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Crimes Against Revenue.
PENAL CODE.
§§ 6694-6698

another, except in the cases and manner allowed by law, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Return to possession after lawful removal.
s. 493, Pen. C.

§ 6694. Every person who has been removed from any Returning to lands by process of law, or who has removed from any lands pursuant to the lawful adjudication or direction of any court, tribunal or officer, and who afterward, without authority of law, returns to settle or reside upon such lands, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Unlawful intrusion upon lands.
s. 494, Pen. C.

§ 6695. Every person who intrudes or squats upon any lot or piece of land within the bounds of any incorporated city or village, without license or authority from the owner thereof, or who erects or occupies thereon any hut, hovel, shanty, or other structure whatever, without such license or authority; and every person who places, erects or occupies within the bounds of any street or avenue of such city or village, any hut, hovel, shanty, or other structure whatever, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Discharge firearms in public place.
s. 495, Pen. C.

§ 6696. Every person who wilfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

Privilege of witnesses.
s. 496, Pen. C.

§ 6697. No person shall be excused from giving any evidence upon any investigation or prosecution for any of the offenses specified in this chapter, upon the ground that such testimony or evidence might tend to convict him of a crime. But such answer or evidence shall not be received against him upon any criminal proceeding or prosecution.

CHAPTER 40.

OF CRIMES AGAINST THE REVENUE AND PROPERTY OF THE TERRITORY.

Section.

6698. Embezzlement and false accounts by officers

6699. Other violations of official conduct.

6700. Fraud by officer.

6701. Refusal of officer to perform duty.

6702. Obstructing the collection of taxes,

6703. Applies to all officers.

6704. Wilful neglect by territorial officer.

6705. Auctioneer shall have but one business place

6706. Selling in any other place.

Section.

6707. Punishment for so selling.

6708. Fraud in quality of goods.

6709. Sales must be by day, except when.

6710. Omitting to render account by auctioneer.

6711. Auctioneer committing a fraud.

6712. False bill of lading.

6713. Weigh master making false entry.

6714. Injuring public buildings.

6715. Seizing military stores.

6716. False statements regarding taxes.

Embezzlement and false accounts by officers.
s. 497, Pen. C.

§ 6698. Every public officer, and every deputy or clerk of any such officer, and every other person receiving any moneys on behalf of or for account of this territory, or of any department of the government of this territory, or of any bureau or fund created by law, and in which this territory, or the people thereof, are directly or indirectly interested, who either:

1. Appropriates to his own use, or to the use of any person not entitled thereto, without authority of law, any money received by him as such officer, clerk or deputy, or otherwise, on behalf of this territory, or the people thereof, or in which they are interested; or,

2. Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or erasure in any account of or relating to any moneys so received by him, on behalf of the territory, or the said people, or in which they are interested; or,

3. Fraudulently alters, falsifies, conceals, destroys or obliterates any such account; or,

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