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a sum not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars, with costs of suit, one-half the damage or penalty to go to the use of the informer, the other half of the damage or penalty to the occupant or owner of the premises on which the said trespass shall or may be committed; and in default of payment of said fine or judgment, with costs of suit, the party convicted may and shall be committed to the jail of said county, for not less than twenty, nor more than sixty days, said complaint or action to be in the name of the Commonwealth, and the testimony of the owner or occupant of the premises shall be admitted as evidence to prove the trespass and damage sustained: Provided, That when the owner of the premises shall become the informant, then one-half of the penalty shall be appropriated to the school fund of the district in which the trespass was committed.

XLIII. POISONING FISH.

Act 1 May, 1873, Sec. 23, P. L., 92.-No person shall place in any fresh-water stream, lake or pond, any lime or other deleterious substance, or any drug, or medicated bait, with intent thereby to injure, poison or catch fish, nor place in any pond, lake or stream stocked with or inhabited by salmon, trout, bass, pickerel, sunfish, or perch, any drug or other deleterious substance, with intent to kill or catch such salmon, trout, bass or other fish; any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, in addition thereto, and in addition to any damage he may have done, be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the common jail of the county in which such offence is committed, not exceeding three months, or by such penalty and imprisonment both.

XLIV. PENALTY FOR ESCAPE FROM, OR BREAKING ANY PROPERTY OF THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT PHILADELPHIA, BY AN INMATE.

Act 2 June, 1871, Sec. 9, P. L., 1304.-Any inmate of said institution who shall wilfully break, destroy or injure any material, machinery, tool, property or thing belonging to the said institution, or shall escape therefrom, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any court of record

of the county of Philadelphia, may be punished by imprisonment at hard labor, for not less than one month or more than one year.

XLV. CUTTING FERRY ROPES, PENALTY FOR. FERRY ROPES TO BE SUNK, PENALTY FOR.

Act 8 February, 1766, Sec. 1, 1 Sm., 266.-If any person or persons, from and after the publication of this act, shall cut any rope, stretched across the river Schuylkill and other rivers and creeks within this province, by the owner or occupier of any ferry, and used in drawing the boats carrying travellers over the same, and shall be thereof legally convicted before any county Court of Quarter Sessions, to be held for the county where the said offence shall be committed, or such offender apprehended, every such person or persons, so offending, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, one moiety thereof to the owner or owners of the said rope, and the other moiety thereof to the overseers of the poor of the city or township where such owner or owners shall reside, to be applied by them to the use of the poor of the said township.

If any person or persons shall have occasion to go up or down the said rivers or creeks in shallops, or other larger decked vessels, every such person shall request the owners or occupiers, their ferrymen or servants, to slacken and sink the said ropes, in such manner as to enable him or them to pass with his shallop, or other larger decked vessel, in safety; and if the said owners or occupiers, their ferry men or servants, shall neglect or refuse to slacken and sink the said rope, in manner aforesaid, with all convenient speed, every such owner or occupier, being thereof legally convicted in the said Court of Quarter Sessions, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds, one moiety thereof to the owner or owners of the said vessels so passing up or down the said river or creeks, and the other moiety to the overseers of the poor of the said township for the use of the poor thereof.

Act 8 February, 1766, Sec. 2, 1 Sm., 267.-All flats or boats passing up or down the said river, if they shall be navigated by sails, shall have their masts to strike or take down occasionally, and the owners thereof, when they come near to the said ropes, shall take down and strike the said masts, and shall, with all other flats and boats, pass under the said ropes without injuring or damaging the same, as aforesaid, unless the said flats shall be

so loaded, as to require the raising or sinking the said ropes, in which case the said owner or owners of any of the said ropes, his or their servant or servants, shall, on such notice to be given, as aforesaid, by the person navigating such loaded flats, raise or sink the said ropes, in such manner as to suffer and enable the said flats to pass by with safety, under the said penalty of ten pounds, to be recovered and applied in manner aforesaid.

ED. NOTE.-Act 31 March, 1806, 4 Sm., 347, provides regulations for passing ferries on Schuylkill River.

XLVI. PENALTY FOR MISDEMEANOR BY MINERS, WORKMEN AND OTHERS, IN BITUMINOUS COAL MINES.

Act 18 April, 1877, Sec. 6, P. L., 59.—Any miners, workmen or other person, who shall intentionally injure any shaft, lamp, instrument, air-course or brattice, or obstruct or throw open airways, or carry lighted pipes or matches into places that are worked by safety lamps, or handle or disturb any part of the machinery, or open a door and not close it again, or enter any place of the mine against caution, or disobey any order given in carrying out the provisions of this act, or do any other act whereby the lives or the health of persons, or the security of the mines or the machinery, is endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished in the manner provided in the 16th section of this act; all machinery about mines shall be properly fenced off, and the top of each shaft and the entrance of every abandoned slope and air or other shaft shall be securely fenced off; and there shall be cut in the sides of every hoisting shaft, at the bottom thereof, a travelling way sufficiently high and wide to enable persons to pass the shaft in going from one side of the mine to the other without passing over or under the cage or other hoisting apparatus.

Act 18 April, 1877, Sec. 16, P. L., 64.-The neglect or refusal to perform the duties required to be performed by any section of this act by the parties therein required to perform them, or the violation of any of the provisions or requirements hereof, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine of not less than two hundred dollars, nor not exceeding five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court; and all pen

alties recovered under this act shall be paid into the treasury of the State.

XLVII. PENALTY FOR UNLAWFUL MINING OF COAL, IRON AND OTHER MINERALS.

Act 8 May, 1876, Sec. 1, P. L., 142.-If any person or corporation shall mine or dig out any coal, iron or other minerals, knowing the same to be upon the lands of another person or corporation, without the consent of the owner, the person or corporation so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, being thereof convicted, shall be sentenced to pay such fine, not exceed ing one thousand dollars, or to such imprisonment, not exceeding one year, as the court, in their discretion, may think proper to impose; and the person or corporation so offending, shall be further liable to pay to such owner double the value of the said coal, iron or other materials so mined, dug out or removed, or in case of the conversion of the same to the use of such offender or offenders treble the value thereof, to be recovered with costs of suit by action of trespass or trover as the case may be, and no prosecution by indictment under this act shall be a bar to such action: Provided, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to persons picking coal for their own domestic use.

XLVIII. OWNERS AND AGENTS OF ANTHRACITE COAL MINES SHALL FILE WITH THE INSPECTOR OF MINES A TRUTHFUL MAP OF HIS MINES. PENALTY FOR FAILURE.

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Act 8 May, 1876, Sec. 1, P. L., 130.— And in case the said owner or agent shall neglect or refuse to furnish the maps or plans by this section required, or any of them, or shall knowingly and designedly cause such maps or plans when furnished to be incorrect or false, such owner or agent thus offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding three months, at the discretion of the court.

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IX. Having in possession plates, XVIII. Forging, embezzling or cor

bank notes or bank-note
paper.

X. Connecting parts of notes or
other instruments, so as to
produce more.
XI. Having in possession more
than ten forged notes, with
intent to defraud.
XII. Passing notes of fictitious
banks.
XIII. Forging and uttering, etc., of

national currency, punished
as the offences in the 164th,
165th, 166th and 167th sec-

tions of the Act 31 March,

1860, P. L., 422, 423.

rupting records.

XIX. Counterfeiting and forging public brands, and erasing and forging inspectors' marks, etc.

XX. Forging and counterfeiting trade-marks, labels, etc., with intent to deceive or defraud. XXI. Having in possession dies, plates, etc., with intent to use the same.

XXII. Vending goods fraudulently marked.

XXIII. Fraudulent use of registered bottles, and dealing in them, how punished.

XIV. Penalty for forging bonds of XXIV. Forgery of telegraphic dis

the United States, or any

State, municipality, corpo

ration, individual or com

pany.

patches.

I. COUNTERFEITING COIN.

Act 31 March, 1860, Sec. 156, P. L., 420.—Any person who shall falsely and fraudulently make or counterfeit any coin, re

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