proved 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 613. Throwing overboard ballast, or obstructing navigation. Every person who, within the anchorage of any port, harbor, or cove of this state, into which vessels may enter for the purpose of receiving or discharging 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 614. Mooring vessels to buoys. Every person mooring any vessel to or hanging on with a vessel to any buoy or beacon, placed by competent authority in any navigable waters of this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Act for protection of buoys and beacons: See post, Appendix, title Buoys and Beacons. § 615. Injuries to signals, etc., in United States survey. Every person who willfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenances thereto, placed, erected, or used by persons engaged in the United States coast survey, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 616. Destroying or tearing down notices, etc. Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 617. Injuring or destroying written instrument. Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 618. Opening or publishing sealed letters. 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 619. Disclosing contents of telegraphic or telephonic message. Every person who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic or telephonic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court, 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 imprisonment. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1880, 38; 1905, 690. § 620. Altering telegraphic or telephonic messages. Ev. ery person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic or telephonic message to the injury of another, is punishable as provided in the preceding section. En. February 14, 1872. § 621. Opening telegraphic or telephonic messages. Every person not connected with any telegraph or telephone 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 or telephonic message addressed to any other person, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or who fraudulently represents another person and thereby procures to be delivered to himself any telegraphic or telephonic message addressed to such other person, with the intent to use, destroy, or detain the same from the person entitled to receive such message, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and nineteen. En. February 14, 1872. § 622. Injuring works of art or improvements. Every person, not the owner thereof, who willfully injures, dis figures, 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 any street, sidewalk, or public park or place, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 623. Destroying books, etc., in public libraries. 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, mechanics, or object of curiosity, deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair, or exhibition, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1901, 99. or § 6232. Detaining books, etc., from public libraries. whoever willfully detains any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to any public or incorporated library, reading-room, museum other educational institution, for thirty days after notice in writing to return the same, given after the expiration of the time which by the rules of such institution such article or other property may be kept, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly. En. Stats. 1899, 97. § 624. Breaking or obstructing water-pipes, etc. 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. En. February 14, 1872. § 625. Drawing water from works after they have been closed. Every person who, with intent to defraud or 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 misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Cal. Rep. Cit. 77, 32. § 625a. Unlawful interference with fire-alarm apparatus; penalty. Any person who willfully and maliciously tampers with, molests, injures, or breaks any public fire-alarm apparatus, wire, or signal, or willfully and maliciously sends, gives, transmits, or sounds any false alarm of fire, by means of any public fire-alarm system or signal, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding one year, or by a fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. En. 1903, 137. Chapter I. TITLE XV. MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES. Violation of the Laws for the Preservation of II. Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses, §§ 638-654. CHAPTER I. VIOLATION OF THE LAWS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF GAME AND FISH. § 626. Quail, partridge, wild duck, rail, curlew, ibis, plover, Wilson snipes, mountain quail, grouse, sage hen, closed season. § 626a. Doves. § 626b. Nests or eggs. 626c. Swan, pheasants, bobwhites, quail, etc. 626d. Limit of bag. 626e. Female deer, spotted fawn, antelope, etc. 626f. Deer. 626g. Tree squirrels. 626h. Sale or possession of deer pelts. 6261. Limit of deer that may be killed in one season. 626j. Running or trailing deer during close season. 626k. Sale of certain game prohibited. 6261. Live animals or birds for scientific purposes or propagation. 626m. Night-time hunting. 627. Trespass upon inclosed or cultivated grounds a misdemeanor. 627a. Unlawful carrying of deer and other game. 627b. Limit as to shipment of certain game. 627c. Transporting out of the state. (Repealed.) 627d. Penalty. (Repealed.) 628. Lobster or crawfish. 628a. Striped bass. 628b. Black bass. 628c. Young fish of any species; fish in pond or reservoir belonging to state; penalty. 628d. Fine or imprisonment; disposition of fines. 629. Screen over millrace, pipe, etc.; penalty; disposition of fines. 630. Use of phosphorus on land in certain counties prohibited. (Re pealed.) 631. Net, pound, cage, trap, etc., not to be used. 631a. Penalty for violation. 631b. Disposition of moneys from fines. 631c. Penalty for violation. 632. Trout, steelhead trout; limit of catch; penalty; disposition of fines. 632a. Shipment of trout; penalty; disposition of fines. 632b. Only hook and line to be used in streams where U. S. hatchery is located. (Repealed.) § 633. Trout, sale, taking or possession of. (Repealed.) 634. § 635. Taking, sale or possession of salmon, when prohibited. § 636. Setting net, trap, etc., for fish. § 636a. Nets, seines, etc., prohibited. 637. Fish commissioners to examine dams. Fishways. § 637a. Killing of birds other than game; meadow lark, etc.; exceptions; certain birds not included. § 626. Quail, partridge, wild duck, rail, curlew, ibis, plover, Wilson snipes, mountain quail, grouse, sage hen. Closed season. Every person, who, between the fifteenth day of February and the fifteenth day of October of any year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys, or has in his possession, whether taken or killed, in the State of California, or shipped into the state from any other state, territory, or foreign country, any valley quail, or partridge, or any kind of wild duck, or any rail, or any curlew, ibis, plover, or other shore birds (Limicolae); or who, between the first day of April and the fifteenth day of October of any year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys, or has in his possession, any Wilson snipe; or who, between the fifteenth day of February and the first day of September of any year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills, or destroys, or has in his possession, whether taken or killed in the State of California, or shipped into the state from any other state, territory, or foreign country, any mountain quail, grouse, or sage hen, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1875-6, 113; 1877-8, 119; 1880, 41; 1883, 80; 1887, 236; 1891, 472; 1893, 278; 1895, 256; 1897, 90; 1901, 819; 1903, 2; 1905, 255. Cal. Rep. Cit. 103, 479; 136, 528. Acts for the protection of game: See post, Appendix, title Game Laws. § 626a. Doves. Every person who, between the fifteenth day of February and the first day of July of the same year, hunts, pursues, takes, kills or destroys, or has in his possession, any dove, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. 1895, 257. Rep. 1897, 92. En. Stats. 1901, 819. Am'd. 1903, 3. § 626b. Nests or eggs. Every person who destroys or has in his possession the nest or eggs of any of the birds mentioned in this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. Stats. 1895, 257. Rep. 1897, 92. En. Stats. 1901, 819. § 626c. Swan, pheasant, bob-white quail. Every person who takes, kills, or destroys, or has in his possession any swan, or any pheasant, or any bob-white quail, or any variety |