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180 Sec. 675. All offices kept for the purpose of selling passage tickets in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and all offices where any such sale is made, are deemed disorderly houses; and all persons keeping any such office, and all persons, associating together for 11:e purpose of violating any of the provisions of this chapter, are punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding six months, and not less than three months.

Sec. 676. The provisions of this chapter do not prevent the actual owners or consignees of any vessel, from selling passage tickets thereon; nor do they prevent the purser or clerk of any vessel or station master upon any railroad, or other ticket agent of any vessel or railroad, from selling in his office on board of such vessel, or in any station on such railroad, any passage tickets upon such vessel or railroad; nor do they prevent any conductor upon any railroad from selling any passage tickets upon the trains of such railroad.

Sec. 677. Whenever the departure of any vessel, for a passage on board of which, to a port without this territory, any ticket or instrument above mentioned has been sold, is delayed more than two days after the day of departure mentioned in such ticket, the person holding such ticket is entitled to his board and lodging in such vessel without any additional charge, from the second day after the day named for departure until the actual departure of such vessel; and is also entitled to receive from the owners or consignees of such vessel fifty cents per clay for each day of such detention. And in case of refusal on the part of the owners, consignees or master of the vessel so detained, to comply with this section, the person holding such ticket is entitled to recover back from the owners or consignees the amount of passage paid by him, together with his damages for such detention, not exceeding fiſty dollars.

Sec. 678. Every ticket or instrument issued as evidence of a right of passage upon the Missouri river, from any port in this territory, to any port of any other state or territory, and every certificate or order issued for the purpose, or under pretense of procuring any such ticket or instrument, and every receipt for money paid for any such ticket or instrument, must