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190 Sec. 715. Every person who maliciously mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys any written instrument being the property of another, the fulse making of which would be forgery, is punishable in the same manner as the forgery of such instrument is made punishable.

Sec. 716. Every messenger appointed by authority of law to receive and carry any report, certificate or certified copy of any statement relating to the result of any election, who willfully mutilates, tears, defaces, obliterates or destroys the same, or does any other act which prevents the delivery of it as required by law; and every person who takes away from such messenger any such report, certificate or certified copy, with intent to prevent its delivery, or who willfully does any injury or other act such as is above specified, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years, and not less than two.

Sec. 717. Every person who willfully opens or reads, or causes to be read any sealed letter not addressed to himself, without being authorized so to do, either by the writer of such letter, or by the person to whom it is addressed; and every person who without the like authority publishes any letter, knowing it to have been opened in violation of this section or any part, thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 718. Every person who discloses the contents of any telegraphic dispatch, or any part thereof, addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, to his loss, injury or disgrace, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 719. Every person having in his possession any telegraphic dispatch addressed to another, maliciously secretes, conceals or suppresses the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 720 Every person who willfully injures, disfigures or destroys, not being the owner thereof, any monument, work of art, or useful or ornamental improvement, within the limits of any village, town or city, or any shade tree or ornamental plant growing therein, whether situated upon private ground, or on any street, sidewalk or public park or place, is guilty of a misdemeanor.