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yond the amount of loans and discounts which such corporation may legally make, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 654. Every officer, agent, teller, clerk or servant of any bank, banking association or savings bank, who knowingly overdraws his account with such bank, and thereby wrongfully obtains the money, notes or funds of such bank, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 655. Every director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly receives or possesses himself of any property of such corporation or association, otherwise than in payment of a just demand, and who, with intent to defraud, omits to make, or to cause or direct to be made, a full and true entry thereof, in the books or accounts of such corporation or association, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec 656. Every director, officer, agent or member of any corporation or joint stock association, who with intent to defraud, destroys, alters, mutilates or falsifies any of the books, papers, writings or securities belonging to such corporation or association, or makes or concurs in making any false entry, or omits or concurs in omitting to make any material entry in any book of accounts, or other record or document kept by such corporation or association, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years, and not 1988 than three, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding fire hundred dollars or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Sec. 657. Every director, officer or agent of any corporation or joint stock association, who knowingly concurs in making or publishes any written report, exhibit or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition, containing any material statement which is false, other than such as are mentioned in sections 646 and 617, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Sec. 658. Every officer or agent of any corporation having or keeping an office within this territory, who has in his custody or control any book, paper or document of such corporation, and who refuses to give to a stockholder or member of such corporation, lawfully demanding, during office hours, to in-