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PENAL CODE.
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accepts or promises to accept any bribe as an inducement permitting water to be drawn from any such canal, feeder or reservoir in violation of the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 517. Every person who gives, or offers or promises to give to any officer or person mentioned in the last section, any bribe as an inducement to him to permit any water to be drawn from any canal, feeder or reservoir in violation of section 515, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 518. Every person who willfully burns, destroys, or injures any public building or improvement this territory, is puishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years.

Sec. 519. Every person who enters any fort, magazine, arsenal, armory, arsenal yard or encampment, and seizes or takes away any arms, amunition, military stores or supplies belonging to the people of this territory and every person who enters any such place with intent so to do, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

Sec. 520. Every person, who, in making any statement, oral or written, which is required or authorized by law to be made as the basis of imposing any tax or assessment, or of an application to reduce any tax or assessment, willfully states any material matter which he knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

CHAPTER I.

ARSON.

Section 521. Arson defined.

522. Building defined.

523. Inhabited building defined.

524. Night time defined.

525. Burning defined.

526. Ownership of the building.

527. Variance in proof of ownership

528. What constitutes malice.