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city where such corporation is located, for the benefit of the primary school fund of said town or city.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect in ninety days after its

passage.

An Act Relating to Telegraph Operators and others.

[Approved February 12, 1853. Laws of 1853, p. 112.]

fully divulging private Tele

nications.

677.

(5912.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Penalty for willThat any person connected with any telegraph company in contents of this State, either as clerk, operator, messenger, or in any other graphic commucapacity, who shall willfully divulge the contents, or the nature See Sec. 2064, p. of the contents, of any private communication entrusted to him or her for transmission or delivery, or who shall willfully refuse or neglect to transmit or deliver the same, shall, on conviction before any Court, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer imprisonment in the County jail or workhouse in the County where such conviction shall be had, for a term not more than three months, or shall pay a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the Court. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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officers for willful

(5913.) SECTION 1. If any officer on whom any duty is Punishment of enjoined by law, relative to general, special, township or neglect of duty charter elections, or the canvassing or return of votes given laws.

under election

nishment for bribing an elector, etc.

1814, p. 15.

Punishment for
Illegal Voting.

at any election, shall be guilty of any willful neglect of such duty, or of any corrupt conduct in the execution of the same, he shall, on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State prison not exceeding three years.

(5914.) SEC. 2. If any person shall by bribery, menace, or any other corrupt means or device whatever, either directly or indirectly, attempt to influence any elector in giving his vote, or deter him from, or interrupt him in giving the same, at any election held pursuant to the provisions of law, such person shall on conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

(5915.) SEC. 3. Every person not a qualified voter, who shall, at any election, willfully give in a vote for any officer then to be chosen; and every qualified voter who at such election, shall vote or offer to vote in any township or ward in which he does not reside, or who shall vote or offer to vote more than once at the same election, either in the same or any other township or ward, or shall give in two or more votes folded together, shall, on conviction thereof, be adjudged 1841, p. 186, Sec. guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine not 1844, p. 16, Sec. exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County jail not exceeding one year, or both in the discretion

3.

2.

Penalty for coun

selling, etc, any

fied to vote.

of the Court.

(5916.) SEC. 4. Every person who shall procure, aid or person not quali counsel any person not duly qualified to vote at the place where the vote is given or offered, to give or offer his vote at any such election, and every person who shall procure, aid, or counsel any person to go or come into any township or 1841, p. 187, Sec. ward for the purpose of voting therein, at any election, knowing

4 and 5.

Punishment for violation of Ballot Box, etc.

that such person is not duly qualified to vote in such township or ward, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished in the manner prescribed in the third section of this chapter.

(5917.) SEC. 5. Any person not duly authorized by law, who shall, during the progress of any election in this State, or after the closing of the polls, and before the ballots are counted, and the result ascertained, break open, or violate the seals or locks of any ballot box in which ballots have been deposited at such election, or who shall obtain undue possession of such

ballot box containing such ballots, and conceal, withhold, or destroy the same, or who shall fraudulently or forcibly add to or diminish the number of ballots legally deposited, and all persons aiding or abetting therein, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison for a term not exceeding ten 1841, p. 188, Sec. years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

8.

etc, to cause of

rested and give

cuting Attorney.

(5918.) SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of every inspector of Duty of Sheriff, elections, Sheriff, Constable, and Justice of the Peace, knowing, fender to be aror having reason to believe that an offence punishable under notice to Prosethe provisions of this chapter, has been committed, to cause the offender forthwith to be arrested, and to give information thereof to the Prosecuting Attorney without delay, and such Prosecuting Attorney shall adopt effectual measures for the punishment of all persons who shall violate the provisions of this chapter.

Grand Jury to

against this

(5919.) SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of all Courts in this Courts to charge State, having cognizance of such offences, at each term thereof, present offences to charge the Grand Jury to make presentment of all offences Chapter. committed within their respective counties, against any of the provisions of this chapter.

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R. S. of N. Y.,
Art. 5, Title 8,
Chap. 20, Part 1.

cing, and pun

(5920.) SECTION 1. All running, trotting, or pacing of horses, what deemed ra or any other animals, for any bet or stakes, in money, goods ishment therefor. or other valuable thing, or for any reward to be given to the owner or rider of any animal which shall excel in speed, excepting such as are by special laws for that purpose

Apprehension, atc., of person offending.

Forfeiture for making up purse, etc.

Owner to forfeit value of animal, etc.

expressly allowed, shall be deemed racing within the meaning of this chapter, and are hereby declared to be common and public nuisances and misdemeanors; and all parties concerned therein, either as authors, betters, stakers, stake holders, judges to determine the speed of animals, riders, contrivers, or abetters thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment, not exceeding one year, in the County jail.

(5921.) SEC. 2. Upon his own view of any person offending against the provisions of this chapter, as well as upon the testimony of others, any Justice of the Peace may issue his warrant for the immediate apprehension of the persons so offending, to the end that they may be compelled to enter into recognizances, with sufficient sureties for their good behavior, and for their appearance at the next Circuit Court for the County, to answer for the said offences.

(5922.) SEC. 3. Every person who shall contribute or collect any money, goods, or things in action, for the purpose of making up a purse, plate, or other valuable thing, to be raced for by any animal, contrary to law, shall forfeit the sum of twenty-five dollars for each offence.

(5923.) SEC. 4. The owner in whole or in part of any animal 'that shall be used or employed by his permission or privity, in racing, contrary to law, shall forfeit the value of the animal so used or employed; and every person who shall be concerned in laying any bet or wager upon the event of any illegal race, or in contributing to the stakes to be awarded upon any such event, shall forfeit the amount of the bet or wager so made, or of the sum or thing so contributed.

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Chapter Forty-Five of Revised Statutes of 1846.

fire to woods,

ished.

(5924.) SECTION 1. Every person who shall willfully or neg-Willfully setting ligently set fire to any woods, prairies, or grounds, not his own ete, how pun property, or shall willfully or negligently permit any fire to pass from his own woods, prairies, or grounds, to the injury or destruction of the property of any other person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the County jail not exceeding one year, or both, in the discretion of the Court; and shall also bo liable to the party injured in double the amount of damages. sustained.

to order inhabit

tinguishing fires.

(5925.) SEC. 2. Whenever the woods or prairies in any Duty of Justices township shall be on fire, so as to endanger property, it shall ants to aid in exbe the duty of the Justices of the Peace, the Supervisor, and the Commissioners of Highways of such township, and each of them, to order such, and so many of the inhabitants of such township, liable to work on the highways, and residing in the vicinity of the place where such fire shall be, as they shall severally deem necessary, to repair to the place where such fire shall prevail, and there to assist in extinguishing the same, or in stopping its progress.

ing compliance

(5926.) SEC. 3. If any person shall refuse or willfully neglect Penalty for refus to comply with such order, he shall forfeit a sum not less than with the order. five, nor more than fifty dollars.

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