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No. 6 of 1865.
Meaning
MALICIOUS DAMAGE.
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(3) For the purposes of this section, "railway" shall include "tramway".
Injury to electric or magnetic telegraph.
Injuries to telegraphs.
28.* Every person who unlawfully and maliciously-
(1) cuts, breaks, throws down, destroys, injures, or removes any battery, machinery, wire, cable, post, or other matter or thing whatsoever, being part of or being used or employed in or about any electric or magnetic telegraph or in the working thereof; or
24 & 25 Vict. c. 97, s. 37.
Attempt to injure electric or magnetic telegraph. 24 & 25 Vict.
(2) prevents or obstructs in any manner whatsoever the sending, conveyance, or delivery of any communication by any such telegraph,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years: Provided that if it appears to a magistrate, on the examination of any person charged with any offence against this section, that it is not expedient to the ends of justice that the same should be prosecuted by indictment, the magistrate may proceed summarily to hear and determine the same, and the offender shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
29. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously by any overt act attempts to commit any of the offences mentioned in section 28 shall upon summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 97, s. 38.
Injury to work of art in museum or public place:
24 & 25 Vict. [cf. No. 3 of 1903.] c. 97, s. 39.
Injuries to works of art.
30. Every person who unlawfully and maliciously destroys or damages―
(1) any book, manuscript, picture, print, statue, bust, or vase, or any other article or thing kept for the purposes of art, science, or literature, or as an object of curiosity, in any museum, gallery, cabinet, library, or other repository, which museum, gallery, cabinet, library, or other repository is either at all times or from time to time open for the admission
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