St. Paul daily globe., 1895-05-21
No 11n s z NO. 491.

NO. HOS. +. NJ. 43I .o.>
AN ACT to amend section thirty-one t3l),
chapter thirty-two (32), General Statues
eighteen hundred and seventy 1ght (Ioio),
relating to stealing logs and injury TO
marks thereon. 49,,
Be it enacted by the Legislature OIL lhe
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That the General Statutes OF
| 1878, chapter 81, section 81, be amehueu 50
as to read as follows: -
or otherwise convert to his own use or sell
or dispose of, without the consent OF the
owner or owners any pile, log OF can
suitable to be worked into plank, D0afu,
ioist. shingles or other lumber, the property
of another, whether the owner thereon be
known or unknown, lying or being IN any
lake. bay or river in or bordering on TINS
state, or in any tributary OF such lake.
bay or river, or tributary, or IN or on any
slough, ravne, island, bottom or land ad-
joining any such lake, bay or river, or
tributary, such property being so taken,
carried away or otherwise converted or
sold or disposed of within this state, or
taken possession Of with intent to sell or
dispose of, as aforesaid or cuts out, mutt
lates, destroys or renders illeSible the
mark marks thereon, destroying the
ownership thereof, or in any manner viii
fully INJURIES any such logs not his own, or
places upon any such log or piece OF timber
any mark or device other than the original
mark. shall be deemed guilty OF the crime
of larceny, and on conviction thereof shall
be punished by fine of not less than ffty
dollars $3.50 and by imprisonment i'll the
county Jail not less than three months, and
on a second conviction for like crime shall
be punished by fine of not less than one
hundred dollars CS100l and by imprison-
ment in the state prison not more than
| two years.
Sec. =. Every person guilty of any of the
| offenSes described i'll this section shall
| when convicted thereof in criminal prose
! cutiOn or not be liable to pay the owner or
| owners of such pile, log, can't or other lum-
| Der respecting which the Offense is commit
! ted double the amount of the value of the
same, to be recovered in an action therefor.
Sec. .. In any prosecution under this act,
| if any such pile, log or cant shall be found
| in the possession Of the defendant, either
| with or without the mark cut out or de-
/ strOyed or partly cut out or destroyed. or
! partly sawed or manufactured into lumber
| of any kind fence posts, fence rails or
stove wood. such possession shall be pre-
sumptive evidence of his guilt The owner
! of any such pile, log, cant or other lumber
may at any time lawfully, by himself or
! his agent, enter i'll a peaceable manner
| into or upon any mill or mill boom or raft
! of logs, piles cant or other lumber. III any
| river or its tributaries within this state. or
i on or near the banks of such lakes. bays
! any such pile, log. cant or other lumber
) Which he may have lost. and any person
who shall wilfully prevent or obatruct such
| search shall, upon conviction thereof. he
/ liable to Il penalty of not less than twenty
/ dollars ($20) nor more than fifty dollars
! $500 for every such offense.
Sec. 4 This act shall take effect and be
| in force from and after its passage.
! Approved April %, 1853.