OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY.
If person at late hours, creates disturbance. Penalty.Sect. 111. If any person, at late and unusual hours of the night time, maliciously or wilfully disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or family, by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous and offensive carriage, threatening, traducing, quarrelling, challenging to fight, or fighting, every person convicted thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two months.
If person do not disperse, after being commanded by proper officer. Penalty.Sect. 112. If two or more persons assemble for the purpose of disturbing the public peace, or committing any unlawful act, and do not disperse on being desired or commanded so to do, by a judge, justice of the peace, sheriff, coroner, constable, or other public officer, persons so offending shall, on conviction, be severally fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding one month.
If persons fight in public place. Penalty.Sect. 113. If two or more persons shall, by agreement, fight in a public place to the terror of the citizens of this territory, the persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of an affray.
Unlawful assemblage. Penalty for.Sect. 114. If two or more persons shall assemble together to do an unlawful act, and separate without doing or advancing toward it, such persons shall be deemed guilty of an unlawful assemblage, and upon conviction thereof, be severally fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three months.
Making advances to quarrel. Penalty.Sect. 115. If two or more persons shall meet to do an unlawful act, upon a common cause of quarrel, and make advances toward it, they shall be deemed guilty of a rout, and, on conviction, shall be severally fined in a sum not exceeding seventy dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding four months.
Rioting. Penalty for.Sect. 116. If two or more persons actually do an unlawful act, with force or violence, against the person or property of another, with or without a common cause of quarrel, or even do a lawful act in a violent and tumultuous manner, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a riot, and on conviction, shall severally be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months.
