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1558. Use in Avertising-Any person or persons, corporation or company who shall use the flag or the coat of arms of the United States, or any pattern, imitation or representation thereof, either by printing thereon, or attaching thereto, any advertisement or device for the purpose of gain or profit, or as a trademark or lavel, shall be guilty of misdemeanor. (S. L. 1919, 113)

1559. Mutilating-Any person who shall tear down, mutilate, deface, defile, defy, treat with indignity, or wantonly destroy the flag or coat of arms of the United States of America, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (S. L. 1919, 113)

1560. Penalty-Any person, corporation or company violating any provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. (S. L. 1919, 113)

1561. Display of Emblems-Any person in this State, who shall carry or cause to be carried, or publicly display any red flag or other emblem or banner, indicating disloyalty to the government of the United States or a belief in anarchy or other political doctrines or belief, whose objects are either the disruption or destruction of organized government, or the defiance of the laws of the United States, or of the State of Oklahoma, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitenitary of the State of Oklahoma for a term not exceeding ten (10) years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by both such imprisonment and fine. (S. L. 1919, 133)

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1562. Employment of Relatives-It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to appoint or vote for the appointment of any person related to him by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any clerkship, office, position, employment or duty in any department of the State, district, county, city, or municipal government of which such executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer is a member, when the salary, wages, pay or compensation of such appointee is to be paid out of the public funds or fees of such office. (2235 R. L. 1910)

A person related within the third degree is not prohibited from doing odd jobs. "Appointment," "Employment," "Such ineligible person" defined. Peddell v. State, 14 Okla. Cr. 199, 170 P. 273.

1563. Unlawful to Pay Salary-It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer mentioned in the preceding section to draw or authorize the drawing of any warrant, or authority for the payment out of any public fund of the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such ineligible person, and it shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to pay out of any public funds in his custody or under his control the salary, wages, pay or compensation of any such ineligible person. (2236 R. L. 1910)

1564. Unlawful Appointment-It shall be unlawful for any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer to appoint and furnish employment for any person whose services are to be rendered under his direction and control and paid for out of the public funds, and who is related by either blood or marriage within the third degree to any other executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer when such appointment is made in part consideration that such other officer shall appoint and furnish employment to any one so related to the officer making such appointment. (2237 R. L. 1910)

1565. Relatives Cannot Hold Office-Any person related within the third degree by affinity or consanguinity to any member of either the legislative, judicial or executive branch. of the State government shall not be eligible to hold any clerkship, office, position, government or duty in such branch of the State government. (2238 R. L. 1910)

1566. Penalty-Any executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer who shall violate any provision of this article shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor involving officia! misconduct, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $1,000, and shall forfeit his office. (2239. R. L. 1910)

1567. Violation Cause of Removal-Any person guilty of violating the provisions of this article shall, independently of or in addition to any criminal prosecution that may be instituted, be removed from office according to the mode of trial and removal prescribed in the Constitution and laws of this State. (2240 R. L. 1910)

1568. Officer Affected-Under the designation executive, legislative, ministerial or judicial officer, as mentioned herein, are included the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Corporation Commissioners, all the heads of the departments of the State government, judges of all the courts of this State, mayors, clerks, councilmen, trustees, commissioners, and other officers of all incorporated cities and towns, public school trustees, officers and boards of managers of the State University and its several branches, State normals, the penitentiaries and eleemosynary institutions, members of the commissioners' court, and all other officials of the State, district, county, cities or other municipal subdivisions of the State. (2241 R. L. 1910)

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1569. Pandering Defined-Any person who shall procure a female inmate for a house of prostitution, or who, by promise, threats, violence, or any device or scheme shall cause, induce, persuade or encourage a female person to become an inmate of a house of prostitution; or shall procure a place as inmate in a house of prostitution for a female person; or who shall by promise, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, cause, induce, persuade or encourage an inmate of a house of prostitution to remain therein as such inmate; or who shall, by fraud, or artifice, or by duress of person or goods, or by abuse of any position of confidence or authority, procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame, or to enter any place in which prostitution is encouraged or allowed within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, or who shall procure any female person, who has not previously practiced prostitution to become an inmate of a house of illfame within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution; or shall receive or give or agree to receive or give any money or thing of value for procuring or attempting to procure any female person to become an inmate of a house of ill-fame within this State, or to come into this State or leave this State for the purpose of prostitution, shall be guilty of pandering, and upon conviction for any offense under this article shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a period of not less than two years nor more than twenty years, and by a fine of not less than $300 and not to exceed $1,000 dollars. (2425 R. L. 1910)

Not sufficient to plead general terms of statute. Abrams v. State, 13 Okla. Cr. 11, 161 P. 331.

Act construed. Evidence sufficient to convict. Edmonous v. State, 9 Okla. Cr. 603, 132 P. 923.

1570. Part of Offense Outside of State-It shall not be a defense to a prosecution for any of the acts prohibited in the foregoing section that any part of such act or acts shall have been committed outside this State. (2426 R. L. 1910)

1571. Injured Party as Witness-Any such female person, referred to in the foregoing sections shall be a competent witness in any prosecution under this article, to testify for or against the accused as to any transaction or as to any conversation with the accused or by him with another person or persons in her presence, notwithstanding the fact of her having married the accused before or after the violation of any of the provisions of this article, whether called as witness during the existence of the marriage or after its dissolution. (2427 R. L. 1910)

1572. Marriage no Defense-The act or state of marriage shall not be a defense to any violation of this article. (2428 R. L. 1910)

1573. Restraining Female in House of Prostitution-Whoever shall by any means keep, hold, detain or restrain against her will, any female person in a house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed; or whoever shall, directly or indirectly keep, hold, detain or restrain or attempt to keep, hold, detain or restrain, in any house of prostitution or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, any female person by any means for the purpose of compelling such female person, directly or indirectly to pay, liquidate or cancel any debt, dues or obligations incurred or said to have been incurred by such female person, shall upon conviction be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than two years nor more than twenty years, and by a fine of not less than $300, and not more than $1,000. (2429 R. L. 1910)

1574. Allowing Offense on Premises-Any owner, proprietor, keeper, manager, conductor or other person who knowingly permits or suffers the violation of any provision of this article, in any house, building, room, tent, lot, or premises under his control or of which he has possession, upon conviction shall be punished for the first offense by imprisonment within the county jail for a period of not less than six months nor more than one year, and by a fine of not more than $300, and upon conviction for any subsequent offense under this article shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than ten years. (2430 R. L. 1910)

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