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CRIMINAL CODE.
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be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison, not more than five years, nor less than one year.

Penalty for disturbing public worship. Sec. 14. Every person who on the Lord's day, or at any other time, shall willfully interrupt or disturb, any assembly of people, met for worship, within the place of such meeting or out of it, shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

(illegible text) Sec. 15. If any person not being lawfully authorized, shall willfully dig up, disinter, remove, or convey any human body, or the remains thereof, or all knowingly aid in such disinterment, removal, or conveying away, every such offender and every accessory thereof, either before or after the fact, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison, not more than two years, nor less than six months, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.

(illegible text) or defacing tombs, &c. Sec. 16. If any person shall willfully, or with evil intent, destroy, mutilate, deface, or remove any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, or other thing intended for the protection, or for the ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone, or other structure before mentioned, or of any inclosure for the burial of the lead, or shall willfully, and with evil intent, destroy, mutilate, remove, cut, break, or injure any tree, shrub, or plant, placed or being within any such inclosure, the person so offending shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars.

Making roads, &c., (illegible text). Sec. 17. If any person sail open or make any highway or town way, or shall construct any railroad, turnpike, or canal, or any other thing in the nature of a public easement, over, through, in, or upon such part of any enclosure, being the property of a tom, village, or religious society, or of private proprietors, as may be used for the burial of the dead, unless an authority for that purpose shall be specially granted by law or unless the pot of such town, village, or religious society, or private proprietors respectively. shall be first obtained, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, nor less than sixty dollars, or by imprisonment