Section 15, The Summary Conviction Offences Ordinance

Any person who shall steal, or shall cut, break, root up,or otherwise destroy or damage, with intent to steal, the whole or . any part of any tree, sapling, or shrub, or any underwood respectively, growing in any park, pleasure-ground, garden, orchard, avenue, street, road, or in any ground adjoining, or belonging to, any dwelling-house, or in any other place, and not exceeding in value one hundred pounds, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, forfeit and pay, over and above the value of the thing stolen, or the amount of injury done, such sum of money, not exceeding one hundred pounds, as to the Magistrate shall seem meet.