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PENAL CODE.
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attack, bite, wound or worry another, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 701. Every person who keeps any house, pit or other place to be used in permitting any fight between animals or in any other violation of the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 702. Every person who, within any public cemetery or burying ground, wound 3 or traps any bird or destroys any bird's nest or removes any eggs or young birds from any nest; and every person who buys or sells, or offers or keeps for sale, any bird which has been killed or trapped in violation of this section, is punishable by a fine of five dollars for each offense, recoverable by a civil action in any justices court within the county where the offense is committed, brought in the name of any person making a complaint. Such fine shall be applied to the support of common schools of such county.

Sec. 703. Every person who willfully burns any building not the object of arson, any stack of grain of any kind, or of hay, any growing or standing grain, grass, trees or fence, not the property of such person, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding four years and not less than one year, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.

Sec. 704. Every person who willfully breaks, defaces or otherwise injures any house of worship, or any part thereof, or any appurtenance thereto, or any book, furniture, ornament, musical instrument, article of silver or plated ware, or other chattel kept therein for use in connection with religious wore ship, is guilty of felony.

Sec. 705. Every person who maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or other explosive substance, destroys, throws down or injures the whole or any part of any building, by means of which the life or safety of any human being is endangered, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years, and not less than three.

Sec. 706. Every person who places in, upon, under, against or near to any building, any gunpowder or other explosive substance, with intent to destroy, throw down or injure the