Sec. 15. If any officer authorized to serve process, shall willfully and corruptly refuse to execute any lawful process to him directed, and requiring him to apprehend or confine any person convicted or charged with an offense, or shall willfully and corruptly omit or delay to execute such process whereby such person shall escape, and go at large, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail, not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.
Sec. 16. If any person being required in the name of the United States, or of the territory of Dakota, by any sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, or constable, shall neglect or refuse to assist them in the execution of their office, in any criminal case, or in the preservation of the peace, or the apprehending or securing of any person for a breach of the peace, or in any case of escape or rescue of persons arrested upon civil process, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Sec. 17. If any justice of the peace upon view of any breach of the peace, or any other offense proper for his cognizance, shall require any person to apprehend and bring before him the offender, every person so required who shall refuse or neglect to obey such justice, shall be punished in the same manner as is provided in the next preceding section, for refusing assistance to a sheriff'; and no person to whom such justice shall be known, or shall declare himseif to be a justice of the peace, shall lo permitted to plead any excuse on pretence of ignorance of his office.
Sec. 18. If any person shall falsely assume or pretend to be a justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, or constable, ant shall take upon himself to act as such, to require any person to ail or assist him in any matter pertaining to the duty of a justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, coroner, or constable, he shall lic punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
Sec. 19. Every person who shall in any manner disguise himself with intent to obstruct the due execution of the law, or with intent to intimidate, hinder, or interrupt any officer or person in the legal performance of his duty, or the exercise of his rights under the laws of the United States, or