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Rh has never been issued or delivered by the makers thereof to any person as a purchaser or owner.

Sec. 596. All the provisions of this chapter shall apply where the thing taken is any fixture or part of the realty, and is severed at the time of the taking, in the same manger as if such thing had been severed by another person at some previous time.

Sec. 597. Every person who takes away any goods from any stranded or wrecked steamboat or other vessel, or any good, floating on the water, or goods cast by the water upon the shore, or goods lodged upon drifts, snags or other obstructions in a water course, or goods found in any creek, or who knowingly becomes possessed of any such, and does not deliver the same, within forty-eight hours thereafter, to the sheriff or the coroner of the county where the same were found, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 598. Every person who buys or receives, in any manner, upon any consideration, any personal property of any value whatsoever, that has been stolen from any other, knowing the same to have been stolen, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 599. Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes or causes to be made and pipe or other instrument or contrivance, and connects the same, or causes it to be connected with any pipe laid for conducting illuminating gas, so as ta conduct gas to a point where the same may be consumed without its passing through the meter providing for registering the quantity consumed, or in any other manner so as to evade paying therefor, and every person who with like intent injuries or alters any gas meter, or obstructs its action, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 600. Every person who steals the property of another in any other state or country, and brings the same into this territory may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny had been committed in this territory; and such