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PENAL CODE.
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Sec. 691. Every person who removes or injures any mile board, mile stone or guide post, or any inscription on such, erected upon any highway, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 695. Every person who maliciously takes down, removes, injures or obstructs any line of telegraph or any part thereof, or appurtenance or apparatus therewith connected, or severs any wire thereof, or fraudulently intercepts any message in its passage over such wire, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

TITLE XVI.

OF MALICIOUS MISCHICT.

Section 696 Malicious mischief, in general, defined.

697. Specifications in following section, not restrictive of last section.

698. Poisoning cattle.

699. Killing, maiming or torturing animals.

700. Instigating lights between animals.

701. Keeping houses, pits, &c., for fights between animals.

702. Wowding or trapping birds, or destroying bird's nests in cemeteries.

703. Burning buildings and other property not the subject of arson.

704. Breaking or injuring property in houses of worship

705. Using gunpowder, &c., in destroying or injuring any building:

766. Endangering human life by placing gunpowder. &c., near building.

707. Malicious injuries to freeholds.

708. Injuries to standing crops, &c.

709. Removing, defacing or altering land marks.

710. Interlering with piers, dans, &c.

711. Destroying or injuring dams, &c.

712. Removing or injuring piles used in river embankments, &c.

713. Removing any water gage.