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Oct. 17, 1862, $7. or any tree or other object used in any line of telegraph,

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or shall willfully and maliciously break, displace, or injure any insulator in use in any telegraph line, or shall willfully and maliciously cut, break, or remove from its insulators any wire used as a telegraph line, or shall, by the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully and maliciously destroy the insulation of such telegraph line, or interrupt the transmission of the electric current through the same, or shall in any other manner willfully and maliciously injure, molest, or destroy, any property or materials appertaining to any telegraph line, or belonging to any telegraph company, or shall willfully and maliciously interfere with the use of any telegraph line, or obstruct or postpone the transmission of any message over the same, or procure or advise any such injury, interference, or obstruction, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and shall moreover be liable to the telegraph company, whose property is injured or line obstructed, in a sum equal to one hundred times the amount of actual damages sustained thereby.

§ 2002. [739.] If any officer, agent, operator, clerk, or employee of any telegraph company, or any other person, shall willfully divulge to any other person than the party from whom the same was received, or to whom the same is addressed, or his agent or attorney, any message received or sent, or intended to be sent, over any telegraph line, or the contents, substance, purport, effect, or meaning of such message, or any part thereof, or shall willfully alter any such message, by adding thereto or omitting therefrom any word or words, figure or figures, so as to materially change the sense, purport, or meaning of such message, to the injury of the person sending or desiring to send the same, or to whom the same was directed, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of

or altering

a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to Oct. 17, 1862, § & exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to Divulging exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, dispatch. in the discretion of the court; provided, that when numerals or words of number occur in any message, the operator or clerk sending or receiving may express the same in words or figures, or in both words and figures, and such fact shall not be deemed an alteration of the message, nor in any manner affect its genuineness, force, or validity.

delivering

§ 2003. [740.] If any agent, operator, employee, in Id., $ 9. any telegraph office, or other person, shall, knowingly sending or and willfully, send by telegraph, to any person or per- false dispatch. sons, any false or forged message, purporting to be from such telegraph office, or from any other person, or shall willfully deliver, or cause to be delivered, to any person, any such message, falsely purporting to have been received by telegraph, or if any person or persons shall furnish or conspire to furnish, or cause to be furnished, to any such agent, operator, or employee, to be sent by telegraph or to be so delivered, any such message, knowing the same to be false or forged, with the intention to deceive, injure, or defraud any individual, partnership, or corporation, or the public, the person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

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§ 2004. [741.] If any agent, operator, or employee, Id., $ 10. in any telegraph office, shall, in any way, use or appro- Servant of priate any information derived by him from any private using informa message or messages, passing through his hands, and addressed to any other person or persons, or in any other manner acquired by him, by reason of his trust as such agent, operator, or employee, or shall trade or speculate upon any such information so obtained, or in any manner turn or attempt to turn the same to his account,

Oct. 17, 1862, $10.

Servant of company

using informa

profit, or advantage, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisontion contained ment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and shall also be liable, in treble damages, to the party aggrieved, for all loss or injury sustained by reason of such wrongful act.

in dispatch.

Id., 11.

Refusing to send or delay

§ 2005. [742.] If any agent, operator, or employee, in any telegraph office, shall unreasonably and willfully ing dispatch. refuse or neglect to send any message received at such office for transmission, or shall unreasonably or willfully postpone the same out of its order, or shall unreasonably and willfully refuse or neglect to deliver any message received by telegraph, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require any message to be received, transmitted, or delivered, unless the charges thereon shall have been paid or tendered, nor to require the sending, receiving, or delivery of any message counseling, aiding, abetting, or encouraging treason against the government of the United States or of this state, or other resistance to the lawful authority, or any message calculated to further any fraudulent plan or purpose, or to instigate or encourage the perpetration of any unlawful act, or to facilitate the escape of any criminal or person accused of crime.

Id., § 12.

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for another.

§ 2006. [743.] If any person, not connected with any telegraph office, shall, without the authority or consent patch intended of the person or persons to whom the same may be directed, willfully or unlawfully open any sealed envelope inclosing a telegraphic message, and addressed to any other person or persons, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or shall fraudulently rep

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resent any other person or persons, and thereby procure Oct. 17, 1862, to be delivered to himself, any telegraphic message, Wrongfully addressed to such other person or persons, with the obtaining disintent to use, destroy, or detain the same from the per- for another. son or persons entitled to receive such message, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; and shall moreover be liable in treble damages to the party injured, for all loss and damage sustained by reason of such wrongful act.

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§ 2007. [744.] If any person, not connected with any Id., § 13. telegraph company, shall, by means of any machine, Taking infor instrument, or contrivance, or in any other manner, wire, etc. willfully and fraudulently read or attempt to read any message, or to learn the contents thereof, whilst the same is being sent over any telegraph line, or shall willfully and fraudulently or clandestinely learn or attempt to learn the contents or meaning of any message, while the same is in any telegraph office, or is being received thereat, or is sent therefrom, or shall use or attempt to use, or communicate to others, any information so obtained by any person, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

tor to disclose

message.

§ 2008. [745.] If any person shall, by the payment or 1a., § 14. promise of any bribe, inducement, or reward, procure Bribing opera or attempt to procure any telegraphic agent, operator, or private employee to disclose any private message, or the contents, purport, substance, or meaning thereof, or shall offer to any such agent, operator, or employee any bribe, compensation, or reward for the disclosure of any private information received by him, by reason of his trust as such agent, operator, or employee, or shall use or attempt to use any such information so obtained, the

Oct. 17, 1862, $ 14.

Bribing operator to disclose private message.

Id., 25.

Using mark

or device of company.

person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

§ 2009. [746.] The president or secretary of any telegraph company in this state may file in the office of the county clerk, in which the principal office of said county is situated, a copy of any printed blank or envelope, picture or device, used or intended to be used by said company, with his certificate that the same is commonly used, or is intended so to be, in the business of said company, as a distinguishing mark, notice, or index of said business, and thereupon such blank, envelope, picture, or device shall become the property of said company; and it shall not be lawful for any person, unless by the employment or permission of said company, to print, publish, distribute, or use, or cause to be printed, published, distributed, or used, either of them, or any copy, counterfeit, or imitation thereof. Any person willfully offending against the provisions of this section may be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months.

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§ 2015.

§ 2016.

Person not punishable for omission when performed by another.
Misdemeanor, punishment for.

§ 2017. Attempt to commit crime, punishment for.

§ 2018. Section 2017, how construed.

§ 2019. Sentence of imprisonment in penitentiary, when it commences; vol

untary absence not counted.

§ 2020. Treatment and employment of convicts to be governed by law reg ulating prison discipline; what to be specified.

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