, 1854-05-13
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY SATURDAY, MAY 49, 1854

| sec. JS. Every person VINO snail sci
any lottery tickets or share in any lottery
for the division of properly to be determined
by chance, or -sl4all make or draw any lot
terry, or scheme for division Of property
not authorized by law, on conviction thereo
shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five
hundred dollars
Sec. 90. Every person who shall dea
cards at the games called faro or monte, oil
other banking games or shall set up, keel
or exhibit an E-O, or roulette table or shut
/ file board, or any gaming table whatever
for the purposes of gaming, or shall have il
( his POSSESSION to Re used for such purpose.
any gambling device whatever shall on con
yicion be fined in any sum not exceeding
one Thousand dollars.
See 100. Every person who shall suffer
any gaming table, bank, or gambling device
\ prohibited in this chapter, to be Kept or eX'
hiJited, or used for the purpose Of gaming
| in any house, building, steamboat, raft, OF
other water crafts, lot, yard, or garden, to
him belonging or by him occupied, or oI
which he has the control, shall on convic'
ton thereof be fined in any sum not cX'
cecding five hundred dollars.
Sec. l0l. If the takcr up Of CStray prop
erty shall convert the same to his own use
before the title thereto shall vest in him
accordiag to law, or if he shall knowingly
and wilfully violate any Of the provisions oI
the law regulating the taking up Of estrays
such person so offending shall be lined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and
not less than double the value Of such es
tray properly.
See. lO2 Every person who shall in any
manner obStruct any public highway, turn
pike, plank road, or bridge, or ijure any
material used in the construction OF such
roads or bridge, shall ON conviction thereof
be fined in any sum not exceeding five hun
dred dollars.
Sec. 1903. Every master, mate or other
officer, or other person belonging to, or III
any charge of any vessel, who shall dis.
charge the ballast of such vessel into the
navigable portions or channels Of any oI
the bays, harbers or rivers within or border.
ing on this Territory, where the water is less
than ten fathoms deep, shall on conviction
thereof be fined any sum not exceeding one
thousand dollars.
Sec. l04. Every person who shall in any
manner obstruct the navigable portion ol
channel of any bay, harbor or river, oI
stream within or bordering upon this Terri
tory, navigable and generally used for the
navigation Of vessels, boats or other water
crafts, or for the floating down of logs
shall on conviction thereof be fined in any
sum not exceeding five hundred dollars
provided that the placing Of ANY mill-dam
or boom across stream used for floating
saw logs, shall not be construed TO be al
obstruction to the navigation Of such stream
| il the same shall be so constructed rs tC
allow the passage Of boats or logs without
unreasonable delay.
Sec. l05. II any auditor, treasurer, sher
il, assessor or county commissioner, shal
purchase, exchange or receive in payment
during his term of Office, any territorial oil
county order, or demand, for less than The
amount OF such order or demand, on cenyic
lion thereof he shall he fined in any sum no
exceeding one thousand dollars.
See. l06 If any supervisor Of roads fai
to keep his highways and bridges in hi
road district, in as good repair as the avail
able labor or other means Of such distric
will enable him TO do, or fail TO discharg'
any other duty required Of him by law, HI
shall on conviction thereof be fined in AM
sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, ant
upon prosecution for neglecting to keep I
highway in good repair, it sfallbe suflicien
to prove that such highway is commonly re
putcd as such
Sec. l07. Ifany clerk Of district court
or any other person, shall be guilty Of an,
fraud, either by practcing on a jury box
previously to draft, or in changing juror
or in any way in the drawing of jurors, h
shall upon conviction thereof be fined il
any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars
Sec. l0S. If any ferry-man, frrry-owner
Gerry-keeper or keeper Of toll bridge, o
toll gate, himself or by any person in hi
employment, shall demand or receive an,
greater fees, on account of ferriagc, or toll
t4ihn is or may be fixed by law, or by tn
proper board doing county business, as tn
rates OF ferriage or toll to be received b,
such person, upon conviction he shall b
fined in any sum not exceeding one hundret
dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jai
not exceeding one MONTH
See. lO9. Any person authorized by tn
, laws of this Territory to join parties il
marriage, who shall knowingly join in maj
riage any parties contrary to the provision
of the law regulating marriages, shall o
conviction thereof be fined in any sum nc
, exceeding one thousand dollars.
Sec. llO. Any person having joined pal
ties in marriage, who shall fail to retur
a certificate thereof within the time pre-
t scribed by law, shall be fined in any SUI
not exceeding three hundred dollars.
Sec. Ill. Every person who shall under
! take to join parties in marriage, KNOWN
that he is not authorized so to do, sha
upon conviction thereof be imprisoned i
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