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§§ 7666-7671
PENAL CODE.
Miscellaneous Crimes.

$ 7666. Hours for labor for woman or child. Every owner. stockholder, overseer, employer, clerk or foreman, of any manufactory. workshop or other place used for mechanical or manufacturing purposes, who, having control, shall compel any woman or any child under eighteen years of age, or permit any child under fourteen years of age, to labor in any day exceeding ten hours, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred and not less than ten dollars. 8.7667. Harboring Indians. Every person who shall harbor or keep on or about his premises or place of abode, within any organized county in this state, any Indian or Indians who have not adopted the manners and habits of civilized life, or who induces or encourages any such Indian or Indians to cam remain or hunt fur any time or for any purpose within any village or settlement of white people, or in the vicinity of such village or settlement within any organized county in this state, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than twenty- five dollars for each Indian so kept, harbored or induced to remain. and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid: provided. the aggregate of such fine upon each conviction, shall not exceed one: hundred dollars. § 7668. Removing or destroying chattels subject to lien. Every person having in his possession or under his control any, personal property upon which there is known to him to be a subsisting lien, either by operation of law or by contract, who willfully destroys, removes from the county, conceals, sells or in any manner disposes of otherwise than as prescribed by law, or materially injures such property or any part thereof, without the written consent of the then holder of such lien, is guilty of:

1. A misdemeanor, if the value of the property does not exceed five hundred dollars; or,

2. A felony, if the value of the property exceeds such sum.

§ 7669. Wrongful use of seed grain. Every person who having procured upon credit under the provisions of chapter 82 of the civil code, any seed to be sown or planted upon any designated tract or piece of land, either:

1. Uses the same or any part thereof for any other purpose; or,

2. Sows or plants the same or any part thereof upon any tract or piece of land other than that designated, without the written consent of the party who furnished such seed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7870. Injurious acts not expressly forbidden. Every person who willfully and wrongfully commits any act which grossly injures the person or property of another, or which grossly disturbs the public peace or health, or which openly outrages public decency, and is injurious to public morals, although no punishment is expressly prescribed therefor by this cole, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 7871. Unlawful obligations in writing. Every person who takes any obligation in writing for any lightning rod or any of its attachments, or for any patent right, or right claimed to be a patent right, or for which any stallion shall form the whole or any part of the consideration, shall before it is signed by the maker stamp or write in red ink across the face of such written obligation in plain legible writing or print the words "Given for a lightning rod." or "Given for a patent right," or "Given for a stallion," as the case, may require. Such obligation so stamped shall not be negotiable and

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