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Rh Section 514. Willful injuries to the canals.

515. Drawing off water from the canals.

516. Canal officer accepting bribe to allow water to be drawn off from canals.

517. Giving bribe to canal officer to obtain consent to drawing off water.

518. Injuries to the salt works.

519. Seizing military stores belonging to the territory.

520. Making false statement in reference to taxes.

Sec. 497. Every public officer, and every deputy, or clerk, of any such officer, and every other person receiving any moneys on behalf of, or for account of the people of this Territory, or of any department of the government of this territory, or of any bureau or fund created by law, and in which the people of this territory, are directly or indirectly interested, who either:

1. Appropriates to his own use, or to the use of any person not entitled thereto, without authority of law, any money received by him as such officer, clerk or deputy, or otherwise, on behalf of the people of this territory or in which they are interested; or,

2. Knowingly keeps any false account or makes any false entry or erasure in any account of or relating to any moneys so received by him, on behalf of the people of this territory, or in which they are interested; or,

3. Fraudulently alters, falsifies, conceals, destroys or obliterates any such account; or,

4. Willfully omits or refuses to pay over to the people of this territory or their officer or agent authorized by law to receive the same, any money received by him under any duty imposed by law so to pay over the same,

Is guilty of a felony.

Sec. 498. Every officer or other person mentioned in the last section who willfully disobeys any provisions of law regulating his official conduct, in cases other than those specified in that section, is guilty of a misdemeanor.