formed for the purpose of shortening the tail, and whoever shall cause the same to be done, or assist in doing such cutting, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905-681.

599e. Every animal which is unfit, by reason of its physical condition, for the purpose for which such animals are usualy employed, and when there is no reasonable probability of such animal ever becoming fit for the purpose for which it is usually employed, shall be by the owner or lawful possessor of the same, deprived of life within twelve hours after being notified by any peaceofficer, or officer of said society, to kill the same, and such owner, possessor, or person omitting or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and after such conviction the court or magistrate having jurisdiction of such offense shall order any peaceofficer, or officer of said society, to immediately kill such animal; provided, that this shall not apply to such owner keeping any old or deceased animal belonging to him on his own premises with proper care. 1905-681.

599f. Every person who wilfully kills any elk, is guilty of a felony, and is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not exceeding two years and the possession of any elk meat shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this act.

1917-39.

600. Every person who willfuly and maliciously burns any bridge exceeding in value fifty dollars, or any structure, snowshed, vessel, or boat, not the subject of arson, or any tent, or any stack of hay or grain or straw of any kind, or any pile of baled hay or straw, or any pile of potatoes, or beans, or vegetables, or produce, or fruit of any kind, whether sacked, boxed, crated, or not, or any growing or standing grain, grass, or tree, or any fence, or any railroad car, lumber, cordwood, railroad ties, telegraph or telephone poles, or shakes, or any tule-land or peat-` ground of the value of twenty-five dollars or over, not the property of such person, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one year, nor more then ten years. 1905-711.

601. Any person who maliciously uses, puts, places, deposits, explodes, or attempts to explode, at, in, under, or near, or takes into or near any building, vessel, boat, railroad, tramroad, or cable road, or any train, or car, or any depot, stable, car-house, theatre, schoolhouse, church, dwelling-house, or other place where human beings usually inhabit, assemble, frequent, or pass and repass, any dynamite, nitro-glycerine, vigorite, giant or hercules powder, gunpowder, or other chemical compound or explosive, with the intent to injure or destroy such building, vessel, boat, or other structure; or with the intent to injure, intimidate, or terrify

any human being, or by means of which any human being is injured or endangered, is guilty of a felony, and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one year. 1913-350. 602. Every person who wilfully commits any trespass by either:

(a.) Cutting down, destroying, or injuring any kind of wood or timber standing or growing upon the lands of another;

(b.) Carrying away any kind of wood or timber lying on such lands;

(c.) Maliciously injuring or severing from the freehold of another anything attached thereto, or the produce thereof;

(d.) Digging, taking, or carrying away from any lot situated within the limits of any incorporated city, without the license of the owner or legal occupant thereof, any earth, soil, or stone;

(e.) Digging, taking, or carrying away from land in any city or town, laid down on the map or plan of such city, or otherwise recognized or established as a street, alley, avenue, or park, without the license of the proper authorities, any earth, soil or stone;

(f.) Maliciously tearing down, damaging, mutilating or destroying any sign, signboard or notice placed upon, or affixed to, any property belonging to the state, or to any city, county, city and county, town or village, by the state or by an automobile association, which sign, signboard or notice is intended to indicate or designate a road or roads, or a highway or highways, or is intended to direct travelers from one point to another; or putting up, affixing, fastening, printing, or painting upon any property belonging to the state, or to any city, county, town, or village, or dedicated to the public, or upon any property of any person, without license from the owner, any notice, advertisement, or designation of, or any name for any commodity, whether for sale or otherwise, or any picture, sign, or device intended to call attention thereto;

(g.) Entering upon any lands owned by any other person whereon oysters or other shellfish are planted or growing; or injuring, gathering, or carrying away any oysters or other shellfish planted, growing, or being on any such lands, whether covered by water or not, without the license of the owner or legal occupant thereof; or destroying or removing, or causing to be removed or destroyed, any stakes, marks, fences, or signs intended to designate the boundaries and limits of any such lands;

(h.) Wilfully opening, tearing down, or otherwise destroying any fence on the inclosed land of another, or opening any gate, bar, or fence of another and wilfully leaving it open without the permission of the owner, or maliciously tearing down, mutliating, or destroying any sign, signboard, or other notice forbidding shooting on private property; or

(i.) Entering any inclosure belonging to, or occupied by another, for the purpose of hunting, shooting, killing, or destroying any

kind of game within such inclosure, without having first obtained permission from the owner of such inclosure;

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1917-319.

604. Every person who maliciously injures or destroys any standing crops, grain, cultivated fruits or vegetables, the property of another, in any case for which a punishment is not otherwise prescribed by this code, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

605. Every person who either:

1. Maliciously removes any monument erected for the purpose of designating any point in the boundry of any lot or tract of land, or place where a subaqeous telegraph cable lies; or, 2. Maliciously defaces or alters the marks upon any such monument; or,

3. Maliciously cuts down or removes any tree upon which any such marks have been made for such purpose, with intent to destroy such marks;

-Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

606. Every person who willfully and intentionally breaks down, pulls down, or otherwise destroys or injures any public jail or other place of confinement, is punishable by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars, and by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years.

607. Every person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures, or destroys any bridge, dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, levee, embankment, reservoir, or other structure erected to create hydraulic power, or to drain or reclaim any swamp and overflowed tide or marsh land, or to store or conduct water for mining, manufacturing, reclamation, or agricultural purposes, or for the supply of the inhabitants of any city or town, or any embankment necessary to the same, or either of them, or willfully or maliciously makes, or causes to be made, any aperture in such dam, canal, flume, aqueduct, reservior, embankment, levee, or structure, with intent to injure or destroy the same; or draws up, cuts, or injures any piles fixed in the ground for the purpose of securing any sea-bank, or sea-walls, or any dock, quay, or jetty, lock, or sea-wall; or who, between the first day of October and the fifteenth day of April of each year, plows up or loosens the soil in the bed or on the sides of any natural water-course or channel, without removing such soil within twenty-four hours from such watercourse or channel; or who, between the fifteenth day of April and the first day of October of each year, shall plow up or loosen the soil in the bed or on the sides of such natural watercourse or channel, and shall not remove therefrom the soil so plowed up or loosened before the first day of October next thereafter, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, punishable by a fine not less than one hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or

by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding two years, or by both; provided, that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to in any manner prohibit any person from digging or removing soil from any such water course or channel, for the purpose of mining.

1880-36.

608. Every person who willfully and maliciously burns, injures, or destroys any pile or raft of wood, plank, boards, or other lunmber, or any part thereof, or cuts loose or sets adrift any such raft or part thereof, the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1907-853.

608a. Every person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, injures, sinks, or sets adrift any vessel of less than ten gross tons, the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1907

854.

608b. Every person who willfully and maliciously cuts, breaks, or injures any vessel of ten gross tons and upwards, the property of another, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1907-854.

608c. Every person who willfully and maliciously sinks or sets adrift any vessel of ten gross tons and upwards, the property of another, is guilty of a felony. 1907-854.

609. Any person who willfully removes, damages, or destroys any buoy or beacon placed in any waters within this state by lawful authority, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1905-689.

610. Every person who unlawfully masks, alters, or removes any light or signal, or willfully exhibits any light or signal, with intent to bring any vessel into danger, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than three nor more than ten years.

611. Every person who unlawfully obstructs the navigation of any navigable stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

612. Every person who throws, deposits, or permits another in his employ to throw or deposit, any sawdust, slabs, or refuse lumber, in any place where it may be carried or fall into the waters of Humboldt Bay, without first having constructed piers, bulkheads, dams, or other contrivances, approved by the board of supervisors of Humboldt County, to prevent the same from escaping into the channels of such bay, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

613. Every person who, within the anchorage of any port, harbor, or cove of this state, into which vessels may enter for the purpose of receiving or discharging cargo, throws overboard from any vesel the ballast, or any part thereof, or who otherwise places or causes to be placed in such port, harbor, or cove, any obstructions to the navigation thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

614. Every person mooring any vessel to or hanging on with a vessel to any buoy or beacon, placed by competent authority in any navigable waters of this state, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

615. Every person who willfully injures, defaces, or removes any signal, monument, building, or appurtenance thereto, placed, erected or used by persons engaged in the United States coast survey, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

616. Every person who intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears down, or destroys any copy or transcript, or extract from or of any law of the United States or of this state, or any proclamation, advertisement, or notification set up at any place in this state, by authority of any law of the United States or of this state, or by order of any court, before the expiration of the time for which the same was to remain set up, is punishable by fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one month.

617. Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates, or destroys any written instrument, the property of another, the false making of which would be forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not less than one nor more than five years.

618. Every person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read, any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter or by the person to whom it is addressed, and every person who, without the like authority, publishes any of the contents of such letter, knowing the same to have been unlawfully opened, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

619. Every person who willfully discloses the contents of a telegraphic or telephonic message, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, unless directed so to do by the lawful order of a court, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both fine and imprisonment. 1905-690.

620. Every person who willfully alters the purport, effect, or meaning of a telegraphic or telephonic message to the injury of another, is punishable as provided in the preceding section. 1905-690.

621. Every person not connected with any telegraph or telephone office who, without the authority or consent of the person to whom the same may be directed, willfuly opens any sealed envelope inclosing a telegraphic or telephonic message, addressed to another person, with the purpose of learning the contents of such message, or who fraudulently represents another person and thereby