Any person who steals any goods, chattels, any government note or bank note or promissory note, bill or exchange, bond, or other thing in action, any book of accounts, order or certificate conveying any money or goods due or to become due or to be delivered, any deed or writing containing a conveyance of land or any interest therein, any bill of sale or writing containing a conveyance of goods or chattels, or any interest therein, or any other valuable contract in force, or any receipt, release, or defeasance, or any writ, process, or public record, the property of another, within the corporate limits, and when the goods, chattels, or other property of another so stolen, taken, and carried away do not exceed in value the sum of $35.00, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, to-wit, petit larceny.
(Code 1962 § 13-40)