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PENAL CODE.
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other material, erected for the purpose of designating any point in the boundary of any lot or tract of land; or,

2. Maliciously defaces.or alters the marks upon any tree, post or other monument, made for the purpose of designating any point, course or line in any such boundary; or,

3. Maliciously cuts down or removes any tree upon which any such marks have beer: made for such purpose, with intent to destroy such marks,

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec 710. Every person who, without authority of law, interferes with any pier, booms or lams, lawfully erected or maintains upon any waters within this territory, or hoists any gate in or about said dams, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 711. Every person who maliciously destroys any dam or structure erected to create hydraulic power, or any embankment necessary for the support thereof, or maliciously makes, or causes to be made, any aperture in such dam or embankment, with intent to destroy the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 712. Every person who maliciously draws up or removes, or cuts or otherwise injures, any piles fixed in the ground and used for securing any bank or dam of any river, canal, drain, aqueduct, marsh, reservoir, pool, port, dock, quay, jetty or lock, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years and not less than two, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 713. Every person who willfully removes any buoy placed in the Missouri river by any lawful authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 714. Every person who unlawfully masks, alters or removes any light or signal, or willfully exhibits any false light or signal, with intent to bring any locomotive or any railway car or train of cars into danger, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years, and not less than three years.