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PENAL CODE.

210. Permitting attorney's name to be used.

211. In what cases lawful.

212. Fraudulent pretenses relative to birth of infant.

213. Substituting one child for another.

214. Importing foreign convicts.

215. Omission of duty by public officer.

216. Commission of prohibited act.

217. Disclosing fact of indictment having been found

218. Grand juror disclosing what transpired before the grand jury.

219. Instituting suit in false name.

220. Maliciously procuring search warrant.

221. Unauthorized communications with convict in territorial prison.

222. Neglect to return names of constables.

223. False certificate by public officers.

Sec. 171. Every sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer, who either:

1. Mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases, obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his office; or

2. Fraudulenlty appropriates to his own use or to the use of another person, or secretes with intent to appropriate to such use, any money, evidence of debt or other property entrusted to him in virtue of his office,

Is guilty of felony.

Sec. 172. Every sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, coņstable, or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer, who either :

1. Allows any person lawfully held by him in custody to escape or go at large, except as may be permitted by law; or,

2. Receives any gratuity or reward, or any security er promise of one, to procure, assist, connive at or permit any prisoner in his custody to escape, whether such escape is attempted or not; or,

3. Commits any unlawful act tending to hinder justice,

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.