or by both fine.and imprisonment. [Approved April 15th, 1880.]

620. Every person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic message to the injury of another, is punishable as provided in the preceding section.

621. Every person not connected with any telegraph office who, without the authority or consent of the person to whom the same may be directed, willfully opens any sealed envelope inclosing a telegraphic message and addressed to any other person, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or who fraudulently represents any other person and thereby procures to be delivered to himself any telegraphic message addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy, or detain the same from the person or persons entitled to receive such message, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and nineteen.

622. Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, disfigures, or destroys any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement within the limits of any village, town, or city, or any shade tree or ornamental plant growing therein, whether situated upon private ground or on any street, sidewalk, or public park or place, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

623. Every person who maliciously cuts, tears, defaces, breaks, or injures any book, map, chart, picture, engraving, statue, coin, model, apparatus, or other work of literature, art, or mechanics, or object of curiosity, deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair, or exhibition, is guilty of felony.

624. Every person who willfully breaks, digs up, obstructs, or injures any pipe or main for conducting gas or water, or any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or water, or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

625. Every person who, with intent to defraud or injure, opens or causes to be opened, or draws water from any stop-cock or faucet by which the flow of water is controlled, after having been notified that the same has been closed or shut for specific cause, by order of competent authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

TITLE XV.

Miscellaneous Crimes.

CHAP. I. VIOLATION OF THE LAWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME AND FISH, §§ 626-37.

II. OF OTHER AND MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES, §§ 654-78.

CHAPTER I.

VIOLATION OF THE LAWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF
GAME AND FISH.

§ 626. Destruction of grouse, ducks, etc., when prohibited.

§ 635.

§ 636.

Use of explosive substances in fishing prohibited.
Permanent contrivances for catching.

$637. Fishways and ladders, penalties for not keeping.

626. Every person who, in the State of California, between the first day of March and the tenth day of Septem-472 ber in each year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys quail, partridges, or grouse, or rail, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in any of the counties of this State, at any time takes, gathers, or destroys the eggs of any quail, partridge, or grouse, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, in this State, between the first day of January and the first day of June in cach year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys doves, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who, between the fifteenth day of December in each year and the first day of July in the following year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys any male antelope, deer, or buck, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person in the State of California who has in his possession any hides or any skins of any deer, elk, antelope, or mountain sheep, killed between the fifteenth day of December and the first day of July, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person

who shall at any time in the State of California, hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy any female antelope, elk, mountain sheep, female deer, or doe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall at any time hunt, pursue, take, kill, or destroy any spotted fawn, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall take, kill, or destroy any of the animals mentioned in this section at any time, unless the carcass of such animal is used or preserved by the person taking or slaying it, or is sold for food, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who shall buy, sell, offer or expose for sale, transport, or have in his possession, any deer or deerskin or hide from which evidence of sex has been removed, or any of the aforesaid game, at a time when it is unlawful to kill the same, as provided by this and subsequent sections, is guilty of a misdemeanor. [In effect March 24th, 1887.]

627. Section number six hundred and twenty-seven of the Penal Code of California is hereby repealed. [Approved March 9th, 1883. In effect July 1st, 1883.]

628. Section number six hundred and twenty-eight of the Penal Code of California is hereby repealed. [Approved March 9th, 1883. In effect July 1st, 1883.]

629. Section number six hundred and twenty-nine of the Penal Code of California is hereby repealed. [Ap proved March 9th, 1883. In effect July 1st, 1883.]

630. Every person who, in the counties of Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Santa Cruz, or San Mateo, uses or distributes phosphorus upon any land or ground between the first day of March and the first day of November in any year, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

631. Every person who shall at any time net or pound any quail, partridge, or grouse, and every person who shall sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale or have in his possession, any quail, partridge, or grouse that has been snared, captured, or taken in or by any means of any net or pound, is guilty of a misdemeanor.