Coviction of prin cipal not necessa same extent as for the stealing the money, property or other thing so bought or received. SEC. 87. In any indictment, for any offense specified in the last ry in said offense. section, it shall not be necessary to aver, nor on the trial thereof to prove, that the principal who embezzled, took, secreted or stole such property, has been convicted. Obtaining money or property by pretences. SEC. 88. Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud false tokens or another, shall, designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any other false pretence, obtain the signature of any person. to any written instrument, or obtain from any person any money, personal property, right in action, or other valuable thing or effects whatsoever, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished in the same manner and to the same extent as for feloniously stealing the money, property or thing so obtained. Punishment. Punishment in creased when the promissory note, to be SEO. 89. If the false token, by which any signature, money, false token is a property, right in action or other thing shall be obtained, as Issued by a bank specified in the last section, be a promissory note, bill of exchange, not in oxistence. check or evidence of debt, purporting to have been made or issued by or under authority of any banking company or corporation not in existence, the person convicted of such cheat may be punished by confinement and hard labor not exceeding seven years. Defendant in indictment under may be convicted of larceny. SEC. 90. If, upon the trial of any person indicted for any two last sections offense prohibited in the last two sections, it shall be proved that he obtained the property or other thing in question, in such manner as to amount in law to a larceny, he shall not, by reason thereof, be entitled to an acquittal, but he shall be convicted and punished as if the offense had been proved as charged. Money obtained by personating stealing. SEC. 91. Every person who shall falsely represent or personate another deemed another, and, in such assumed character, shall receive any money, goods, rights in action, or property or effects of any description, belonging or intended to be delivered to the individual so personated, shall, upon conviction, be punished in the same manner and to the same extent, as for feloniously stealing the money, property or other thing so received. Parties and pri vies to fraudulent punished. SEC. 92. Every person who, being a party to any conveyance conveyances, how or assignment of any estate or interest in real estate, goods or things in action, of any rents or profits issued therefrom, or to any charge upon such estate, interest, rents or profits, made or created, with intent to defraud prior or subsequent purchasers, or to hinder, delay or defraud creditors or other persons, and every person being privy to or knowing of any such conveyance, assignment or charge, who shall willingly put the same in use, as having been made in good faith, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. ond deed fraudulently, a misdemeanor. SEC. 93. Every person who shall make, execute or deliver any Executing a "seedeed or writing for the conveyance or assurance of any lands, letting the first, tenements or hereditaments, goods or chattels, which he had previously, by deed or writing, sold, conveyed, mortgaged or assured, or covenanted to convey or assure to any other person, such first deed being outstanding and in force, and shall not, in such second deed or writing, recite or describe such former deed or writing, or the substance thereof, with intent to defraud, and every person who shall knowingly take or receive such second deed or writing, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 94. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously destroy or injure any boat or vessel, or any engine or machinery for propelling the same, whether the same be completed or in an unfinished state, or shall unlawfully or maliciously cast away or strand, or in anywise injure any boat or vessel, with intent thereby to injure or prejudice any owner or part owner of such boat or vessel, or of any goods on board the same, or the insurer of such boat or vessel, or on the freight thereof, or upon any goods on board the same, the person so offending shall be punished by confinement and hard labor not exceeding seven years. Maliciously deboat or vessel, stroying or injur ing intent prejudice the own era, how punished. exposing poison ment. SEC. 95. Every person who shall wilfully administer any poison Administering or to any domestic animal, or shall maliciously expose any poison- to cattle, punishous substance, with intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by any domestic animal, shall, upon conviction, be punished by confinement and hard labor, not exceeding three years, or in the county jail, not less than twelve months, or by fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both a fine and imprison ment. ing, &c,, cattle, SEC. 96. If any person shall wilfully and maliciously kill, Maliciously killmaim or wound any domestic animal of another, he shall, on how punished. conviction, be punished as in the next preceding section is provided. SEC. 97. Every person who shall wilfully, unlawfully and maliciously break, destroy or injure the door or window of any dwelling house, shop, store or other house or building, or sever therefrom or from any gate, fence or enclosure, or any part thereof, any material of which it is formed, or sever from the freehold any produce thereof or anything attached thereto, or shall pull down, injure or destroy any gate, post, railing or fence or any part thereof, or cut down, lop, girdle or otherwise injure or destroy any fruit or ornamental or shade tree, being the property of Malicious trespass house, gate, fence, misdemeanor. upon dwelling &c., deemed a Malicious destruotion, &c. of wood, &c., deemed a misdemeanor. another, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misde meanor. SEC. 98. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously burn, raft or lumber, injure or destroy any pile or raft of wood, plank, boards or other lumber, or any part thereof, or cut loose or set adrift any such raft or part thereof, or shall cut, break, injure, sink, or set adrift any boat, canoe, skiff or other vessel, being the property of another, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. Malicious injury to mill dams, bridges, etc., SEC. 99. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously cut deemed a mido- down, injure, break or destroy any bridge or mill-dam, or other meanor. Removing or al tering land marks dam erected to create hydraulic power, or any embankment necessary to support such dam, or shall wilfully or maliciously make or cause to be made any aperture in such dam or embankment, with intent to destroy or injure the same, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 100. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously ■ misdemeanor. either, First, Remove any monument of stone or other durable material, created for the purpose of designating the corner or any other point in the boundary of any lot or tract of land, or of the Territory, or any legal subdivision thereof: or, Second, Deface or alter the marks upon any tree, post or other monument, made for the purpose of designating any point in such boundary: or, Third, Cut down or remove any tree upon which any such marks shall be made for such purpose, with intent to destroy such marks, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misde Removing or destroying mile demeanor. meanor. SEC. 101. Every person who shall wilfully or maliciously stones, &c., a mis- break, or destroy, or remove any mile post, mile stone, or any guide board, erected by authority of law, on any public highway or turnpike road, or shall wilfully and maliciously deface or alter any such inscription, on any such post, stone or board, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. What shall be deemed malice. Misdemeanors, how punished. SEO. 102. Every punishment and forfeiture imposed on any person maliciously committing any offence prohibited by the provisions of either of the last eight preceding sections, shall equally apply and be in force, whether the offense shall be committed from malice conceived against the owner of the property, in respect to which it shall be committed, or otherwise. SEC. 103. Every person who shall be convicted of a misdemeanor, as prohibited by this act, the punishment for which is not hereinbefore prescribed, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. degree. SEC. 104. Every person who shall forge counterfeit or falsely Forgery in the alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered: First, Any will of real or personal property, or any deed or other instrument, being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any right or interest in real property shall be or purport to be transferred, or in any way changed or affected: or, Second, Any certificate of the acknowledgment or proof of any deed or other instrument, which by law may be recorded, made or purporting to have been made by any court or officer duly authorized to make such certificate or indorsement: or, Third, Any certificate of the proof of any will of real or personal property, which by law may be recorded, made or purporting to have been made by any officer authorized to make such certificate; or, Fourth, Any certificate or endorsement of the filing or recording any such will, deed or other instrument, which by law may be recorded, or purporting to have been made by any officer authorized to make such certificate or indorsement, with intent to defraud, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the first degree. constituting forgery in the first degree. SEC. 105. Every person who shall forge, counterfeit or falsely Additional sets, alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered: First, Any warrant, order, bill, certificate or other public security, issued or purporting to have been issued under the authority of this Territory, by virtue of any law thereof, by which the payment of any money, absolutely or upon a contingency, shall be promised, or the receipt of any money, goods or valuable thing shall be acknowledged, or which shall be or purport to be receivable in payment of the Territory: or, Second, Any certificate of any share or interest in any public stock, created by virtue of any law of this Territory, issued or purporting to have been issued by any public officer, or any bond or other evidence of any debt of this Territory, either absolute or contingent, made or issued, or purporting to have been made or issued by any public officer: or, Third, Any indorsement, assignment or other instrument, transferring or purporting to transfer the right or interest of any holder of such warrant, order, bill, certificate, public security, certificate of stock, bond, evidence of debt or liability, or any person entitled to such right or interest, with intent to defraud this Territory, or any public officer thereof, or any other person, shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the first degree. Forging certain SEO. 106. Every person who shall forge or counterfeit, or seals, forgery in 17 second degree. Altering records and returns, forgery in second degree. Altering entries in records, forgery in second degree. Making false certificates of ac deeds, &c., forgery in second degree. cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, the seal of this Territory, the seal of any court of record, or the seal of any public office authorized by law, the seal of any officer by law entitled to have and use an official seal, or the seal of any body corporate, duly incorporated by or under the laws of this Territory, or who shall make, or forge, or counterfeit any impression purporting to be the impression of any such seal, with intent to defraud, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the second degree. SEC. 107. Every person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely alter, destroy, corrupt or falsify, or procure to be falsely altered, destroyed, corrupted or falsified: First, Any record of any will, conveyance or other instrument, the record or the copy of the record of which, by law, shall be evidence: or, Second, Any record of any judgment or decree in any court of record: or, Third, The return of any officer, court or tribunal to any order, writ or process of any court, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the second degree. SEC. 108. Every person who shall falsely make, forge or alter, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged or altered, any entry in any book of records, or any instrument purporting to be any record or return, specified in the last section, with intent to defraud, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the second degree. SEC. 109. If any person authorized to take the proof or acknowledgment of knowledgement of any conveyance of real estate, or of any instrument which by law may be recorded, shall either: First, Willfully certify that any such conveyance or instrument was acknowledged by any party thereto, when, in truth, no such acknowledgment was made: or, Second, Willfully certify that any conveyance or instrument was proved, when, in fact, no such proof was made: or, Third, Willfully certify falsely in any material matter contained in any certificate, being or purporting to be a certificate of the acknowledgment or proof of any such conveyance or instrument, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of forgery in the second degree. Counterfeiting coin, forgery in second degree. SEC. 110. Every person who shall counterfeit, or cause or procure to be counterfeited, any gold or silver coin, at the time current within this Territory, by law or usage, or in actual use or circulation within this Territory, or shall make or cause to be made any false or counterfeit coin, in imitation or similitude of any gold or silver coin so current, or in actual use or circulation |