FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. lll. Ch. 429. 1899. 127 7 . than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than five nor more than twenty-five days, or by both line and imprisonment. Sec. 162. That if any person shall inoculate himself or suffer himself Sv¤·¤¤<¤¤g d¤¤s·>r— to be moculated, or shall inoculate another, with the smallpox or any °“° °”°°*s°‘ other malignant or infectious disease, within said District, or, being so inoculated, shall come within said District with the intent to cause the prevalence or spread of such disease within said District, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years. Sec. 163. That if any person shall sell or deliver any arsenic, corrosive semi. poison withsubhmate, prussic acid, or other poison, without having the word °""°*’°€
- •po1son" and the true name thereof in English written or printed upon
a label attached to the vial, box, or parcel containing the same, such person, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a iine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. CHAPTER ELEVEN. OFFENSES CONCERNING THE TELBGRAPH, TELEPHONE, AND so FORTH. Sec. Sec. f V 164. Refusingtotransmitofficial dispatch I 169. Delaying or refusing to send dis- _ in time of war, and so forth. patch. 165. Malicious injury to telegraph. 170. Opening or obtaining dispatch in- 166. Divulging or altering dispatch. tended for another. 167. Sending or delivering false dispatch. | 171. Taking infomation from wire, and 168. Using infomation contained in dis- l so forth. patch. I 172. Bribing operator to_diecloee private IROSBSQO. Sec. 164. That every telegraph company shall be bound, on applica- Refnmaflm mums:. tion of any officer of said District or of the United States, in case of ;T,‘2‘{,‘,,,,}{,f" *" any war, insurrection, riot, or other civil commotion or resistance of . public authority, for the prevention and punishment of crime, or for the arrest of persons suspected or charged therewith, to give to the communications of such officers immediate dispatch, at the price of ordinary communications of the same length; and if any officer, agent, operator, or employee of any such company shall refuse or willfully omit to transmit such communications as aforesaid, or shall designedly » alter or talsify the same, for any purpose whatever, the person so offending shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction may be lined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned in jail not more than twelve months or both, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 165. That if any person shall willfully and maliciously cnt, mf:·lrj_¢*:¤·¤ l¤J¤r>· tv break, or throw down any pole or any tree or other obiect used in an y K P ` line of telegraph, telephone, or system for the transmission of light or power by use of electricity, or shall willfully and maliciously break, displace, or injure any insulator in use in any such_l1ne, or shall willfully and maliciously cut, break, or remove from IGS insulators any wire used for any of the purposes above enumerated, or shall, by the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully and maliciously destroy the insulation of such line, or interrupt the transmission of the electric current through the same, or shall in any other manner willfully and maliciously injure, molest, or de troy any property or materials appertaining to any such lme, or belonging any telegraph, telephone, electric light or power company, or shall willfully and maliciously interfere with the use of any telegraph, telephone, electric light or power line, or obstruct or postpone the transmission of any message over any telegraph or telephone line, or procure or advise any such injury, interference, or obstruction, the person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by line not to exceed five hundred dollars,_or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such line and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, and shall moreover be liable to the company
