Page:1864-65 Territory of Dakota Session Laws.pdf/173

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PENAL CODE.
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Sec. 603. If any carrier or other person having under his control personal property for the purpose of transportation for hire, fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose inconsistent with the safekeeping of such property and its transportation according to his trust, he is guilty of embezzlement, whether he has broken the package in which such property is contained, or has otherwise separated the items thereof, or not.

Sec. 604. If any person, being a trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, assignee in trust, executor, administrator or collector, or being otherwise entrusted with or having in his control property for the use of any other person, or for any public or benevolent purpose, fraudulently appropriates it to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of his trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to such use or purpose, he is guilty of embezzlement.

Sec. 605. If any person being entrusted with any property as bailee, or with any power of attorney for the sale or transfer thereof, fraudulently converts the same or the proceeds thereof to his own use, or secretes it or them with a fraudulent intent to convert to his own use, he is guilty of embezzlement, whether he has broken the package or otherwise determined the bailment or not.

Sec. 606, If any clerk or servant of any private person or copartnership or corporation (except apprentices and persons within the age of eighteen years) fraudulently appropriates to his own use, or secretes with a fraudulent intent to appropriate to his own use, any property of any other person which has come into his control or care by virtue of his employment as such clerk or servant, he is guilty of embezzlement.

Sec. 607. A distinct act of taking is not necessary to constitute embezzlement; but any fraudulent appropriation, conversion or use of the property, coming within the above prohibitions, is sufficient.

Sec. 608. Any evidence of debt, negotiable by delivery only, and actually executed, is equally the subject of embezzlement

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