846
Injuries to electric or magnetic telegraphs.
Attempts to injure such telegraphs.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1865.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
way or canal, passing over, or under the same, or any part thereof, dangerous or impassable, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
Injuries to Telegraphs:-
27. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, throw down, destroy, injure, or remove 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 shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or obstruct in any manner whatsoever the sending, conveyance, or delivery of any communication by any such telegraph, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if it shall appear to a Police 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 information, the Magistrate may proceed summarily to hear and determine the same, and the offender shall, on conviction thereof, at the discretion of the Magistrate, either be committed to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding fifty dollars as to the Magistrate shall seem meet.
28. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously, by any overt act, attempt to commit any of the offences in the last preceding section mentioned, shall, on conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate, at the discretion of the Magistrate, either be committed to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding fifty dollars as to the Magistrate shall seem meet.
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846
Injuries to electric or magnetic telegraphs.
Attempts to injure such telegraphs.
ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1865.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
way or canal, passing over, or under the same, or any part thereof, dangerous or impassable, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
Injuries to Telegraphs:-
27. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut, break, throw down, destroy, injure, or remove 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 shall unlawfully and maliciously prevent or obstruct in any manner whatsoever the sending, conveyance, or delivery of any commu- nication by any such telegraph, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour: Provided that if it shall appear to a Police 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 information, the Magistrate may proceed summarily to hear and determine the same, and the offender shall, on conviction thereof, at the discretion of the Magistrate, either be committed to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding fifty dollars as to the Magistrate shall seem meet.
28. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously, by any overt act, attempt to commit any of the offences in the last preceding section men- tioned, shall, on conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate, at the discretion of the Magistrate, either be committed to the common gaol, there to be imprisoned only, or to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months, or else shall forfeit and pay such sum of money not exceeding fifty dollars as to the Magistrate shall
seem meet.
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