Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-11-23
Qua NRw PENAL CODE-NEW
CHIMES AND NEW PUNIslI.
mRNTs- OHsOLETE OFTEN
sRs-THR WALKING WOMEN.
San FRANcIsco, Nov. 81, 1870.
Our New PeunI Code.

SuCH improvements oHN oiii'ot0'S Nv
the code as might be deemed expedient.
The first fruit of the commissioners
has Just issued from the State
printers Office in a volume Of 33l
pages, containing the proposed penal
code, tn. mode of procedure to be
adopted in criminal cases, and laws
affecting the State Prison and county
jails. The penal code-whlch will no
go into effects soon after the
meeting of the next Legisature-makes
many important additions to the Grim
inal law. Amongst others, l notice
one that is Of great interest to mining
officers and directors. The commits
sloners say: 1.-The almost absolute
power of directors over the property
of corporations, and the numerous
frauds that are perpetrated upon the
community, as we'll as upon share
holders, point the necessity for strln-
gent penal enactments."
Frauds BY Directers Of Cerporaiions.
The subject is therefore treated in a
comprehensive chapter Of fifteen Sec
tions, Of which the following is n
synopsis: Every director Of any stock
corporation who cOncurs in any vote
Of the directors Of such corporation by
which 1t Il intended ~ to declare any
dividend except from the surplus
profits arising from the business Of the
corporation; (2) to divide, withdraw
or in any manner pay to the stock
holders any part Of the capital stock
of the corporation; t3) to receive any
note or other evidence of debt in pay
ment Of subscription or assessments
or (5) to receive from any other corpo-
ration stock IN exchange for that Of
their own cOmpany-is guilty of mis-
demeanor. Every officer who know
ingly concurs In making a false report
of the company's affairs, or IN making
any material statement which Is false,
or who keeps Ill unjust account of the
company's affairs in books under Ills
charge, or who refuses TO permit a
stakeholder to inspect his books, is also
made guilty of mi ,demcanor. Every
dirt ctor, whether present or absent, at
a meeting, Is presumed to haye assented
{, the proceedings unless lie shortly
after spreads his written dissent upon
the minutes. Corporations formed In
another State, who have any office IN
California, are made amenable to the
provisions Of this act. The unautllor-
lied use Of names In any prospectus,
or the signing OF iiGtie'oIS ii'h'c, "
any agreemem. " LIN srm oVi oIso
pp,n,io ~miSi"noa,,or TI,is a,t fraud
is frequently practiced In the organiza-
ton OF Joint stock companies, and the
clause will meet a prominent evil.
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w"" a"I .ha C;,r p.nr, h,y
nerson who receives deposits in nm
insolyent bank Is to he deemed guilty
of a misdcmeanor, whether acting In
The capacity of proprietor, officer,
agent or clerk.
DruuRis,. 20 be Paui.hcd,
The frequent occurrence Of accidents,
often involving the loss of life, through
mistakes In putting up drugs, or
wrongly labelling the preparation, has
also ieee'Veu co, msha.t,ar .nn "h O "n'
.or.. ~ consen,,ances or not. r made
cr;"s,,I %oilenses.
"L.oE-reiltnE" ""de nm o"en'c'
Our Legislators receive = share oil
the Commissioner attention, and any
-orosn,apt m evchanoe yotes-known
i5 noiit;col i]sncuoCe rs loy-rollinp-
Is to be punished by Imprisonment In
the State Prison for any term not less
Ia nor more tiiaI fourteen years.
.s.'' q. John chin"m"n
or coming 10 eaiiior''ia, Is lequ''eu "
bring with him q certificate showing
that he Is a person of good moral char
acter aud desires voluntarily to enter
tIIe STATE: otherwise the person land
inc him viii be fined from 81, 900 to
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t"o "'0
ior msu'hce, as ''iUS' ,""s n
quell.iy "pp..' az "S
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,,ior.S hv ma,ent medicine vendors TO
min cre;lenee for cures effected BY
fhcir Compounds, is stopped by n clause
nroy;ding n nenalty for any pcrson
sJm}nisters nm oath. eSrept when
NV law or "A n nroof of n
or rs basis ofsomc Contract.
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