XLIV. RECEIVING MONEY ON DEPOSIT FRAUDULENTLY. Act 22 April, 1863, Sec. 1, P. L., 562.-It shall not be lawful for any saving-fund society or company, or any officer or agent thereof, within this Commonwealth, to receive on deposit any sum or sums of money whatever, when such society or company has not assets sufficient, at their cash value, to pay all its debts and liabilities; and any officer or agent of any such society or company, who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this act, by receiving a deposit of any sum or sums of money, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be liable to a fine, not exceeding one thousand dollars, and an imprisonment, in the jail of the proper county, for a term not exceeding three years, or both, or either, at the discretion of the court. XLV. PENALTY FOR NOT WRITING ON THE FACE OF A PROMISSORY NOTE GIVEN IN WHOLE OR PART FOR A PATENTRIGHT, THE WORDS, "GIVEN FOR A PATENT-RIGHT." Act 12 April, 1872, Sec. 2, P. L., 60.-If any person shall take, sell or transfer any promissory note or other negotiable instrument, not having the words "given for a patent-right," written or printed legibly and prominently on the face of such note or instrument, above the signature thereto, knowing the consideration of such note or instrument to consist, in whole or in part, of the right to make, use or vend any patent invention or inventions claimed to be patented, every such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail, not exceeding sixty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. XLVI. PENALTY FOR REMOVING SHINGLES, LUMBER, LOGS, ETC., ADRIFT, FROM THE SCHUYLKILL RIVER. Act 11 April, 1866, Sec. 4, P. L., 590.-Any person or persons who shall take up and secure any logs, shingles or lumber, when adrift, or that may be lodged upon the shores or islands of said rivers [Delaware and Schuylkill], in case of accident or flood, and shall convey the same away to a greater distance than thirty yards from the margin of said rivers; or who shall secrete the same in any place whatever; or who shall fail or neglect to advertise the same, as aforesaid; or who shall appropriate the whole or any part thereof to his own use; or who shall purchase the same, except at public sale, as aforesaid, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to pay a fine of three times the value thereof, or undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. XLVII. PENALTY FOR SECRETING OR APPROPRIATING LUMBER ADRIFT IN THE DELAWARE RIVER OR LODGED ON ANY ISLAND OR SHORE. Act 19 April, 1864, Sec. 4, P. L., 481.—Any person or persons who shall take up and secure any kind of lumber or logs while adrift, or that may be lodged upon the shore or islands of said river, in case of accident or flood, and shall convey away the same to a greater distance than twenty yards from the margin of said river; or who shall secrete the same in any place whatever; or who shall fail or neglect to advertise the same (if over the value of five dollars), as aforesaid; or who shall appropriate the whole or any part thereof to his own use, without having first complied in all respects with the requirements of this act; or who shall aid in, assist or procure the same to be done, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined three times the value of the lumber so secreted or removed, and imprisoned not exceeding two years, or both, at the discretion of the court. XLVIII. FRAUDULENT AND WILFUL USE OF REGISTERED MARKS ON LUMBER IN THE SUSQUEHANNA OR LEHIGH RIVERS, OR FRAUDULENT CLAIMING OF LUMBER, OR REFUSAL TO SURRENDER ANOTHER'S LOGS DULY STAMPED OR MARKED, OR DEFACEMENT OF MARKS ON LUMBER, OR SALE OR PURCHASE THEREOF, OR CONSUMPTION OF, HOW PUNISHED. Act 10 April, 1862, Sec. 5, P. L., 385.—If any person or persons shall fraudulently or wilfully use the registered mark of another, or shall fraudulently make claim to be the owner of any lumber of any kind, whether marked or not, in and along said streams and main river; or shall fraudulently refuse to deliver up any lumber of the kinds aforesaid, duly stamped or marked as aforesaid, in accordance with the 2d and 3d sections of this act; or shall, without authority from the owner or owners thereof, wilfully deface or obliterate any marks, names, figures, letters or other devices of designation thereon, whether registered or not; or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy or injure, or knowingly permit to be sawed or consumed upon his, her or their mill, or other factory, or shall fraudulently sell or purchase, or convert to his, her or their use, any lumber of the kinds mentioned in the 1st section of this act, whether marked with registered marks as aforesaid or not, unless the same shall have become duly forfeited, according to the provisions of this act, or the provisions of existing laws; every such person so offending shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and if the court deem proper, also undergo an imprisonment by separate and solitary confinement, at labor, or simple imprisonment, not exceeding three years. XLIX. PENALTY FOR DEFACING OWNER'S MARKS ON LUMBER IN MCKEAN COUNTY FLOATING ON THE ALLEGHENY RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES, AND FRAUDULENT USE OF SUCH MARKS, AND FOR FALSELY CLAIMING TO OWN ANY LUMBER, ETC. Act 2 May, 1876, Sec. 5, P. L., 195.-If any person or persons shall fraudulently or wilfully use the registered mark of another, or shall fraudulently make claim to be the owner of any lumber, of any kind, whether marked or not, in and along said streams and main river, shall fraudulently refuse to deliver up any lumber of the kinds aforesaid, duly stamped or marked as aforesaid, in accordance with the 2d and 3d sections of this act, or shall, without authority from the owner or owners thereof, wilfully deface or obliterate any marks, names, figures, letters or other devices of designation thereon, whether registered or not, or shall fraudulently saw, split, consume, destroy or injure, or knowingly permit to be sawed or consumed, upon his, her or their mill or other factory, or shall fraudulently sell or purchase, or convert to his, her or their use, any lumber of the kind mentioned in the 1st section of this act, whether marked with registered mark as aforesaid, or not, unless the same shall have become duly forfeited, according to the provisions of this act, or the provisions of existing laws, every such person so offending shall, for every such offence, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and if the court deem proper, also undergo an imprisonment by separate and solitary confinement at labor, or imprisonment, not exceeding three years. TITLE H. OFFENCES AGAINST REAL PROPERTY AND MALICIOUS I. Burglary. MISCHIEF. II. Entering a dwelling-house in the daytime, to commit felony. III. The breaking into a common school house at night, to commit larceny or any other felony, hereby declared to be burglary. IV. Arson. V. Possession not to exempt from conviction for arson. VI. Burning out-houses, and setting fire with intent to burn. VII. Setting fire with intent to defraud insurers. VIII. Firing woods, barrens or moors. IX. Firing wild lands in Union and other counties. Penalty. X. Mayor, alderman, justice of the peace, officers of insurance companies, authorized to summon jury and witnesses to inquire into cause of any fire. XI. Attempting to blow up buildings. XII. Injury to plank-roads or turnpikes, how punished. XIII. Malicious injury to railroads. XIV. Casting wood, stone, etc., upon a car. XV. Malicious injury to artificial navigation. XVI. Wantonly opening or shutting any lock, or waste, feeder or sluice-gate, or preventing the unobstructed use thereof. XVII. Destroying any bank or wall of any river, canal, marsh, etc. XVIII. Penalty for removing or injuring any breakwater or embankment along property fronting on any stream. XIX. Destroying or damaging engines, inclined plane, station-house, engine-house, bridge, trestle-work, or other structure of a railroad, any fence or wall, wires and appurtenances of a telegraph company, bridge or mill-dam, flag or flagstaff, beacon, buoy other water-marks spouting to houses, or de facement of any house, etc., how punished. XX. Breaking windows, tearing off knockers or bell-pull, tearing down or defacing sign, etc., how punished. XXI. Injury to the grounds of the Capitol hill. or XXII. Drowning any mine or filling up any shaft. XXIII. Defacing the boundary marks or monuments erected by the Ohio and Pennsylvania, and West Virginia and Pennsylvania boundary commissions. XXIV. Penalty for destroying flowers in cemeteries, and trespassing upon private inclosures. XXV. Maliciously injuring fire engines or hose. |