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§§ 7455-7460 a person to a like passage are usually sold by the proprietors of such conveyance, shall be deemed the value of such ticket.

§ 7455. Value. Securities never issued. All the provisious of this chapter shall apply when the property taken is an instrument for the payment of money, evidence of debt, public security or passage ticket, completed and ready to be issued or delivered, though the same has never been issued or delivered by the makers thereof to any person as a purchaser or owner.

§ 7456. Larceny of part of realty. All the provisions of this chapter shall apply when the thing taken is any fixture or part of the realty, and is severed at the time of the taking in the same manner as if such thing had been severed by another person previous time.

§ 7457. Larceny of wrecked goods. Every person who takes away any goods from any stranded or wrecked steamboat or other vessel, or any goods floating on the water. or goods cast by the water upon the shore. or goods lodged upon drifts, snags or other obstructions in a water course, or goods found in any creek, or who knowingly becomes possessed of any such, and does not deliver the same within forty-eight hours thereafter. to the sheriff or the coroner of the county where the same is found, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7458. Buying or receiving stolen property. Every person who buys or receives, in any manner, upon any consideration, any personal property of any value whatsoever, that has been stolen from any other, knowing the same to have been stolen, is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one and not exceeding five years, or in the county jail not exceeding six months. or by a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both: such fine and imprisonment.

§ 7459. Fraudulent consumption of gas. Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes or causes to be made, any pipe or other instrument or contrivance, and connects the same or causes it to be connected, with any pipe laid for conducting illuminating gas, so as to conduct gas to a point where the same may be consumer without its passing through the meter provided for registering the quantity consumed, or in any other manner so as to evade paying therefor, and every person who with like intent injures or alters any gas meter or obstructs its action, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7460. Stealing without, and bringing into state. Every person who steals the property of another in any other state or country, and brings the same into this state, may be convicted and punished in the same manner as if such larceny had been committed in this state: and such larceny may be charged to have been committed in any county into or through which such stolen property has been brought 1312