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Rh Sec. 456. Every person who negligently sets fire to his own woods, or negligently suffers any fire upon his own land to extend beyond the limits thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 457. Every person who violates any provision of any law of this territory, now in force or that may hereafter be enacted, relating to prairie fires or setting fire out on the prairie, besides the penalties and damages imposed by such law, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 458. Every person who, at any burning of a building is guilty of any disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or fireman, or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen, to extinguish the same, or of any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or who forbids, prevents or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 459. Every person who maintains any ferry for profit or hire upon any waters within this territory, without authority of law, is punishable by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each time of crossing or running such ferry. Where such ferry is upon waters dividing two counties, the offender may be prosecuted in either.

Sec. 460. Every person, who, having entered into a bond or obligation, as provided by his ferry charter, or any general law on the subject of ferries, to keep and attend a ferry, violates the condition of such bond or obligation, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 461. Every person in charge, as engineer, of a locomotive engine, who omits to cause a bell to ring or a steam whistle to sound at the distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the track crosses, on the same level, any traveled public way, is punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days.

Sec. 462. Every person who, while in charge, as engineer, of a locomotive engine or while acting as conductor or driver upon a railroad train or car, whether propelled by steam or drawn by horses, is intoxicated, is guilty of a misdemeanor.