by law the direction or management of the affairs of a corporation, by whatever name such persons are described in its charter, or are known in law. CHAPTER XII. FRAUDS IN THE SALE OF PASSAGE TICKETS. SEC. 615. Sale of passage tickets on vessels and railroads, for 617. Unauthorized persons forbidden to sell certificates, 622. Owners, pursers, etc., allowed to sell tickets. 623. Station masters, conductors, etc., allowed to sell tickets. 624. What must be stated in passage tickets. 625. Sale of tickets not filled out as required in last section, 626. Certain sales and exchanges of passenger tickets. § 615. Sale of passage tickets forbidden except by agents. Repealed. § 616. Sales by authorized agents restricted.-No person except as allowed in section 622 shall ask, take or receive any money or valuable thing as a consideration for any passage or conveyance upon any vessel or railway train, or for the procurement of any ticket or instrument giving or purporting to give a right, either absolutely or upon a condition or contingency, to a passage or conveyance upon a vessel or railway train, or a berth or state-room on a vessel, unless he is an authorized agent within the provisions of the last section; nor shall any person, as such agent, sell or offer to sell any such ticket, instrument, berth or state-room, or ask, take or receive any consideration for any such passage, conveyance, berth or state-room, excepting at the office designated in his appointment, nor until he has been authorized to act as such agent according to the provisions of the last section, nor for a sum exceeding the price charged at the time of such sale, by the company, owners or consignees of the vessel or railway mentioned in the ticket. But a person who shall have purchased a ticket in good faith for his own passage, and shall have been prevented from using the same, may sell the ticket at any price not greater than the regular rate establised therefor, to another purchaser in good faith, for his own use. § 617. Unauthorized persons forbidden to sell certificates, receipts, etc., for the purpose of procuring tickets. No person other than an agent appointed, as provided in section 615, shall sell, or offer to sell, or in any way attempt to dispose of any order, certificate, receipt or other instrument for the purpose, or under the pretense, of procuring any ticket, or instruinent mentioned in section 615, upon any company or line, vessel or railway train therein mentioned. And every such order sold or offered for sale by any agent, must be directed to the company, owners or consignees at their office. § 618. Punishment for violation of the preceding sections.-A person guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of the preceding sections of this chapter, is punishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding two years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not less than six months. §619. Conspiracy to sell passage tickets in violation of law. All persons who conspire together to sell or attempt to sell, to any person, any passage ticket, or other instrument mentioned in sections 615 and 617, in violation of those sections, and all persons, who, by means of any such conspiracy, obtain, or attempt to obtain any money or other property, under the pretense of procuring or securing any passage or right of passage in violation of this chapter, are punishable by imprisonment in a state prison not exceeding five years. $620. Conspirators may be indicted.-Persons guilty of violating the last section may be indicted and convicted for a conspiracy, though the object of such conspiracy has not been executed. See § 171, supra. § 621. Offices for unlawful sale of passage tickets, declared disorderly houses.—All offices kept for the purpose of selling passage tickets in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and all offices where any such sale is made, are deemed disorderly houses; and all persons keeping any such office, and all persons associating together for the purpose of violating any of the provisions of this chapter, are punishable by imprisonment in a county jail, for a period not exceeding six months, and not less than three months. § 622.-Owners, pursers, etc., allowed to sell tickets. -The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the actual owners or consignees of any vessel, from selling passage tickets thereon; nor do they prevent the purser or clerk of any vessel from selling in his office on board of such vessel, any passage tickets upon such vessel. §623. Station masters, conductors, etc., allowed to sell tickets. The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the station master or other ticket agent upon any railway, from selling in his office at any station on such railway, any passage tickets upon such railway; nor do they prevent any conductor upon a railway from selling such tickets upon the trains of such railway. § 624. What must be stated in passage tickets.-A ticket or instrument issued as evidence of a right of passage upon the high seas, from any port in this state, to any port of any other state or nation, and every certificate or order issued for the purpose, or under pretense of procuring any such ticket or instrument, and every receipt for money paid for such ticket or instrument must state the name of the vessel on board of which the passage is to be made, the name of the owners or consignees of such vessel, the name of the company, or line, if any, to which such vessel belongs, the place from which such passage is to commence, the place where such passage is to terminate, the day of the month and year upon which the voyage is to commence, the name of the person or persons purchasing such ticket or instrument, or receiv ing such order, certificate or receipt, and the amount paid therefor; and such ticket or instrument, order, certificate or receipt, unless sold or issued by the owners or consignees of such vessel, must be signed by their authorized agent. § 625. Sale of tickets not filled out as required in last section, a misdemeanor.-A person who issues, sells or delivers to another, any ticket, instrument, certificate, order or receipt, which is not made or filled out as prescribed in the last section, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 626. Sales of passenger tickets at excessive rates, &c.-A person who, 1. Sells, or causes to be sold, a passage ticket, or order for such ticket on any railway, vehicle or vessel, to any emigrant passenger at a higher rate than one and a quar ter cents per mile; or 2. Takes payment for any such ticket or order for a ticket under a false representation as to the class of the ticket, whether emigrant or first-class; or 3. Directly or indirectly, by means of false representations, purchases or receives from an emigrant passenger any such ticket; or 4. Procures or solicits any such passenger having such a ticket, to exchange the same for another passenger ticket, or to sell the same and purchase some other passenger ticket; or 5. Solicits or books any passenger arriving at the port of New York from a foreign country, before such passenger has left the vessel on which he has arrived, or enters or goes on board any vessel arriving at the port of New York from a foreign country, having emigrant passengers on board, for the purpose of soliciting or booking such passengers, and a person or agent of a corporation employing any person for the purpose of booking such passengers before leaving the ship; Is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 627. "Company" defined.-The term "company," as used in this chapter, includes all corporations, whether created under the laws of this state, or of the United States, or of those of any other state or nation. CHAPTER XIII. FRAUDULENT ISSUE OF DOCUMENTS OF TITLE TO MERCHANDISE. SEC. 628. Issuing fictitious bills of lading, etc. 629. Issuing fictitious warehouse receipts. 630. Erroneous bills of lading or receipts, issued in good 631. Duplicate receipts must be marked "duplicate." 633. Bill of lading or receipt issued by warehouseman, § 628. Issuing fictitious bills of lading, etc.-A person being the master, owner or agent of any vessel, or officer or agent of any railway, express or transpor tation company, or otherwise being or representing any carrier, who delivers any bill of lading, receipt or other voucher, by which it appears that merchandise of any kind has been shipped on board a vessel, or delivered to a railway, express or transportation company, or other carrier, unless the same has been so shipped or delivered and is at the time actually under the control of such carrier, or the master, owner or agent of such vessel, or of some officer or agent of such company, to be forwarded as |