every person violating any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this act must be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which the conviction shall be had not less than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and all fines imposed and collected for any violations of the provisions of this act shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the "fish commission fund." En. February 14, 1872. Am'd. 1891, 93; 1903, 25. Cal.Rep.Cit. 135, 470. Acts relating to fishing and the protection of fish: See post, Appendix, title Fish. Fishway, act relating to: See post, Appendix, title Fish. § 637a. Destroying, etc., meadow larks, their nests and eggs. Every person who in the state of California shall at any time hunt, shoot, shoot at, pursue, take, kill, or destroy, buy, sell, give away, or have in his possession, except upon a written permit from the board of fish commissioners of the state of California for the purpose of propagation or for educational or scientific purposes, any meadow-lark or any part of the skin, skins or plumage thereof, or who shall rob the nest or take or destroy the eggs of any meadow-lark, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the killing of a meadow-lark by the owner or tenant of any premises where such bird is found destroying berries, fruits, or crops, growing on such premises. En. Stats. 1901, 573. $ €38. $639. § 640. § 641. $642. § 643. CHAPTER II. OF OTHER AND MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES. Neglect or postponement of telegraphic messages. Collecting tolls, etc., at San Francisco, without authority. Harboring deserting seamen. Aiding apprentices to run away or harboring them. § 644. § 645. § 646. § 647. § 648. Issuing or circulating paper money. $ €49. § 650. § 651. Officers of fire department issuing false certificates. § 6502. Seriously injuring persons or property, etc., a misdemeanor. § 652. § 653. § 6532. Appraiser accepting fees not allowed. § 654. Abuse of school teachers. § 638. Neglect or postponement of telegraphic messages. Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph office, who willfully refuses or neglects to send any message received at such office for transmission, or willfully postpones the same out of its order, or willfully refuses or neglects to deliver any message received by telegraph, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to require any message to be received, transmitted, or delivered, unless the charges thereon have been paid or tendered, nor to require the sending, receiving, or delivery of any message counseling, aiding, abetting, or encouraging treason against the government of the United States or of this state, or other resistance to the lawful authority, or any message calculated to further any fraudulent plan or purpose, or to instigate or encourage the perpetration of any unlawful act, or to facilitate the escape of any criminal or person accused of crime. En. February 14, 1872. 1 Carriers of messages: 2207. See Civ. Code, secs. 2161, 2162, § 639. Employee using information from messages. Every agent, operator, or employee of any telegraph office, who in any way uses or appropriates any information derived by him from any private message passing through his hands, and addressed to any other person, or in any other manner acquired by him by reason of his trust as such agent, operator, or employee, or trades or speculates upon any such information so obtained, or in any manner turns, or attempts to turn, the same to his own account, profit, or advantage, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding five years, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. En. February 14, 1872. § 640. Clandestinely learning the contents of a telegram. Every person who by means of any machine, instrument, or contrivance, or in any other manner, willfully and fraudulently reads, or attempts to read, any message, or to learn the contents thereof, whilst the same is being sent over any telegraph line, or willfully and fraudulently, or clandestinely, learns or attempts to learn the contents or meaning of any message, while the same is in any telegraph office, or is being received thereat or sent therefrom, or who uses or attempts to use, or communicates to others, any information so obtained, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and thirtynine. En. February 14, 1872. § 641. Bribing telegraph operator. Every person who, by the payment or promise of any bribe, inducement, or reward, procures or attempts to procure any telegraph agent, operator, or employee to disclose any private message, or the contents, purport, substance, or meaning thereof, or offers to any such agent, operator, or employee any bribe, compensation, or reward for the disclosure of any private information received by him by reason of his trust as such agent, operator, or employee, or uses or attempts to use any such information so obtained, is punishable as provided in section six hundred and thirty-nine. En. February 14, 1872. Cal.Rep.Cit. 61, 622. § 642. Collecting tolls, etc., at San Francisco, without authority. Every person who collects any toll, wharfage, or dockage, or lands, ships, or removes any property upon or from any portion of the water-front of San Francisco, or from or upon any of the wharves, piers, or landings under the control of the board of state harbor commissioners, without being by such board authorized so to do, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Cal.Rep.Cit. 71, 7. Wharfage: See Pol. Code, secs. 2527, 2582. $643. Violations of police regulations of San Francisco Harbor. Every person who violates any of the provisions of the laws of this state relating to sailor boarding-houses and shipping-offices in San Francisco, or who receives any gratuity or reward other than as therein provided, for the performance of any services under a license issued pursuant to the provisions of such laws, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Cal.Rep.Cit. 71, 7. § 644. Enticing seamen to desert. Every person who entices seamen to desert from any vessel lying in the waters of this state, and on board of which they have shipped for a term or voyage unexpired at the time of such enticement, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 645. harbors Harboring deserting seamen. Every person who or secretes any seaman, knowing him to be shipped, and with a view to persuade or enable him to desert, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. § 646. them. Aiding apprentices to run away or harboring Every person who willfully and knowingly aids, assists, or encourages to run away, or who harbors or conceals any person bound or held to service or labor, is guilty of a misdemeanor. En. February 14, 1872. Apprentices: Civ. Code, secs. 264 et seq, and Appendix to Civ. Code, title Apprentices. § 647. Vagrants. 1. Every person (except a California Indian) without visible means of living who has the physical ability to work, and who does not seek employment, nor labor when employment is offered him; or 2. Every healthy beggar who solicits alms as a business; or 3. Every person who roams about from place to place without any lawful business; or 4. Every person known to be a pickpocket, thief, burglar, or confidence operator, either by his own confession, or by his having been convicted of either of such offenses, and having no visible or lawful means of support, when found loitering around any steamboat landing, railroad depot, banking institution, brokers' office, place of amusement, auction room, store, shop, or crowded thoroughfare, car, or omnibus, or at any public gathering or assembly; or 5. Every idle, or lewd, or dissolute person, or associate of known thieves; or 6. Every person who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night, without any visible or lawful business; or 7. Every person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, vessel, or place other than such as is kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or party entitled to the possession thereof; or 8. Every person who lives in and about houses of illfame; or 9. Every person who acts as a runner or capper for attorneys in and about police courts or city prisons; or |