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3. Unlawfully interferes with, obstructs, or tends to obstruct any lake, or any navigable river, bay, stream, canal or basin, or any public park, square, street or highway; or,

4. In any way renders life, or the use of property uncomfortable.

Sec. 431. An act which affects a considerable number of persons, in either of the ways specified in the last section, is not less a nuisance because the extent of the damage is unequal.

Sec. 432. Every person who maintains or commits any public nuisance, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who willfully omits to perform any legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 433. Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder or saltpeter within any city or village, and every person who carries gunpowder through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner such as is prohibited by law, or by any ordinance of such city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 434. Every person who throws or deposits any gas tar, or refuse of any gas house or factory, into any public waters, river or stream, or into any sewer or stream emptying into any such public waters, river or stream, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 435. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visitation by the health officer, by the provisions of any law of this territory, now in force or that hereafter may be enacted, arrives in any port or at the boat landing of any city or town in this territory, who refuses or omits, either:

1. To proceed with and anchor or land his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, at the time of his arrival; or,

2. To submit his vessel, cargo and passengers, to the examination of the health officer, and to furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine to what length of quarantine and other regulations they ought respectively to be subject; or,

3. To remain with his vessel at quarantine during the period