a sale thereof, shall exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars, such price or prices shall be deemed the value of such ticket or tickets, and the offense of stealing, taking and carrying away the same shall be adjudged grand larceny, and the person convicted of the same shall be imprisoned in a State prison for a term not exceeding five years; but if such price or prices shall only amount to twenty-five dollars or under, the offense of stealing, taking and carrying away such ticket or tickets shall be adjudged guilty of petit larceny, and the person convicted of the same shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

What are railroad tickets.

§ 3. Railroad passenger tickets of any railroad company, as well before the same shall have been issued to its receivers or other agents for sale as after, and whether indorsed by such receivers or other agents or not, are to be deemed railroad tickets within the meaning of this act.

Forged tickets; punishment.

§ 4. Every person who shall be convicted of having forged, counterfeited or falsely altered any railroad ticket mentioned or referred to in either of the preceding sections of this act, or of having sold, exchanged or delivered for any consideration, any such forged or counterfeited railroad ticket, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with intent to injure or defraud, or of having offered any such forged or counterfeited railroad ticket for sale, exchange or delivery, for any consideration, with the like knowledge and intent, or of having received any such forged or counterfeited railroad ticket upon a sale, exchange or delivery, for any consideration, with the like knowledge and intent, shall be adjudged guilty of forgery in the third degree, and shall be punished in like manner as is prescribed by law in cases of conviction of forgery in the third degree.

Id.; penalty.

5. Every person who shall have in his possession any such forged or counterfeited railroad ticket as mentioned or referred to in the next preceding section, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered, with intention to injure or defraud by uttering the same as true or false, or by causing the same to be uttered, or by the use of the same to procure a passage in the cars of the railroad company by which such ticket purports to have been issued, shall be subject to the punishment provided by law for forgery in the fourth degree.

CHAP. 346, LAWS OF 1848.

AN ACT to dispose of certain vacant and unoccupied lands belonging to the Onondaga Salt Springs reservation, and for other purposes. Provisions respecting railroad companies.

§ 7. Whenever it shall be necessary for any railroad company to occupy any of the salt lands belonging to this State, for the use of their road, the same shall be appraised in the manner provided for in the second section of this act, and when they shall pay into the treasury of this State the appraised value, they shall become possessed of the same, to the same extent as by their charter they are authorized to become possessed of lands belonging to individuals.

Article VIII, section 1 of the Constitution of the State of New York. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes, and in cases where, in the judgment of the Legislature, the objects of the corporation cannot be attained under general laws. All general laws and special acts passed pursuant to this section may be altered from time to time or repealed.

Relative to powers of corporations applicable to railroad companies..

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