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Crimes Against the Public Health.

§ 6656. Every person who manufactures or causes to be manufactured, or sells or offers or keeps for sale, or gives or dis­poses of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6657. Every person who carries upon his person, whether concealed or not, or uses or attempts to use against another, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guilty of a felony.

§ 6658. Every person who carries concealed about his per­son any description of firearms, being loaded or partly loaded, or any sharp or dangerous weapon, such as is usually employed in attack or defense of the person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6659. Every person who shall wilfully set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, marshes or prairies, with in­tention to injure the property of another, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable for all damages done by such fire.

§ 6660. Every person who negligently or carelessly sets on fire, or causes to be set on fire, any woods, marshes or prairies, or who, having set the same on fire, or caused it to be done, negligently or carelessly, or without full precautio11 or efforts to prevent, permits it to spread beyond his control, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars, and shall be liable to injured parties for all damages occasioned thereby. One-half of such fine shall, when collected, go to the informer.

§ 6661. Every person who, at any burning of a building, is guilty of any disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or fireman, or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the same, or of any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or who forbids, prevents or dis­suades others from assisting to extinguish the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6662. Every person who maintains any ferry for profit or hire upon any waters within this territory, without having first obtained a license as provided by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor. And any license or lease granted by the board of county commis­sioners of the proper county shall be exclusive to the lessee or licensee for a distance of two miles from the place where such ferry is located, up and down such stream either way; and any person who shall ferry, transport or carry or attempt to ferry, transport or carry, any passengers, goods, chattels, or merchan­dise, or who shall have, keep, or maintain any scow, skiff, or boat for the purpose of ferrying, transporting, or carrying any passengers, goods, chattels, or merchandise upon any water of this territory, within a distance of two miles of any licensed ferry, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or thirty days' imprisonment in the county jail, or by both fine and imprisonment; when such ferry is upon waters dividing two counties, the offenders may be prose­cuted in either county.

§ 6663. Every person who, having entered into a bond or obligation, as provided by his ferry charter or any general law on the subject of ferries, to keep and attend a ferry, violates the condition of such bond or obligation is guilty of a misdemeanor.