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PENAL CODE.

Sec. 463. Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender or other officer, agent, or servant of any railroad company, who is guilty of any willful violation or omission of his duty as such officer, agent or servant by which human life or safety is endangered, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 464. All persons and incorporated companies cutting ice in or upon any waters within the boundaries of this territory, for the purpose of removing such ice for sale, shall surround the cuttings and openings made, with fences of bushes or other guards sufficient to warn all persons of such cuttings and openings.

Sec. 465. Such fences or guards must be erected at or before the time of commencing such cuttings or openings, and must be maintained until ice has again formed in such openings to the thickness of at least six inches.

Sec. 466. Every person who violates the provisions of the last two sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 467. Every person who in any manner obstructs the free navigation of any navigable water course within this territory, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec 468. Every person who willfully exposes himself or another person, being affected with any contagious disease, in any public place or thoroughfare, except in his necessary removal in a manner not dangerous to the public health, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 469. Every person who willfully makes or publishes any false statement, spreads any false rumor, or employs any other false or fraudulent means or device, with intent to affect the market price of any kind of property, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 470. Every editor or proprietor of any newspaper who willfully publishes in such newspaper as true, any statement which he has not good reason to believe to be true, with intent, to increase thereby the sales of copies of such paper, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 471. Every person guilty of secretly loitering a b