authorize companies owning any connecting railroads in the State of Pennsylvania to enter into any leases and contracts with each other in respect to the use, management, and working of their several railroads: Provided, That the company so contracting for or leasing any such railroad may have the right to fix the tolls thereon, but not at a higher rate than is authorized by the charter of either of the said railroad companies.

AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE, REVISE, AND AMEND THE PENAL LAWS OF THIS COMMONWEALTH.

Approved 31st March, 1860. (P. L., 1860, pages 391, &c.)

SECTION 29. If any person shall be maimed, or otherwise injured in person, or injured in property, through or by reason of the wanton and furious driving or racing, or by reason of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the driver of any public stage, mail coach, coachee, carriage, or car employed in the conveyance of passengers; or through or by reason of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of any engineer or conductor of any locomotive-engine or train of railroad cars or carriages; or any captain or other officer of any steamboat employed in the conveyance of passengers, or of goods, wares, merchandise, or produce of any description, such driver, engineer, conductor, captain, or officer, shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement, or by simple imprisonment, not exceeding five years: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not interfere with the civil remedies against the proprietors and others to which the injured party may by law be now entitled. SEC. 66. It shall not be lawful for any councilman, burgess, trustee, manager or director of any corporation, municipality, or public institution, to be at the same time a treasurer, secretary, or other officer, subordinate to the president and directors, who shall receive a salary therefrom, or be the surety of such officer, nor shall any member of any corporation or public institution, or any officer or agent thereof, be in anywise

interested in any contract for the sale or furnishing of any supplies, or materials to be furnished to, or for the use of any corporation, municipality, or public institution of which he shall be a member or officer, or for which he shall be an agent, nor directly nor indirectly interested therein, nor receive any reward or gratuity from any person interested in such contract or sale; and any person violating these provisions or either of them, shall forfeit his membership in such corporation, municipality, or institution, and his office or appointment thereunder, and shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars: Provided, That nothing in this section contained, shall prevent a vice-president of any bank from being a director of such bank, or of receiving a salary as vice-president.

SEC. 67. Any person who shall contract for the sale, or sell any supplies or materials as aforesaid, and shall cause to be interested in any such contract or sale, any member, officer, or agent of any corporation, municipality, or institution, or give or offer to give any such person any reward or gratuity to influence him or them in the discharge of their official duties, shall not be capable of recovering anything upon any contract or sale, in relation to which he may have so practiced or attempted to practice corruptly, but the same shall be void, and such party shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 108. If any person, being a bailee of any property, shall fraudulently take or convert the same to his own use, or to the use of any other person, except the owner thereof, although he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment, he shall be guilty of larceny, and punished as is provided in cases of larceny of like property.

SEC. 122. Nothing herein contained shall affect any remedy at law or in equity, which any party aggrieved might have heretofore had, nor affect or prejudice any agreement entered into, or security given, by any trustee, having for its object the restoration or repayment of any trust property misappropriated.

SEC. 123. No such trustee, banker, merchant, broker, attorney, agent, director, officer, or member as aforesaid, shall be

enabled or entitled to refuse to make a full and complete discovery by answer to any bill in equity, or to answer any question or interrogatory in any civil proceeding in any court of law or equity, but no answer to any such bill, question, or interrogatory, shall be admissible in evidence against such person charged with any of the said misdemeanors.

SEC. 126. If any person engaged in carrying or transporting coal, iron, lumber, or other articles of merchandise or property whatsoever within this Commonwealth, shall fraudulently sell or dispose of or pledge the same, or any part thereof, without the consent of the owner thereof, such offense shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and the offender shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year; or if any person shall knowingly buy and receive the said merchandise, knowing the same to have been sold, disposed of, or pledged fraudulently, he shall, on conviction, be sentenced to the like punishment.

SEC. 138. If any person shall willfully and maliciously burn, or cause to be burned, set fire to, or attempt to set fire to, with intent to burn, or aid, counsel, procure, or consent to the burning or setting fire to, of any barn, stable, or other building of another not parcel of the dwelling-house, or any shop, storehouse or warehouse, malthouse, mill, or other building of another, or any barrack, rick, or stack of grain, hay, fodder, or bark, piles of wood, boards or other lumber, or any ship, boat, or other vessel of another lying within any county in this State, or any wooden bridge within the same, or State capitol or adjoining offices, or any church, meeting-house, court-house, jail, or other public building belonging to this Commonwealth, or to any city or county thereof, or to any body corporate or religious society whatever, the person offending shall, on conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 142. If any person shall willfully and maliciously put, place, cast, or throw upon or across any railroad any wood, stone, or other matter or thing; or shall willfully and mali

ciously take up, remove, or displace any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railroad; or shall willfully and maliciously turn, move, or divert any switch or other machinery belonging to any railroad; or shall willfully and maliciously make or show, hide, or remove any signal or light upon or near any railroad; or shall willfully and maliciously do, or cause to be done, any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to obstruct, upset, overthrow, injure, or destroy any tender, carriage, car, or truck used on such railroad, or to endanger the safety of any person traveling or being upon such railroad, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement, at labor, not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 143. If any person shall willfully and maliciously cast, throw, or cause to fall or strike against, into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, car, or truck used upon any railroad, any wood or stone or other matter or thing, with intent to endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, car, or truck, every such offender shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment not exceeding three years.

SEC. 147. If any person shall unlawfully and maliciously break, injure, or otherwise destroy or damage any part of any locomotive or stationary engine, inclined plane, engine-house, station, or depot, bridge, culvert, trestle-work, or other building or structure belonging to any railroad, or any other part of such railroad; or shall wantonly and maliciously derange or displace the fixtures or machinery of any locomotive or stationary engine used or employed on any railroad; or shall willfully and maliciously destroy or injure any fence or wall, cross-road passing over or under such railroad; or shall unlawfully and maliciously break, injure, or otherwise destroy or damage any of the posts, wires, or other materials or fixtures employed in the construction and use in any line of an electrical telegraph, or shall willfully and maliciously interfere

with such structure so erected, or in any way attempt to lead from its uses or make use of the electrical current, or any portion thereof, properly belonging to and in use, or in readiness to be made use of, for the purpose of communicating telegraphically from one station of a telegraph company to another established station of the same, or a connecting telegraph line; or shall unlawfully and maliciously break, injure, or otherwise destroy or damage any bridge, river, or meadow bank or mill-dam; or willfully and maliciously take down, injure, remove, or in any manner damage or destroy any flag, flag-staff, beacon, buoy, or other way or water marks which now are or hereafter may be put, erected, or placed, by lawful authority, near or in any streams that are or may be declared public highways; or shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, or otherwise destroy any lead, tin, copper, or iron spout affixed to any house or other building, public or private; or shall unlawfully and maliciously daub, paint, or otherwise deface any dwelling-house, such offender shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court.

A SUPPLEMENT TO AN ACT ENTITLED “AN ACT RELATIVE TO BONDS ISSUED BY THE COUNTY OF ALLEGHENY, FOR STOCK IN RAILROAD COMPANIES," APPROVED THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF APRIL, ANNO DOMINI ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTYEIGHT.

Approved 2d April, 1860. (P. L., 1860, page 589.)

SECTION 1. That it shall and may be lawful for any executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees holding bonds of the said county of Allegheny, such as are mentioned in the act to which this is a supplement, to exchange the same for stock in the several and respective railroad companies, in the manner mentioned in the said act, and to hold or dispose of the said stock so taken in exchange, without responsibility on their