Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1881 — New Criminal Code. [ARTICLE]

New Criminal Code.

The following are a few sections of the new criminal code that will be found of general interest: Sec. 64. Whoever removes, destroys, cuts or girdles any shade tree, or carries off or removes or in anywise injures the protecting box of any shade tree, in any city, town or village of this state, shall be fined in any sum not more than fifty dollars nor less than three dollars; but this section shall not be so construed as-to prevent any owner of grounds from making any necessary alterations in the walks or trees on the same. > Sec. 68. Whoever paints, prints, pastes, stencils, or otherwise marks upon, or in any manner places upon or affixes to any building, fence, wall or tree, without the consent of the owner thereof, any word, letter, character, figure, sentence or device, or any hand-bill or notice, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less than five dollars; but this section shall not apply to the posting of any hand-bill or notice of any public sale of projierty by any sheriff, administrator, executor, guardian, or licensed auctioneer, or to any notice required by law to be posted. Sec. 82. Every person, not being a traveler, who shall wear or carry any dirk, pistol, bowie-knife, dagger, sword in cane, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, concealed, or who shall carry or wear any such weapon openly, with the intent or avowed purpose of injuring his fellow man, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. } Sec. 94. Whoever, being over fourteen years of age, profanely curses, swears, avers, or imprecates by, or in the name God, Jesus Christ, or the Holy Ghost, is guilty of profanity, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than three dollars nor less than one dollar for each offense.

Sec. 169. Whoever keeps a place where intoxicating liquors are sold, bartered, given away or suffered to b§ drank, in a disorderly manner, to the annoyance or injury of any part of the citizens or this state, shall be fined for every day the same is so kept, not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars. Sec. 182- If any person owning or having the care, management or control of any billiard table or tables, pool table or any kind of gaming table, bagatelle table or pigeon-hole table, kept in any saloon, hotel or public place, shall allow, suffer or permit minors to congregate at, in such place where such billiard table or tables, pool or any kind of gaming table, bagatelle table or table may be kept, he shall for each offense be fined in any, sum not more than fifty dollars nor less than five dollars. Sec. 187. Whoever, directly or indirectly, sells, barters or gives away any spirituous, vinous, malt qt Other intoxicating liquors to any under the age of twenty-one years, shall be fined in any sum not more than one hundred dollars nor less than twenty dollars.