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Public Health and Safety.
PENAL CODE.
§§ 7312-7318

sale or gives or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7312. Carrying or using slung shot. Every person who carries upon his person, whether concealed or not, or uses or attempts to use against another, any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as slung shot, or of any similar kind, is guilty of a felony.

§ 7313. Carrying concealed weapons. Every person who carries concealed about his person any description of firearms, being loaded or partly loaded, or any sharp or dangerous weapon, such as is usually employed in attack or defense of the person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7314. Willfully firing prairies and marshes. Every person who shall willfully set on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any woods, marshes or prairies, with intention to injure the property of another, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable for all damages done by such fire.

§ 7315. Negligently firing same. Every person who negligently or carelessly sets on fire or causes to be set on fire, any woods, marshes or prairies, or who, having set the same on fire or caused it to be done, negligently or carelessly or without full precaution or efforts to prevent, permits it to spread beyond his control, shall, upon conviction, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars, and shall be liable to injured parties for all damages occasioned thereby. One-half of such fine shall, when collected, go to the informer.

§ 7316. Refusing to aid at fires. Every person who, at any burning of a building, is guilty of any disobedience to lawful orders of any public officer or fireman, or of any resistance to or interference with the lawful efforts of any fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the same, or of any disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the same from being extinguished, or who forbids, prevents or dissuades others from assisting to extinguish the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7317. Unlicensed ferry. Every person who maintains any ferry for profit or hire upon any waters within this state, without having first obtained a license as provided by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor. And any license or lease granted by the board of county commissioners of the proper county shall be exclusive to the lessee or licensee for a distance of two iniles from the place where euch ferry is located, up and down such stream either way; and any person who shall ferry, transport or carry or attempt to ferry, transport or carry any passengers, goods, chattels or merchandise, or who shall have, keep or maintain any scow, skiff or boat for the purpose of ferrying, transporting or carrying any passengers, goods, chattels or merchandise upon any water of this state within a distance of two miles of any licensed ferry, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and may be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, or by both fine and imprisonment; when such ferry is upon waters dividing two counties, the offenders may be prosecuted in either county.

§ 7318. Violating ferry bond. Every person who, having entered into a bond or obligation, as provided by his ferry charter or any general law on the subject of ferries, to keep and attend a ferry,1293