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Sale of Intoxicating Liquors. such report, certificate, or certified copy, with intent to prevent its delivery, or who wilfully 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 years.

§ 6908. Every person who wilfully opens or reads, or causes to be 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 like authority publishes any letter, knowing it to have been opened in violation of this section or any part therof, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6909. Every person who discloses the contents of any telegraphic dispatch, or any part thereof addressed to another person, without the permission of such person, except upon the lawful order of a court or the judge thereof, to his loss, injury, or disgrace, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6910. Every person having in his possession any telegraphic dispatch addressed to another, maliciously secretes, conceals or suppresses the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6911. Every person who wilfully 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.

§ 6912. Every person who maliciously cuts, tears, disfigures, soils, obliterates, breaks or destroys any book, map, chart, picture, engraving, statue, coin, model, apparatus, specimen or other work of literature or art, or object of curiosity deposited in any public library, gallery, museum, collection, fair or exhibition, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison for not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6913. Every person who wilfully breaks, digs up or obstructs, any pipe or main for conducting gas or water, any works erected for supplying buildings with gas or water, or any appurtenances or appendages therewith connected, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6914. Every officer or other person whose duty it is made by law to grant license to sell intoxicating liquors, or any one who grants any such license contrary to the provisions of the political code, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6915. Every person who shall give, barter, sell, or in any manner dispose of any intoxicating liquor to any Indian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6916. Every person being found intoxicated in any public place, is punishable, upon conviction before a justice of the peace, by a fine of ten dollars.