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76 Sec. 223. Every public officer who being authorized by law to make or give any certificate or other writing, knowingly makes and delivers as true any such certificate or writing containing any statement which he knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Section 224. Criminal conspiracies defined.

225. Conspiracies against the peace of the territory

226. Overt act, when necessary

Sec. 224. If two or more persons conspire, either:

1. To commit any crime; or,

2. Falsely and maliciously to indict another for any crime, or to procure another to be charged or arrested for any crime; or,

3. Falsely to move or maintain any suit, action or proceeding; or

4. To cheat and defraud any person of any property by any means which are in themselves criminal, or by any means which, if executed, would amount to a cheat or to obtaining money or property by false pretenses; or,

5. To commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for the perversion or obstruction of justice or the due administration of the laws.

They are guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 225. If two or more persons, being out of this Territory, conspire to commit any act against the peace of this Territory, the commission or attempted commission of which, within this Territory, would be treason against the Territory, they are punishable by imprisonment in the Territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

Sec. 226. No agreement except to commit a felony upon the person of another, or to commit arson or burglary amounts to a conspiracy, unless some act beside such agreement be done to effect the object thereof, by one or more of the parties to such agreement.