indictments.

employer, principal or bailor, or by any court, corporation or company; upon conviction thereof, or of having aided or abetted in the commission thereof, or of having been accessory thereto, before or after the fact, shall suffer imprisonment at hard labor, not exceeding seven, nor less than one year.

Sec. 906. In prosecutions for embezzlement or larceny of bank Allegations of notes, checks, bills of exchange, promissory notes, gold or silver money, or of any other property of that kind, it shall not be necessary to set forth in the indictment, a minute and detailed description thereof, but a general allegation of the amount, and the things embezzled or stolen, shall be sufficient; and evidence of larceny or embezzlement of a part shall warrant a conviction.

banks, by pres

etc.

D. Sec. 1056.

Sec. 907. Any president, cashier, teller or clerk, or other officer Embezzlement or person employed in the service of any bank chartered by this of money in State, or which may be hereafter chartered by this State, who ident, cashier, shall knowingly and willfully embezzle or convert to his own use, or shall knowingly aid and abet any person in embezzling or converting to his own use, any money belonging to such bank, or deposited therein, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned at hard labor, not more than seven, nor less than one year.

Disorderly

houses.

Keepers of taverns, etc.,

D. Sec. 1056.

OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER, HEALTH AND POLICE.

Sec. 908. Whoever shall be guilty of keeping any disorderly inn, tavern, ale-house, tippling-house, gaming-house or brothel, shall suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, and the offender may likewise be adjudged to forfeit his license to keep a house of public resort or entertainment.

D. Sec. 1704.

Sec. 909. If the keeper of any tavern, lodging or boardinghouse shall knowingly receive, harbor, lodge or conceal any deharboring de- serter from any merchant vessel, he shall, on conviction, pay a merchant ves- fine of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.

serters from

sels.

license.

D. Sec. 1705.

Sec. 910. Whoever shall keep a grog or tippling-shop, or reKeeping grog- tail spirituous liquors, without previously obtaining a license shop without from the police jury, town or city authorities, on conviction, shall be fined not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and in default of payment shall be imprisoned not less than fifteen days, nor more than four months.

and

D. Sec. 1215.

Sec. 911. Whoever shall keep a banking-game or bankingBanking- house, at which money, or anything representing money, or any Banking-hous- article of value shall be bet or hazarded, or shall aid or assist in keeping one, shall, on conviction, for the first offense, be fined not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars;

es.

and on conviction of a second offense, not less than five thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, and be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one nor more than five years.

D. Sec. 274.

posed of.

Sec. 912. The fines imposed by the preceding section shall, when collected, be paid one-half for the use of the parish in Fines, how diswhich the offense is committed, and the other half to the charity hospital of New Orleans.

Sec. 913. All persons engaged in gambling, where no current money is actually exhibited or employed, but where, in lieu thereof, pieces of bone, or any other material or substance, being the representative of money, by virtue of any express or tacit understanding among the parties engaged in gambling, and all persons engaged in playing or betting for or against such game, shall be deemed and taken to be within the prohibitions of the preceding sections; and all persons engaged therein shall be liable to all the penalties therein provided against gaming-houses and banking-games.

Gambling with representa

bones, or other tives of money.

offending, by

arrested.

Sec. 914. It shall be lawful for any public officer, or other person, to arrest and take into custody any person keeping or Persons playing any banking-game, or aiding or assisting therein, together whom may be with all the tables, money, representatives of money, implements and other paraphernalia which may be used in keeping such banking-houses, or in playing such banking-game, and take, or cause them to be taken before any committing magistrate, who shall commit such persons for trial if upon a hearing there be sufficient cause therefor.

It shall be the duty of the officer committing such offenders to take an inventory of all money, or its representative, tables or other implements, or paraphernalia, that may be seized and brought before him, all of which shall on conviction be forfeited, one-half for the use of the charity hospital of New Orleans, the other half for the use of the parish in which the offense is committed..

cealed

weap

Sec. 915. When any officer has good reason to believe that any person has weapons concealed about him, on proof thereof Carrying conbeing made to any justice of the peace, by the oath of one or ons. more credible witnesses, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace to issue a warrant against such offender, and have him searched, and, should he be found with such weapons, to bind him over to keep the peace of the State, with such securrity as may appear necessary, for one year; and on his failing to give good and sufficient security, he shall commit such offender to prison for any time not exceeding twenty days. He shall also be bound to appear before the district court to answer the charge.

D. Sec. 897, 932, 1393.

Sec. 916. Whoever shall make, on the bank of any river or navigable stream of this State, any work tending to alter the Nuisance on course of the water, or increase its rapidity, or make its naviga

water-courses.

Penalty for

charging for

tion more difficult; or who shall make on the river bank, or on any highway or bridge, or in other place of public use, without the permission of the proper authority, any work tending to hinder and embarrass such public use, shall upon conviction, be compelled to pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each offense, and the court shall further order the nuisance to be removed at the expense of the party convicted.

Sec. 917. Whoever shall be convicted of having received any compensation for the landing of any freight or any other use of the river articles on the river bank before his land; or for any other use thereof, permitted by the laws of this State, shall on conviction be fined not less than five hundred dollars.

bank.

Placing obstructions,

roads.

This section shall not be applicable to corporations of cities and towns.

Sec. 918. Whoever shall place any obstruction upon any railway within this State, with intent to hinder, or obstruct, or imetc., on rail- pede, or endanger free passing thereon, or with the design to injure the said railway, or the passengers, or engine, or cars passing thereon, or whoever shall take up or loosen, or remove any part of the superstructure of any railway with like intent or design, or whoever shall displace any switch upon any railway with like intent or design, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned not exceeding five years at hard labor, nor less than thirty days in the parish prison, and fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court. Act 1861, p. 100.

for injuring engines, &c.

Sec. 919. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously impair, or Fine of $500 injure or destroy any engine, or carriage, or car, or cut, or destroy any bridge, or any basement, or tressel-work belonging to any railway, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

telegraph.

Sec. 920. Whoever shall unlawfully and intentionally injure, Penalty for in- molest or destroy any line of telegraph, the lines, posts, abutloring pines of ments, materials or property belonging thereto; or who shall molest or interfere with, or in any way interrupt the use or operation of any line of telegraph, or part thereof, shall on conviction be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

penalty for

D. Sec. 3762. Act 1855, p. 130.

Sec. 921. Any operator, clerk, director, messenger, or other Telegraphs, person in the employ of any telegraph company, having an offailing or re- fice or station in this State, who shall refuse or omit to send or fusing to send deliver any dispatch or message on which the charges or fees

messages.

shall have been paid or offered to be paid, or for the payment of which a contract shall have been made; or cause or direct to be detained or delayed such dispatch or message in order to give precedence to a message or dispatch subsequently brought to the office or station; or who shall in any way give precedence

of time in sending or delivering any dispatch or message belonging to a director, officer, stockholder of such company, or other person, over any dispatch or message previously offered for transmission; or who shall reveal, make use of, or make public, any dispatch or message, shall on conviction be fined not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, one-half to the charity hospital of New Orleans, and the other half for the use of the parish in which the offense is committed, and shall be answerable in damages to the party injured.

For any subsequent offense the person so offending shall also be subject to imprisonment in the parish prison for a period not more than three months.

D. Sec. 405, 3763.

mit messages

justice.

Sec. 922. No operator or agent of any telegraph company shall be permitted to transmit any message which can in any Not to transway tend to defeat the ends of justice, by preventing the ap- tending to deprehension of fugitives from justice, or by communicating such feat the ends of information as may enable persons charged with offenses to escape. Any person so offending shall be imprisoned not less than twelve months nor more than two years at hard labor, and fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

D. Sec. 3764.

graph compa

dispatches.

Penalty for

Sec. 923. All telegraph companies shall be bound, on application of any officer of this State or of the United States, in Duty of telethe event of any war, insurrection or resistance of public au- nies to transthority, or whenever it may be necessary for the prevention of mist certain crime, or the arrest of persons accused of crime or fleeing from justice, to give their communications immediate dispatch; and if any officer, clerk or operator shall refuse or intentionally omit failure to do to transmit such communication, or shall designedly alter or fal- 50. sify the same for any purpose whatever, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars and imprisoned not longer than one year. It shall further be their duty to transmit all communications which are not immoral or contrary to law or public policy, that are presented by persons offering to pay the usual rates therefor, and in the order in which the plications are made.

D. Sec. 697, 3761. Act 1855, p. 100.

ap

streams, bays,

Sec. 924. Whoever shall throw, or cause to be thrown or conveyed into any navigable stream, bay or lake; within this structions in State, bagasse from sugar mills, ballast from vessels, sinking navigable timber of any kind, or any other matter of a nature to form an or lakes. obstruction to its free navigation; whoever shall fell or throw any tree, or any part thereof, or cause the same to be felled or thrown into any navigable river, bay or lake, within the State, or in any other manner do, or cause to be done, any act, with a view willfully to obstruct the navigation or render it more diffi

to charge

cult or dangerous, shall on conviction be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense.

It shall be the duty of the judges of the several judicial disDuty of judges tricts, on the opening of the jury terms of their courts, in pargrand juries. ishes in which there are navigable streams, bays or lakes, to charge the grand jury to inquire into and prevent any infraction of this section.

Breaking or cutting levees.

Attempt to

levees.

Sec. 925. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously cut, alter, break, pull down, or destroy in any manner whatsoever, any levee or embankment on the Mississippi, or any other navigable river or waters of this State, or shall aid or abet any person in so doing, shall on conviction be imprisoned at hard labor not more than fourteen years, and fined not exceeding five thousand dollars.

D. Sec. 3027.

[No. 18. An Act to amend and re-enact sections 925, 926 and 927 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana in General Assembly convened, That section 925 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana be and is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to wit:

"SEC. 925. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously cut, alter, break, pull down or destroy in any manner whatsoever any public or private levee or embankment, the same being within a levee district in the State of Louisiana, and made for protection from overflow, or shall aid or abet any person in so doing, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned at hard labor in the State Penitentiary not more than ten years or fined not exceeding tive thousand dollars."

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That section 926 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to wit:

"SEC. 926. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously attempt to cut, alter, or break, pull down or destroy in any manner whatsoever any public or private levee or embankment, the same being within a levee district in the State of Louisiana, and made for protection from overflow, shall on conviction, be imprisoned at hard labor in the State Penitentiary not exceeding two years, or be fined not exceeding three thousand dollars."

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That section 927 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows, to wit:

"SEC. 927. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously cut, alter or break, pull down or destroy, and whoever shall willfully and maliciously aid and abet any person in the act of cutting, altering or breaking in any manner whatsoever levees, canals or other works made to protect the city of New Orleans from overflow shall, on conviction, be imprisoned at hard labor in the State Penitentiary not exceeding ten years, or be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars."

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 27, 1875.

Sec. 926. Whoever shall willfully and maliciously attempt to break or cut cut, alter or break, pull down or destroy, in any manner whatever, any levee or embankment on the Mississippi river, or any other navigable river of this State, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary not exceeding two years, and fined not exceeding three thousand dollars.

Penalty for

Orleans.

[Amended and re-enacted by No. 18. An Act to amend and re-enact sections 925, 926 and 927 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana. Approved March 27, 1875. (See section above.)

Sec. 927. Any person cutting, altering or breaking, without cutting levees, any authority, or aiding and abetting any person in the act of etc., in New cutting, altering or breaking, without proper authority, levees, canals, or other works made to protect the city of New Orleans from overflow, shall, on conviction, be condemned to suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years nor less than one year.

D. Sec. 8027.

[Amended and re-enacted by No. 18. An Act to amend and re-enact sections 925, 926 and 927 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana. Approved March 27, 1875. (See seetion above.)