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198 Sec 499. Every public officer, being authorized to sell or lease any property, or make any contract in his official capacity, who voluntarily becomes interested individually in such sale, lease or contract, directly or indirectly, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 500. Every register of deeds, judge of probate, district attorney, county commissioner, sheriff, coroner or county superintendent of public instruction, who willfully fails or refuses to perform the duties of his office according to law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 501. Every person who willfully obstructs or hinders any public officer from collecting any revenue, taxes or other sums of money in which, or in any part of which the people of this territory are directly or indirectly interested, and which such officer is by law empowered to collect, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 502. The provisions of section 500 shall also apply to county treasurers, justices of the peace and all other county and precinct officers.

Sec. 503. Every territorial auditor, territorial treasurer, superintendent of public instruction for this territory, or any other territorial officer, who willfully neglects or refuses to perform the duties of his office, as prescribed by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 504. No auctioneer, in any town or county of this territory shall at one time have more than one place for carrying on the general business of an auctioneer.

Sec. 505. No such auctioneer shall expose to sale by public auction any articles liable to auction duties at any other place than that so designated, except goods sold in original packages as imported pictures, household furniture, libraries, stationery and such bulky articles as have usually been sold in warehouses, or in the public streets or on the wharves.

Sec. 507. A violation of either of the last two sections is punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each offense.

Sec. 508. Every person carrying on, interested in or employ.