facing of guide ings, etc. fully or maliciously cut, carve, otherwise deface or injure Malicious deany guide board, bridge, building, column, monument or boards, buildstructure, grounds or trees, belonging to the public or any incorporated charitable, religious or scientific institution, shall on conviction thereof be fined in any sum not greater Penalty. than five hundred nor less than ten dollars. property. SEC. 32. Any malicious, willful, reckless or voluntary Injury to U.S. injury to or mutilation of the grounds, buildings or other property of the United States within this state shall subject the offender or offenders to a fine not greater than five Penalty. hundred dollars nor less than twenty dollars, to which may be added, for an aggravated offense, imprisonment not exceeding six months in the county jail or workhouse, to be prosecuted before any court of competent jurisdiction. A false and measures. butter or cheese. SEC. 33. Every person who uses any weight or measure, False weights knowing it to be false, by which use another is defrauded or otherwise injured, is guilty of a misdemeanor. weight or measure is one which does not conform to the standard established by the laws of the United States. SEC. 34. No person or persons shall sell, supply, or offer Imitation of for sale or exchange any oleaginous substance, or any compound of the same, purporting to be butter or cheese, or having the semblance of butter or cheese, other than that produced from wholesome and unadulterated milk, or cream of the same, unless the said oleaginous substance, and the package containing the same, shall be marked so as to plainly indicate its true character and distinguish it from pure and genuine dairy products; and in any public dining or eating room where imitation dairy product or products are commonly or knowingly used as an article of food, the bill of fare used in such dining or eating room shall state the fact in the same sized type as is used in printing the body of said bill of fare; or if no bill of fare. is used, then, in a conspicuous place of said dining or eating room, easily seen by any one entering said room, shall be posted a notice stating the name or names of such imitation dairy products: Provided, That the addition of harmless coloring matter to any product manufactured from pure, unadulterated milk, or the cream thereof, shall come within the provisions of this act: Provided further, Sig. 9. Impure milk. That milk drawn from cows within fifteen days before and five days after parturition shall be construed to be unclean, impure and unwholesome. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by not less than one month nor more than three months' imprisonment in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Willfully misrepresenting pedigree of breeding animals. Penalty Fraudulent banking or cor SEC. 35. Any person who is the owner, agent or keeper, or in any way interested in the ownership or the keeping of any stallion, bull, ram or boar, that may be kept for the use of the general public for pay, and who shall knowingly and willfully misrepresent the pedigree or blood of any such stallion, bull, ram or boar, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall be liable for all damages that may be sustained by reason of such misrepresentation. SEC. 36. Any person or persons now or hereafter enporation sign. gaged in the business of banking who shall put up or cause to be put up, or exhibit, any sign or advertisement, purporting thereby to be an incorporated bank, or shall do business under a corporate name, when they are not such, shall on conviction thereof be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. Penalty. Fire-hunting for game. Penalty. SEC. 37. Sections 1288 and 1289 of the code of Washington of 1881 are consolidated into one section, amended to read as one section as follows: Every person who shall fire-hunt for deer, moose or elk, except within the bounds of his own inclosure, or by the permission of the owner of any other inclosure, shall upon conviction thereof be fined twenty dollars for each and every offense, one-half of said fine to go to the informer and the other half into the common school fund of the county where such act is done. SEC. 38. Section 1 of an act entitled "An act for the protection of fish and game," approved February 2, 1888, Unlawful kill is amended to read as follows: Every person who shall, within the State of Washington, between the first day of ing of game. January and the fifteenth day of August, pursue, hunt, take, kill or destroy any elk, moose, deer, fawn, mountain sheep or mountain goat, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take, kill or destroy any elk, moose, deer, fawn, mountain sheep or goat, at any time, unless the carcass of such animal is used or preserved for food by the person slaying it, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall, between the first day of January and the fifteenth day of August, sell or offer for sale any hides or horns of any elk, moose, deer, fawn, mountain sheep or goat, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. with dogs. SEC. 39. Section 2 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who Hunting game shall, within the State of Washington, chase, pursue, drive Close season. or hunt any elk or moose with dog or dogs, at any time except during the months of October, November and December, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. birds. SEC. 40. Section 6 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who Trapping game shall, within the State of Washington, at any time, trap, net or ensnare, or attempt to trap, net or ensnare, any quail, prairie chicken, grouse or pheasant, except for the purposes of propagation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Destroying eggs of wild water fowls and other wild SEC. 41. Section 7 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who shall within the State of Washington, remove or destroy any egg or eggs from the nest of any mallard duck, birds. widgeon, wood duck, teal, butter-ball, spoon bill, gray duck, black duck, sprig-tail, blue bill, red-head or canvasback duck, or prairie chicken, blue or dusky grouse, mountain grouse, ruffed grouse, or pheasant, sage-hen, quail or partridge, or willfully molest or destroy the nest of any such fowls or birds, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. ing of fish. SEC. 42. Section 8 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who Unlawful takshall, within the State of Washington, at any time during the months of November, December, January, February and March, take, catch, kill or have in their possession any brook trout, mountain trout, bull trout or salmon trout, Possession prima facie evidence. Killing game birds at night. other devices prohibited. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take, catch, kill or have in their possession any of the food fishes implanted in the creeks, rivers, lakes or bogs of the State of Washington, except for propagating the same, for a period of three years after the same shall have been implanted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 43. Section 10 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who shall, within the State of Washington, have in his possession any of the animals, fowls, birds or fish mentioned in section one, two, three, four, five or eight of the act hereby amended, at any time when by any of said sections it is made unlawful to take or kill the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and proof of the possession by any person any of the aforesaid animals, fowls, birds or fish when it is unlawful to take or kill the same, shall be prima facie evidence that the animals, fowls, birds or fish were unlawfully taken or killed by the person having possession of the same, within the county wherein the same may be found: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall prohibit any person from taming or keeping for the purpose of propagation or curiosity any of the animals, fowls or birds mentioned therein. of SEC. 44. Section 11 of said act approved February 2, 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who shall, within the State of Washington, take, kill, shoot at or injure or destroy any mallard duck, widgeon, teal, butterball, spoon-bill, wood-duck, gray duck, black duck, bluebill, read-head, sprig-tail or canvass-back duck, at any season of the year, between the hours of eight o'clock P. M. and five o'clock A. M., shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 45. Section 13 of said act approved February 2, Use of blinds or 1888, is amended to read as follows: Every person who shall, within the State of Washington, use any sink-box, floating blind, rafts, sneak-boat, punt or any other device for approaching any of the water fowl mentioned in this chapter, while the same are resting on the waters of this state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent the shooting of any of the water fowl mentioned therein from shore blinds, or over decoys, with any gun which is fired from the shoulder of the shooter. SEC. 46. All acts and parts of acts in force at the time of the passage of this act relating to the same subject are continued in force so far as not repugnant to the provisions of this act, and the provisions of this act, so far as they are the same as those of acts and parts of acts upon the same subject in force at the time of the passage hereof, are to be construed as continuations of such provisions. All persons guilty of violations of any act heretofore in force, relating to the same subject as this act, may be prosecuted and convicted of such violations as if this act had not been passed. Approved March 2, 1891. CHAPTER LXX. DISPOSING OF MONEY IN CERTAIN CASES. AN ACT to provide for the disposal of money in certain cases, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That whenever any money may be or come into the possession of any public officer, as such, to which, as such, said officer has no right, or to which he shall cease as such officer to have any right, and no other person has or appears to have any right or claim thereto, and no provision is made by law for the disposal of such money, otherwise than as provided by this act, such public officer shall pay such money to the state treasurer and take his receipt therefor, and such receipt shall fully protect such officer so paying the same in any suit or action in relation thereto. school fund. SEC. 2. That the state treasurer shall add all money re- Permanent ceived by virtue of the provisions of this act to the permanent school fund, and the same shall be and constitute a part of such fund. |