Embezzlement or which may be hereafter chartered by this State, who shall knowof money in

etc.

banks, by pres- ingly and wilfully embezzle or convert to his own use, or shall knowident, cashier, ingly 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 years nor less than one year.

Disorderly houses.

Keepers of tav

D. sec. 1056; 33 A. 1291; 32 A. 565.

OFFENCES 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 boarding-house erns, etc., har shall knowingly receive, harbor, lodge or conceal any deserter from boring deserters from merchant any merchant vessel, he shall, on conviction, pay a fine of one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.

vessels.

D. sec. 1705.

SEC. 909. (Selling liquors to minors.)

Act Ex. S. 1877, p. 187, No. 116.

SEC. 910. Whoever shall keep a grog or tippling-shop, or retail Keeping grog spirituous liquors, without previously obtaining a license from the shop without license. 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.

D. sec. 1215.

SEC. 911. Whoever shall keep a banking-game or banking-house, Banking games at which money, or anything representing money, or any article of

and banking

houses.

posed of.

value shall be bet or hazarded, or shall aid or assist in keeping one, shall, on conviction, for the first offence, be fined not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, and on conviction of a second offence, 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; Act 1870, p. 31, No. 1; p. 38, No. 12.

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

SEC. 913. All persons engaged in gambling, where no current money

bones or other

of money.

is actually exhibited or employed, but where, in lieu thereof, pieces of Gambling with bone, or any other material or substance, being the representative of representatives 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.

Act 1870, p. 32, No. 1.

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

Act 1870, p. 32, No. 1.

SEC. 915. When any officer has good reason to believe that any person has weapons concealed about him, on proof thereof being made to any justice of the peace, by the oath of one or 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 security 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.

Carrying concealed weapons

water courses,

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

Penalty for charging for use of the river bank.

Placing obstructions, etc., on railroads.

thority, 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 offence; 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 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. This section shall not be applicable to corporations of cities and towns.

Act 1877, Ex. S., p. 123, No. 84.

SEC. 918. Whoever shall place any obstruction upon any railway within this State, with intent to hinder, or obstruct, or impede, 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 excceding five thousand dollars nor less than fifty dollars, at the discretion of the

court.

Act 1861, p. 100.

SEC. 919. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciousiy impair, or injure, Fine of $500 for or destroy any engine, or carriage, or car, or cut or destroy any ridge, injuring engines, etc. 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. SEC. 920. Whoever shall unlawfully and intentionally injure, molest or destroy any line of telegraph, the lines, posts, abutments, materials Penalty for in- or property belonging thereto; or who shall molest or interfere with, juring lines of telegraph. or in any way interrupt the use or operation of any line of telegraph, or part thereof, shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court.

send messages.

D. sec. 3762; Act 1855, p. 130.

SEC. 921. Any operator, clerk, director, messenger or other perTelegraphs.pen- son in the employ of any telegraph company having au office or alty for failing or refusing to station in this State, who shall refuse or omit to send or deliver any dispatch or message, on which the charges or fees 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 dis

patch 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 direetor, officer or stockholder of such company, or other person, over any dispatch or message previously offered for transmission; or who shall reveal, make use 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 offence is committed; and shall be answerable in damages to the party injured. For any subsequent offence the person so offending shall also be subject to imprisonment in the parish prison for a period of not more than three months.

D. sec. 405, 3761, 3763.

Not to transmit

tice.

SEC. 922. No operator or agent of any telegraph company shall be permitted to transmit any message which can in any way tend to de- messages tending to defeat feat the ends of justice, by preventing the apprehension of fugitives the ends of jusfrom justice, or by communicating such information as may enable persons charged with offences to escape. Auy 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.

nies to trans. mit certain dispatches.

failure to do so.

SEC. 923. All telegraph companies shall be bound, on application of any officer of this State or of the United States, in the event of Duty of teleany war, insurrection or resistance of public authority, or whenever graph compa it may be necessary for the prevention of 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 to transmit such communication, or shall Penalty for designedly alter or falsify 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 applications are made. D. sec. 697, 3761, Act 1855, p. 100.

SEC. 924. Whoever shall throw, or cause to be thrown or conveyed into any navigable stream, bay or lake, within this State, bagasse Throwing obfrom sugar mills, ballast from vessels, sinking timber of any kind, or any other matter of a nature to form an obstruction to its free navi- streams. bays gation; whoever shall fell or throw any tree, or any part thereof, or

structions in navigable

or lakes.

Breaking 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 intent, wilfully to obstruct the navigation or render it more difficult or dangerous, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars; provided, railroad and other incorporated road companies may, on consent of police juries of parishes where navigation terminates, and on consent of police juries of adjoining parishes interested, bridge, without a draw, such waters within ten miles of the terminus of high water navigation on water courses which cannot be navigated except at high water. (As reënacted by Act 1882, p. 109, No. 87.)

D. sec. 3027.

SEC. 925. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously cut, alter, break, pull down or destroy in any manner whatsoever any public or private cutting levees. 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 five thousand dollars. (As reënacted by Act 1875, No. 16, p. 49.)

Attempt to break or cut levees.

Penalty for cutting levees,

etc., in New Orleans.

SEC. 926. Whoever shall wilfully 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. (As reënacted by Act 1875, p. 49, No. 16.)

SEC. 927. Whoever shall wilfully and maliciously cut, alter or break, pull down or destroy, and whoever shall wilfully 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. (As reenacted by Act 1875, No. 16, p. 49. )

SEC. 928. It shall be the duty of the several district judges to give Duty of judges the preceding section specially in their charges to the grand jury at to charge grand juries. each term of their respective courts.

Disturbing peaceable assemblies.

SEC. 929. Whoever shall maliciously disturb, or cause any disturbance to be made, whereby any peaceable assembling of the people is disturbed, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding ten days; and for a second conviction the punishment shall be doubled.

Act 1873, p. 45, No. 7.