other persons employed by him, or their rate of wages or time of service, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
§ 7662. Conspiracies and mobs against mines. In all cases when two or more persons shall associate themselves together for the purpose of obtaining possession of any lode, gulch or placer claim, then in the actual possession of another, by force and violence or by threats of violence, or by stealth, and shall proceed to carry out such purpose by making threats against the party or parties in possession, or who shall enter upon such lode or mining claim for the purpose aforesaid, or who shall enter upon or into any lode, gulch, placer claim or quartz mill or other mining property, or, not being upon such property but within hearing of the same, shall make any threats or make use of any language, sign or gesture calculated to intimidate any person or persons at work on said property from continuing work thereon or therein, or to intimidate others from engaging to work thereon or therein, every such person so offending, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months and not less than thirty days, and by fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, such fine to be discharged either by payment or by confinement in such jail until such fine is discharged at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day. On trials under this section, proof of a common purpose of two or more persons to obtain possession of property as aforesaid, or to intimidate laborers as above set forth, accompanied or followed by any of the acts above specified, by any of them, shall be sufficient evidence to convict any one committing such acts, although the parties may not be associated together at the time of committing the same.
§ 7663. Taking saw logs. Any person who shall willfully and without authority take any saw logs that may be on any river or on the land adjoining or near a river, which may have floated down said river or on to said land, and shall remove or attempt to remove the same, or who shall cut or split said logs or otherwise destroy or injure them, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, when the value of the logs exceeds one hundred dollars, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and by fine not to exceed one hundred and not less than ten dollars; and when the value of the logs is one hundred dollars or less, the punishment shall be by fine not exceeding eighty and not less than twenty dollars.
§ 7664. Receiving stolen logs. Any person who shall purchase, receive or secrete saw logs so taken or removed, or who shall cut or otherwise injure logs so taken or removed, knowing them to have been so taken or removed, shall be punished as prescribed in the preceding section.
§ 7665. Concealing estrays or lost goods. Any person who shall attempt to conceal any estray, or any lost goods, found or taken up by him, or shall efface any marks or brands thereon, or carry the same beyond the limits of the state, or knowingly permit the same to be done, or shall willfully fail to cause the same to be advertised, sold or otherwise dealt with as provided by the statute on estray and lost goods, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars, one-half to be paid to the informer and the other half into the county treasury.
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