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§§ 6271-6280 torial limits covered by such registry, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not less than one year.

§ 6271. Every person who, within any city, town, or election district in this territory in which a registry of qualified voters is by law authorized to be kept, falsely personates a registered voter, and in such personating offers to vote at any election, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not less than one year.

§ 6272. Every person who, at the time of requesting his name to be registered as that of a qualified voter, upon any registry of voters authorized by law to be kept in any city, town, or election district of this territory, or at the time of offering his vote at any election, knowingly makes any false statement or employs any false representation or false pretense or token, to procure his name to be registered, or his vote to be received, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6273. A false statement, representation or token, made or used in the presence and to the knowledge of a person requesting his name to be registered, or offering his vote, is to be deemed made by himself, if it appears that it was made or used in support of his claim to be registered or to vote, that he knew it to be false, and suffered it to pass uncontradicted.

§ 6274. Every person who wilfully disturbs or breaks up any public meeting of electors and others, lawfully being held for the purpose of considering public questions, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6275. Every person who, by threats, intimidations or unlawful violence, wilfully hinders or prevents electors from assembling in public meeting for the consideration of public questions, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6276. Every person who makes use of any force or violence, or of any threat to do any unlawful act, as a means of preventing an elector from attending any public meeting lawfully held for the purpose of considering any public questions, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6277. Every person who wilfully, by unlawful arrest, by force and violence, or by threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent an elector from freely giving his vote at any election, or employs either of such means to hinder him from voting, or to cause him to vote for any person or candidate, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and not less than fifty dollars.

§ 6278. Every person who procures or endeavors to procure the vote of any elector, or the influence of any person or other electors, at any election, for himself, or for or against any candidate, by means of violence, threats of violence, or threats of withdrawing custom or dealings in business or trade, or enforcing the payment of debts, or bringing a suit or criminal prosecution, or any other threat of injury, to be inflicted by him or by his means or procurement, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months.

§ 6279. Every person who wilfully disobeys a lawful command of a judge or board of judges of any election, given in the execution of their duty as such, at an election, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6280. Every person who is guilty of any riotous conduct, or who causes any disturbance or breach of the peace, or uses