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MiscllaneousMiscellaneous [sic] Crimes.

§ 6924. Every person who, by any use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent any hired foreman, journeyman, apprentice, workman, laborer, servant or other person employed by another, from continuing or performing his work, or from accepting any new work or employment, or to induce such hired person to relinquish his work or employment, or to return any work he has in hand, before it is finished, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6925. Every person who, by any use of force, threats or intimidation, prevents or endeavors to prevent another from employing any person, or to compel another to employ any person, or to force or induce another to alter his mode of carrying on business, or to limit or increase the number of his hired foremen, journeymen, apprentices, workmen, laborers, servants or other persons employed by him, or their rate of wages or time of service, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6926. In all cases where two or more persons shall associate themselves together for the purpose of obtaining possession of any lode, gulch or placer claim, then in the actual possession of another, by force and violence, or by threats of violence, or by stealth, and shall proceed to carry out such purpose by making threats against the party or parties in possession, or who shall enter upon such lode or mining claim for the purpose aforesaid, or who shall enter upon or into any lode, gulch, placer claim or quartz mill or other mining property, or, not being upon such property but within hearing of the same, shall make any threats or make use of any language, sign or gesture calculated to intimidate any person or persons at work on said property from continuing work thereon or therein, or to intimidate others from engaging to work thereon or therein, every such person so offending, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and not less than thirty days, and by fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, such fine to be discharged either by payment - confinement in such jail until such fine is discharged at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day. On trials under this section, proof of a common purpose of two or more persons to obtain possession of property as aforesaid, or to intimidate laborers as above set forth, accompanied or followed by any of the acts above specified, by any of them, shall be sufficient evidence to convict any one committing such acts, although the parties may not be associated together at the time of committing the same.

§ 6927. Any person who shall wilfully and without authority take any saw logs that may be on any river or on the land adjoining or near a river, which may have floated down said river, or on to said land, and shall remove or attempt to remove the same, or who shall cut or split said logs or otherwise destroy e injure them, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upou conviction, where the value of the logs exceeds one hundred dollars, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and by fine not to exceed one hundred and not less than ten dollars; and where the value of the logs is one hundred dollars or less, the punishment shall be by fine not exceeding eighty and not less than twenty dollars.

§ 6928. Any person who shall purchase, receive or secrete saw logs so taken or removed, or who shall cut or otherwise