Burning or injuring rafts.

Setting adrift vessels.

Removing buoys and beacons.

Masking or removing

lights, or exhibiting

608. (§ 141.) Every person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, or destroys any pile or raft of wood, plank, boards, or other lumber, or any part thereof, or cuts loose or sets adrift any such raft or part thereof, or cuts, breaks, injures, sinks, or sets adrift any vessel, the property of another, is punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding six

months.

609. Every person who willfully removes any buoy or beacon, placed in any waters within this State by lawful authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

610. Every person who unlawfully masks, alters, signal or removes any light or signal, or willfully exhibits false lights. any light or signal, with intent to bring any vessel into danger, is punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison not less than three nor more than ten years. NOTE.-Stats. 24 and 25 Vict., Chap. 97, Sec. 47.

Obstructing navigable streams.

Depositing sand, dust, etc., in Humboldt Bay.

Throwing overboard ballast, or otherwise obstructing the

611. Every person who unlawfully obstructs the navigation of any navigable stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1850, p. 188, Sec. 1.

612. Every person who throws, deposits, or permits another in his employ to throw or deposit, any sawdust, slabs, or refuse lumber, in any place where it may be carried or fall into the waters of Humboldt Bay, without first having constructed piers, bulkheads, dams, or other contrivances, approved by the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County, to prevent the same from escaping into the channels of such bay, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1857, p. 66, Secs. 1, 2.

613. Every person who, within the anchorage of navigation any port, harbor, or cove of this State, into which ves

of any

harbor, etc. sels may enter for the purpose of receiving or dis

charging cargo, throws overboard from any vessel the ballast, or any part thereof, or who otherwise places or causes to be placed in such port, harbor, or cove, any obstructions to the navigation thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1861, p. 224, Sec. 3; 1864, p. 138.

vesssels to

614. Every person mooring any vessel to or hang- Mooring ing on with a vessel to any buoy or beacon, placed by buoys. competent authority in any navigable waters of this State, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1861, p. 224, Sec. 2.

signals,

erected in

615. Every person who willfully injures, defaces, Injuries to or removes any signal, monument, building, or appur- ments, etc., tenance thereto, placed, erected, or used by persons United engaged in the United States Coast Survey, is guilty Coast of a misdemeanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1852, p. 148, Sec. 6.

States

Survey.

down

or tearing
notices,
etc., before
expiration
of time for

which they
remain set

were to

up.

616. Every person who intentionally defaces, oblit- Destroying erates, tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript, or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this State, or any proclamation, advertisement, or notification set up at any place in this State, by authority of any law of the United States or of this State, or by order of any Court, before the expiration of the time for which the same was to remain set up, is punishable by fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not more than one month.

NOTE.-Rep. Cod. Laws of Cal., 1868, Crimes and
Punishment Act, Sec. 161.

Injuring or

destroying instrument

617. Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, written the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison for not less than one nor more than five years.

Opening or publishing sealed letters.

Disclosing contents of telegraphic message.

Altering telegraphic messages.

Opening sealed

envelops

NOTE.-Founded upon Sec. 68 of the Crimes and Punishment Act; Stats. 1850, p. 229; Nixon's Dig. Laws N. J., p. 188, Sec. 69. For "instruments" such as described in the text, see Sec. 470, ante, and elsewhere in this Code.

618. (§ 111.) Every person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it is addressed, and every person who, without the like authority, publishes any of the contents of such letter, knowing the same to have been unlawfully opened, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

619. Every person who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, is punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison not exceeding five years, or in the County Jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprison

ment.

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.

NOTE.-Stats. 1862, p. 288, Sec. 1.

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, willdispatches. fully opens any sealed envelop inclosing a telegraphic

containing 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 619.

Injuring

works of

improve

ments in

town, or

622. Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, disfigures, or destroys any monu- art or ment, 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 misde

meanor.

village.

works of

etc., in

libraries.

623. Every person who maliciously cuts, tears, de- Destroying faces, breaks, or injures any book, map, chart, picture, literature, engraving, statue, coin, model, apparatus, or other public 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 misde

meanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1861, p. 533, Secs. 1, 2.

Breaking ing gas or pipes, etc.

or obstruct

water

water from

works after

they have

been

closed.

625. Every person who, with intent to defraud or Drawing injure, opens or causes to be opened, or draws water from any stopcock 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 misde

meanor.

NOTE.-Stats. 1861, p. 533, Sec. 3. Many of the preceding sections are similar in language or import and intent with the New York Penal Code on the same subject, pp. 258-266.

Destruction of grouse, duck, etc.,

when

CHAPTER I.

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

SECTION 626. Destruction of grouse, duck, etc., when prohibited.

627. Same.

628. Destruction of elk, etc., when prohibited.

629. Having game in possession during the time that killing

thereof is prohibited.

630. Use of phosphorus on land in certain counties pro

hibited.

631. Taking trout, when prohibited.

632. Same.

633. Taking trout by nets, etc., prohibited.

634. Taking salmon, when prohibited.

635. Use of poisonous or explosive substances in fishing pro

hibited.

636. California Indians exempted from certain penalties.

637. Fishways and ladders, penalties for not keeping.

626. Every person who, in the Counties of San Bernardino or Los Angeles, between the first day of Prohibited. August of any year and the first day of April of the next year, or who in any other of the counties of this State, except the Counties of Lassen, Plumas, and Sierra, between the fifteeth day of March and the fif teenth day of September in each year, takes, kills, or destroys quail, partridges, or grouse, mallard, wood, teal, spoonbill, or any kind of broadbill ducks, is guilty of a misdemeanor.