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SEC. 63. Willful injury to boundary monuments or milestones and guideposts: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or fine $10 to $500. SEC. 64. Trespassing upon improved lands: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail from one to six months, or fine $5 to $50.

SEC. 65. Willfully driving over any public bridge at a greater speed than a walk, or driving at one time more than twenty head of cattle, horses, or mules over such bridge: Penalty, fine $10 to $100.

SEC. 66. Trespassing upon the lands of another, cutting or removing timber: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one month to one year, or fine $50 to $1,000.

SEC. 67. Trespassing on inclosed lands without permission of owner, a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $5 to $50, and shall be committed in default of payment of fines and costs imposed one day for each $2 of the said fine and costs.

SEC. 68. Printed or written notices requiring all persons to forbear trespassing posted in three conspicuous places on said lands or premises shall be deemed sufficient prima facie evidence of notice.

SEC. 69. Knowingly using any false weight or measure to defraud another, etc.: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one month to one year, or fine from $50 to $500. SEC. 70. Opening or publishing contents of sealed letter: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one month to one year, or by fine $50 to $500.

SEC. 71. Fraudulently producing an heir with intent to intercept inheritance: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to ten years.

SEC. 72. If any person to whom an infant has been confided shall with intent to deceive any parent or guardian substitute another child in the place of one so confided such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to ten years.

SEC. 73. Officer, etc., of corporation falsifying records: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or fine $50 to $1,000.

SEC. 74. Officer, etc., of corporation publishing false reports: Penalty, as in section 73.

SEC. 75. Trespassing on mining claims or robbing the same: Penalty, imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to five years, or by fine $100 to $1,000, or both.

FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING.

[Chapter 4.]

SEC. 76. Forgery of record, certificate, conveyance, etc.: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to twenty years.

SEC. 77. Forgery of evidence of debt issued by any person or any government, etc.: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to twenty years.

SEC. 78. Making or having in possession tools designed for counterfeiting: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary one to five years.

SEC. 79. Counterfeiting gold, silver, or other coins: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to ten years.

SEC. 80. Making or having in possession tools for counterfeiting coin: Punishable as in section 79.

SEC. 81. Describes what shall be sufficient allegation of intention to defraud.

SEC. 82. Fraudulently joining parts of several bank notes or other genuine instruments with intent to pass them as true and genuine: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to twenty years.

SEC. 83. Making false receipt or altering receipt of goods in warehouse: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to five years, or in county jail from three months to one year.

SEC. 84. Knowingly using or counterfeiting trade-mark of another: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one month to six months, or fine $20 to $300.

SEC. 85. Affixing fictitious signatures to any instrument or writing with intent to pass the same as true and genuine: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to twenty years.

SEC. 86. In prosecutions for forgery or counterfeiting bank notes the testimony of any person acquainted with the signature of the officer authorized to sign the bills of the bank, or who has knowledge of the difference in appearance of the true and counterfeit bills, may be admitted to prove that any such bill is counterfeit.

SEC. 87. Any person having been convicted of any crime defined in any preceding sections of this chapter who shall afterwards be convicted of the same or any other crime so defined shall be punished by imprisonment not less than the longest term mentioned in the section under which he may be indicted and tried.

SEC. 88. Adulterating or selling adulterated gold dust: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary one to five years.

SEC. 89. Having adulterated gold dust in possession with intent to dispose of it as true and genuine: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to five years.

OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE.

[Chapter 5.]

SECS. 90, 91. Perjury and subornation of perjury: Penalty for perjury in a criminal action for a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, imprisonment in the penitentiary from two to twenty years. Perjury committed in any proceeding in a court of justice other than such criminal action, punishable by imprisonment in penitentiary from three to ten years. Every person convicted of perjury otherwise than in a proceeding before a court of justice, or convicted of the crime of subornation of perjury, however committed, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to five years.

SEC. 92. Inciting person to commit perjury: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to three years.

SEC. 93. Bribing or offering to bribe officer: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to ten years.

SEC. 94. Judicial or executive officer receiving or agreeing to receive bribe: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from five to fifteen years.

SEC. 95. "Judicial officer" is thus defined:

That every person authorized to act as a judge in a court of justice; every person summoned as a juror in any court of justice, or upon any inquest, or before any officer, from the time he is so summoned; and every referee, umpire, or arbitrator, from the time of his appointment, shall be held and deemed to be a judicial officer within the meaning of sections 93 and 94, and for the purposes therein expressed. SEC. 96. "Executive officer" is thus defined:

That every officer of said district, or of any county, town, or other municipal or public corporation therein, not included in the definition of judicial officers, as defined in section 95, from the time of his election or appointment, shall be held and deemed to be an executive officer within the meaning of sections 93 and 94, and for the purposes therein expressed.

SEC. 97. Aiding prisoners to escape from prison or legal confinement: Punished as in the following section.

SEC. 98. That if the person whose escape was attempted or effected was committed or detained upon a charge or conviction of a crime punishable with death or imprisonment for life, the punishment therefor shall be imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than ten nor more than twenty years; but if the person whose escape was attempted or effected was committed or detained upon a charge or conviction of a crime not so punishable, the punishment therefor shall be the same as that provided by law for the crime with which such person was charged or convicted; and in case the person whose escape was intended or effected was in custody or confinement upon civil process, or otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of crime, the punishment therefor shall be imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or a fine not less than $100 nor more than $500.

SEC. 99. Officer suffering an escape or refusing to receive person committed to his custody: Penalty, imprisonment one to five years and by fine of $200 to $1,000. SEC. 100. Rescue or aiding prisoner to escape from officer: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to ten years, or in county jail from three months to one year. SEC. 101. Assault upon officer of penitentiary by prisoner: Penalty, additional imprisonment in penitentiary from three to twenty years.

SEC. 102. Aiding escape from penitentiary by assaulting officer: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from two to fifteen years.

SEC. 103. Assault upon officer by person imprisoned in county jail: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from ten to twenty years.

SEC. 104. Aiding escape from county jail by assaulting officer: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from three to ten years.

SEC. 105. Officer refusing or delaying to serve process: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or by fine from $50 to $500.

SEC. 106. Compounding or concealing crime for reward: Penalty, if such crime be punishable with death or imprisonment for life, by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years; or, if such crime is not so punishable, by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $50 nor more than $500.

SEC. 107. Neglecting or refusing to aid officer: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one month to six months, or fine of $25 to $500.

SEC. 108. Falsely assuming to be a magistrate or peace officer: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail from three months to one year, or fine of $50 to $500.

SEC. 109. Malfeasance or negligence in office: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from six months to one year, or in county jail from three months to one year, or by fine from $50 to $500.

SEC. 110. Destroying, secreting, or mutilating public records: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary six months to one year, or in county jail three months to one year, or by fine from $100 to $500.

OFFENSES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE.

[Chapter 6.]

SEC. 111. Defines riot and unlawful assembly.

SEC. 112. If any person shall be guilty of participating in a riot, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as follows:

First. If any felony or misdemeanor was committed in the course of such riot, such person shall be punished in the same manner as the principal in such crime. Second. If such person carried at the time of such riot any species of dangerous weapon, or was disguised, or encouraged or solicited other persons who participated in the riots to acts of force or violence, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than fifteen years.

Third. In all other cases such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $50 nor more than $500.

SEC. 113. Disturbing the peace in towns and villages, using profane language, or driving any horse or mule through the streets at a greater speed than 6 miles per hour, a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $5 to $50.

SEC. 114. Willfully disturbing religious meetings or exposing for sale or gift intoxicating liquors within 2 miles of the place where any such congregation shall be actually convened for religious worship, and in a place other than such as shall have been duly licensed therefor: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail from one to six months, or fine $10 to $200.

SEC. 115. Disturbing other public meetings: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one to three months, or fine $10 to $100.

SEC. 116. Disorderly conduct before women: Penalty, fine from $5 to $25. SEC. 117. Carrying concealed weapons, unlawful: Penalty (section 118), fine $10 to $200, or imprisonment in county jail five days to one hundred, or both.

OFFENSES AGAINST MORALITY AND DECENCY.

[Chapter 7.]

Adultery.SEC. 119. Whoever, being married, shall voluntarily have sexual intercourse with a person other than the offender's husband or wife is guilty of adultery, and shall be fined not more than $200, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months.

SEC. 120. A prosecution for the crime of adultery shall be commenced within three years from the time of committing the crime. When the crime of adultery is cominitted between a married woman and an unmarried man, the man shall be deemed guilty of adultery also, and be punished accordingly.

SEC. 121. Whoever cohabits with another in a state of adultery or fornication shall be fined not more than $500, or imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than two years, or both.

Polygamy.-SEC. 122. Whoever, having a husband or wife, marries another, whether married or single, or simultaneously, or on the same day, marries more than one woman, is guilty of polygamy, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than seven years nor less than one year. This section does not extend to any person whose husband or wife has been continually absent for five consecutive years, and is not known to such person to be living, and is believed by such person to be dead, nor to any person legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.

Seduction.-SEC. 123. If any person, under promise of marriage, shall seduce and have illicit connection with any unmarried female of previous chaste character, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $500 nor more than $1,000. A subsequent marriage of the parties, or offer to marry in good faith, is a defense to a violation of this section.

Indecent exposure.-SEC. 124. If any person shall willfully and lewdly expose his person or the private parts thereof in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby, or shall take any part in any model artist exhibition, or make any other exhibition of himself to public view, or to the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $50 nor more than $500.

Concealing death of child.-SEC. 125. If any woman shall conceal the death of any issue of her body, so that it may not be known whether such issue was born alive or not, or whether it was not murdered, such woman, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than one year, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year.

Indictment of mother for murder of bastard.-SEC. 126. When a woman is indicted for the murder of her bastard infant, she may also be charged in the same indictment with the crime defined in the last preceding section, and if she shall be found not guilty of the charge of murder she may be found guilty of the crime defined in such section, and punished accordingly.

Keeping bawdyhouse.-SEC. 127. If any person shall keep or set up a house of ill fame, brothel, or bawdyhouse for the purpose of prostitu ion, fornication, or lewdness, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than $100 nor more than $500.

Common fame evidence of bawdyhouse.-SEC. 128. In all prosecutions for the crime defined in the section last preceding, common fame shall be competent evidence in support of the indictment.

Incest.-SEC. 129. If any person related to another person within and not including the fourth degree of consanguinity, computed according to the rules of the civil law, shall marry or cohabit with, or have sexual intercourse with such other so related person, knowing her or him to be within said degree of relationship, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of incest, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three years and not more than fifteen years.

Sodomy.-SEC. 130. If any person shall commit sodomy, or the crime against nature, either with mankind or beast, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years.

Trespassing in graveyards, etc.-SEC. 131. If any person shall willfully and wrongfully dig up, disinter, remove, or convey away any human body, or the remains thereof, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than two years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months nor more than one year.

SEC. 132. Injuring tombstones and trespassing in graveyards a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $5 to $500 and imprisonment in county jail from one to thirty days; offender also liable to action for tresspass.

SEC. 133. Making roads through graveyards: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or fine $100 to $500.

Cruelty to animals.-SEC. 134. Penalty, imprisonment in county jail ten to thirty days, or fine $5 to $50.

OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY.

[Chapter 8.]

Lotteries.-SEC. 135. Setting up or promoting lotteries: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary six months to one year, or imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or by fine of $100 to $1,000.

SEC. 136. Selling lottery tickets: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or fine $50 to $500.

SEC. 137. Advertising lottery tickets: Penalty, imprisonment in county jail one to six months, or fine $20 to $200.

SEC. 138. Selling tickets in fictitious lotteries: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary one to three years.

SEC. 139. Indicates when defendant must prove existence of lottery.

SEC. 140. If any person having been convicted of a crime defined in sections 135 and 136 shall afterwards be convicted of the same or any other crime therein defined, such person shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to three years.

Profanation of Sunday.-SEC. 141. If any person shall keep open any store, shop, grocery, ball alley, billiard room, or tippling house, for purpose of labor or traffic, or any place of amusement, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday or the Lord's day, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not less than five nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That the above provision shall not apply to the keepers of drug stores, doctor shops, undertakers, liverystable keepers, barbers, butchers, and bakers, and all circumstances of necessity and mercy may be pleaded in defense, which shall be treated as questions of fact for the jury to determine, when the offense is tried by jury.

Selling liquor or firearms to Indians.-SEC. 142. Penalty, imprisonment in county jail two months to six months, or fine $100 to $500.

Animals at large.-SEC. 143. Suffering vicious animals to run at large: Penalty, fine $10 to $50.

Prostitution.-SEC. 144. Taking female under 16 years of age for purposes of prostitution or marriage from parents or guardian: Penalty, imprisonment in penitentiary from one to two years, or imprisonment in county jail three months to one year, or fine $100 to $500.

Opium selling and smoking.-SEC. 145. Disposing of opium other than to druggists and practicing physicians, except on prescription of a physician, made unlawful. SEC. 146. Selling opium to be smoked on or about the premises where sold, unlawful.

SEC. 147. Any building where opium is sold for the purpose of being smoked on or about the premises, or where the same is smoked, shall be considered an opium den.

SEC. 148. Makes it unlawful to frequent opium dens for the purpose of purchasing or smoking opium.

SEC. 149. Penalty for violating any of the four sections last preceding, imprisonment in the penitentiary six months to two years, or imprisonment in county jail one to six months, or fine $50 to $500.

SEC. 150. In prosecutions for any violation of the provisions of sections 146, 147, 148, general reputation shall be received in evidence.

Vagrancy.-SEC. 151. Defines vagrancy: All idle or dissolute persons who have no visible means of living, or lawful occupation or employment by which to earn a living; all able-bodied persons who shall be found begging the means of support in public places, or from house to house, or who shall procure a child or children so to do; all persons who live in houses of ill repute, shall be deemed vagrants, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $20 nor more than $250, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten nor more than twenty-five days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Gambling.-SEC. 152. Forbids gambling: Each and every person who shall deal, play, or carry on, open or cause to be opened, or who shall conduct, either as owner, proprietor, or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, rouge-et-noir, lansquenet, rondo, vingt-un, twenty-one, poker, draw poker, brag, bluff, thaw, craps, or any banking or other game played with cards, dice, or any other device, whether the same shall be played for money, checks, credit, or any other representative of value, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine and costs are paid: Provided, That such person so convicted shall be imprisoned one day for every two dollars of such fine and costs: And provided further, That such imprisonment shall not exceed one year.

OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC CONVENIENCE.

[Chapter 9.]

Obstructing navigation.-SEC. 153. Throwing ballast into navigable streams: Penalty, in county jail three months to one year, or fine $100 to $500.

SEC. 154. Injuring buoys or beacons, a misdemeanor: Penalty, a fine, $100 to $200, or imprisonment in county jail one month to six months, or by both.

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