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§§ 7629-7634 CHAPTER 65.

SPECULATION IN OFFICE.

§ 7629. Unlawful purchases by state treasurer. Every person who while treasurer of this state, or the deputy or clerk of such treasurer, directly or indirectly, buys or traffics in or in anywise becomes a party to the purchase of any state warrant, order or scrip, or any bill, account, claim or evidence of indebtedness against the state, for any sum less than the full face value thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding five hundred dollars.

§ 7630. Unlawful purchases by city treasurer. Every person who while treasurer of any city of this state, or the deputy or clerk of such treasurer, directly or indirectly, buys or traffics in or in anywise becomes a party to the purchase of any city warrant, order or scrip, or any bill, account, claim or evidence of indebtedness against his city, for any sum less than the full face value thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding five hundred dollars.

§ 7631. Unlawful purchases by county officers. Every person who while an officer of any county of this state, or the deputy or clerk of such officer, directly or indirectly, buys or traffics in or in anywise becomes a party to the purchase of any county warrant, order or scrip), or any bilſ, account, claim or evidence of indebtedness of his county, for any sum less than the full face value thereof, is guilty of a misdemeaner, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding five hundred dollars.

§ 7632. Unlawful purchases by school district officers. Every person who while an officer of any school district or corporation, or deputy or clerk of such officer, directly or indirectly. buys or traffics in or in anywise becomes a party to the purchase of any school warrant, order or scrip, or any bill, account, claim or evidence of indebtedness against his school district or corporation, for any sum less than the full face value thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof is punishable by a fine of not less than fifty and not exceeding five hundred dollars.

§ 7633. Jurisdiction of justice of the peace. Any justice of the peace within his county shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the district court to hear, try and determine any prosecution arising under the provisions of the last four sections, and upon conviction to impose the punishment prescribed, subject to defendant's right to appeal to the district court as provided by law.

§ 7634. State's attorney acting contrary to official duty. Every state's attorney who shall receive any fee or reward from or on behalf of any prosecutor or other individual for services or on account of any prosecution or business to which it shall be his official duty to attend, or who shall be concerned as attorney or counsel for either party other than the state or county, in any civil action depending on the same state of farts, or arising out of said facts or any of them, upon which a criminal prosecution commenced but undetermined shall depend, is guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon conviction thereof,

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