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§§ 6403-6409 a cause, or upon any inquest or other proceeding authorized by law.

3. Any breach of the peace, noise or other disturbance directly tending to interrupt the proceedings of any court.

4. Wilful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued by any court.

5. Resistance wilfully offered by any person to the lawful order or process of any court.

6. The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness; or, when so sworn, the like refusal to answer any material question,

7. The publication of a false or grossiy inaccurate report of the proceedings of any court. But no person can be punished, as for a contempt, in publishing a true, full and fair report of any trial, argument, decision or proceeding had in court.

§ 6403. Every attorney or counselor at law who, knowing that an application has been made for an order staying the trial of an indictment, to a judge authorized to grant the same, and has been denied, without leave reserved to renew it, makes an application to another judge to stay the same trial, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6404. Every grand juror who, with knowledge of a challenge, interposed against him by a defendant, has been allowed, is present at or takes part, or attempts to take part, in the consideration of the charge against the defendant who interposed the challenge, or the deliberations of the grand jury thereon, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6405. Every magistrate, or clerk of any magistrate, who wilfully permits any deposition taken on an information or examination of a defendant before such magistrate, and remaining in the custody of such magistrate or clerk, to be inspected by any person except a judge of a court having jurisdiction of the offense, the United States attorney, the district attorney of the district and his assistants, and the defendant and his counsel, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6406. Every clerk of any court who wilfully permits any deposition returned by any grand jury with a presentment made by them, and filed with such clerk, to be inspected by any person except the court, the deputies or assistants of such clerk, and the district attorney and his assistants, until after the arrest of the defendant, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6407. Every person who, having been called upon, by the lawful order of any court, to make a true exhibit of his real and personal effects, either:

1. Wilfully conceals any of his estate or effects, or any books or writing relative thereto; or,

2. Wilfully omits to disclose to the court any debts or demands which he has collected, or any transfer of his property which he had made after being ordered to make an exhibit thereof,

Is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6408. Every person concerned in any racing, running, or other trial of speed between any horses or other animals, within one-half mile of the place where any court is actually sitting, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6409. Every person who sells any spirituous or intoxicating liquor within, or brings with intent to sell, or offer or expose for sale therein, any such liquor into, either: