civil action in any justice's court within the county where the offense is committed, brought in the name of any person making a complaint.
Burning buildings or grain.s. 695, Pen. C.
§ 6890. Every person who wilfully burns any building not the subject of arson, any stack of grain of any kind, or of any hay, any growing or standing grain, grass, trees, or fence, not the property of such person, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding four years and not less than one year, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.
Injuring houses of worship.s. 700, Pen. C.
§ 6891. Every person who wilfully breaks, defaces, or otherwise injures any house of worship, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance thereto, or any book, furniture, ornament, musical instrument, article of silver or plated ware, or other chattel kept therein for use in connection with religious worship, is guilty of felony.
Destroying building with gunpowder or other explosive.s. 701, Pen. C.
§ 6892. Every person who maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder, or other explosive substance, destroys, throws down, or injures the whole or any part of any building, by means of which the life or safety of any human being is endangered, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years and not less than three.
Endangering human life with explosive.s. 702, Pen. C.
§ 6893. Every person who places in, upon, under, against, or near to any building any gunpowder or other explosive substance, with intent to destroy, throw down or injure the whole or any part thereof, under circumstances that, if such intent were accomplished, human life or safety would be endangered thereby, although no damage is done, is guilty of felony.
Malicious injury to freehold.s. 703, Pen. C.
s. 1, c. 42, 1879.
§ 6894. Every person who wilfully commits any trespass by either:
1. Cutting down or destroying any kind of wood or timber, standing or growing upon the lands of another; or, driving or riding through, into, or across any cultivated hedge or tree row, or any grove of ornamental trees or orchard of fruit trees grow-1132
