Injuring build ings by malicious explo of good faith and with intent to defraud the owner thereof; or with the like fraudulent intent applies or disposes of any money or negotiable instrument raised or acquired by the sale or other disposition of such merchandise, bill of lading, certificate or order, to his own use, he shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State penitiary not exceeding five years. (1) SEC. 49. Whoever wilfully and maliciously, by the explosion of gunpowder or any other explosive substance, unlawfully desions of powder stroys or injures any dwelling-house, office, shop or other building, or any ship or vessel, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding twenty years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. (1) Maliciously throwing explosive substance against buildings. Willful destruc trenches, ob voirs or canals. SEC. 50. Whoever wilfully and maliciously throws into, against or upon, or puts, places or explodes, or causes to be exploded in or upon, or near any dwelling-house, office, shop, building or vessel, any gunpowder or other explosive substance, or any bombshell, torpedo or other instrument filled or loaded with any explosive substance, with intent unlawfully to destroy or injure such dwelling-house, office, shop, building or vessel, or any person or property therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding ten years, or in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. (7) SEC. 51. Whoever wilfully and maliciously breaks down, intion of dams, jures, removes or destroys any dam, reservoir, canal or trench, canals, or any gate, flume, flash-boards or other appurtenances thereof, structing water or any of the wheels, mill gear or machinery of a water mill, of ponds, reser or cotton gin or press, or wilfully or wantonly, without color of right, drains off the water contained in a mill pond, reservoir, canal or trench, or wilfully and maliciously, without color of right, obstructs the water of a mill pond, reservoir, canal or trench from flowing out of the same, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding five hurdred dollars, and imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year. (1) Willful removal Jocks, culverts, SEC. 52. Whoever wilfully and maliciously breaks down, inof toll-bridge. jures, removes or destroys any public or toll bridge, or turnpike mbankments. gate, or any lock, culvert or embankment of a canal, or wilfully and maliciously makes any aperture or breach in such embankment, with intent to destroy or injure the same, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year. (1) SEC. 53. Whoever wilfully casts away, burns, sinks or otherwise destroys a ship or vessel, with intent to injure and defraud any owner of such ship or vessel, or the owner of any property laden on board of the same, or an insurer of such ship, vessel Willfully casting away ship. (7) Secs. 60, 63, 64, 67 and 68, Sub-Chap. 4, Chap. 1637, Act of Aug. 6, 1868, or property, or of any part thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary for life, or any term of years. (m) with intent to SEC. 54. Whoever lades, equips or fits out, or assists in lad- Equipping ship ing, equipping and fitting out a ship or vessel, with intent in intent that the same shall be wilfully cast away, burnt, sunk or other- stroy it. wise destroyed, to injure and defraud an owner or insurer of such ship or vessel, or of any property laden on board, the same shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding twenty years, or fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. (m) fraudulent SEC. 55. If the owner of a ship or vessel, or of property Exhibiting laden or pretended to be laden on board the same, or if any fo other person concerned in the lading or fitting out of a ship or vessel, makes out or exhibits, or causes to be made out or exhibited, a false or fraudulent invoice, bill of lading, bill of parcels or other false estimates of any goods or property laden, or pretended to be laden on board such ship or vessel, with intent to injure and defraud an insurer of such ship, vessel or property, or of any part thereof, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. (m) vessel. SEC. 56. If a master, other officer, mariner of a ship or ves- False affidavit sel, makes or causes to be made, or swears to any false affidavit by officer of or protest, or if an owner or other person concerned in such ship or vessel, or in the goods and property laden on board the same, procures any such false affidavits or protest to be made, or exhibits the same, with intent to injure, deceive or defraud an insurer of such ship or vessel, or of any goods or property laden on board the same, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding ten years, or by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year. (m) SEC. 57. Whoever wilfully and maliciously kills, maims or Malicious indisfigures any horse, cattle or other beast of another person, jury to animals. poisoning or wilfully and maliciously administers poisons to any such animals. beasts, or exposes any poisonous substance with intent that the same shall be taken and swallowed by them, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year. (m) property. SEC. 58. Whoever wilfully and maliciously destroys or in- willful injury jures the personal property of another, in any manner or by to personal any means not particularly described or mentioned in SubChapter 4, Chapter 1637, Act of 1868, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding five years, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and im ^ (m) Secs. 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74, Sub-Chap. 4, Chap. 1637, Act of Aug. 6, 1868. Obstruction of railroads. Horse stealing defined. Punishment for horse-stealing. prisonment in the jail not exceeding one year: Provided, That when the value of the property so destroyed or injured is not alleged to exceed the sum of fifteen dollars, the punishment shall be by fine not exceeding fifteen dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days. (n) SEC. 59. Any person who shall wantonly and malieiously injure, place any impediment or obstruction on any railroad track, or change or otherwise interfere with any railroad switch, by means of which injury, impediment, obstruction or interference with any such switch, any engine, car or vehicle shall diverge or be thrown from the track of said railroad, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than two and not more than ten years. (0) SEC. 60. Any person who shall be found guilty of stealing a horse, gelding, mare, filly, colt, ass, or mule shall be deemed guilty of horse stealing. Any person who shall be convicted of horse stealing shall suffer the penalty of death by hanging, or imprisonment, or fine, or fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. (p) Discharge of ballast in harbors and rivers forbidden. Discharge or de CHAPTER 57. CRIMES FELONIES-OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY. 1. Discharge of ballast in harbors and rivers forbidden. 2. Place designated for ballast to be discharged; manner of building wharves, piers, enclosures for ballast, &c. 3. Rights of riparian owners. 4. Ballast not to be discharged upon wharves unless upon conditions. 5. Penalty for violations of these laws. SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any steamer or vessel of any description, or for any barge or lighter used in unlading such steamer or vessel, or for any person, to discharge any rock, sand, gravel, ballast, or any other material (or to place or cause to be placed any obstruction to navigation or commerce) in the waters of any harbor, port, bay or river of this State, except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. (a) SEC. 2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to posit of ballast, discharge or cause to be discharged, deposit or cause to be deposited, in the tide or salt waters of any bay, port, harbor or river of this State any ballast or material of any kind other than clear stone or rock free from gravel or pebbles, which said clear stone or rock shall be discharged or deposited only &c., in tide or salt waters of bay, &c. (n) Sec. 79, Sub-Chap. 4, Chap. 1837, Act of Aug. 6, 1868. (0) Sec. 1, Chap. 1959, Act of Feb. 20, 1873. (p) Secs. 1 and 2, Chap. 1550, Act of Dec. 13, 1886. (u) Sec. 1, Chap. 3142, Act of Feb. 26, 1879. stone en in the construction of enclosures in connection with wharves, wharves, &c. piers, quays or jetties, or in the construction of permanent bulkheads connecting the solid and permanent portions of wharves. That after such clear stone or rock enclosures or Discharge or debulkheads have been built up on all sides to a height not less posit in clear than one foot above high water mark, and after the same have closures. been made so solid, tight and permanent as to prevent any sand, mud, gravel or other material that may be discharged or deposited in them from drifting or escaping through such enclosures, any kind of ballast may be discharged or deposited in them. The aforesaid enclosures may be constructed of wood, Construction of stone and rock combined, the stone and rock to be placed on enclosures, &c. the outside of the wood to a height not less at any point than one foot above high water mark. No such enclosure, pier, quay or jetty shall be begun until the point whereat it is to be built shall have been connected by a substantial wharf with the shore or with a permanent wharf: Provided, That the owners of wharves may at any time, with the consent of the Board more than eigh of Pilot Commissioners of the port or harbor in which such Rip-rap walls. wharves are situated, build rip-rap walls of clear stone or rock on each side of their wharves from the shore to a point at which the water is twelve feet deep, and when such rip-rap walls have attained the height of one foot above high water mark, and have been securely closed at the deep water end by a rip-rap wall of the same height, any kind of ballast may be deposited within them. No enclosure, pier, quay or structure of any kind No enclosure in shall be built in water of a greater depth than eighteen feet in teen feet water. any bay, port or harbor of this State, and it is hereby made Pilot Commisthe duty of the Pilot Commissioners of the different ports and sioners to desigharbors of this State to designate by ordinance the depth of nate depth of water, not greater than the said eighteen feet, at which the aforesaid enclosures, piers, quays, jetties and bulkheads may be built within the bays, ports, rivers and habors over which they respectively have jurisdiction. (b) water, &c. owners. Wharves, &c. SEC. 3. That nothing contained in this chapter shall interfere Riparian with any rights or privileges now enjoyed by riparian owners: Provided, That nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to prevent any person from constructing any wharf or placing any piling, logs or lumber in any waters where he would have heretofore had the right so to do. (b) forbidden. SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful for any person to deposit or Deposit of balcause to be deposited on any wharf or quay any ballast, except last on wharf the said wharves be so secured as to prevent such ballast from washing into the waters of the bay. (c) SEC. 5. The master or other person in charge of any steamer, Penalty. vessel, barge or lighter, or any other person violating either of the foregoing provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not (b) Sece. 1 and 2, Chap. 3298, Act of Feb. 22, 1881. (c) Sec. 3, Chap. 3142, Act of Feb. 26, 1879. exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the State penitentiary not exceeding two years, one or both, at the discretion of the court. (c) False swearing defined. 15 Fla., 577. 17 Fla., 389. Penalty for. Subornation of defined. CHAPTER 58. CRIMES FELONIES- -OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC JUSTICE. 1. False swearing defined. 2. Penalty for. 3. Subornation of perjury; pen alty for. 11. Penalty for attempting to corrupt officers of court. 12. Penalty for arbitrators, or jurors corruptly accepting anything 4. Penalty for perjury in capital from parties to suits. cases. 13. Penalty for conveying into 5. Perjury further defined; pen- jails tools to aid prisoners to esalty for. 6. Penalty for subornation of perjury. cape. 14. Penalty for aiding escapes. 15. Penalty for Jailer to suffer 7. Penalty for inciting others to prisoner to escape voluntarily. commit perjury. 16. Penalty for concealing cer 8. Penalty for resisting officers tain felonies. by violence. 9. Penalty for offering gifts to public officers with intent to influ ence. 17. False swearing by telegraph operator. 18. Compounding felonies. 10. Penalty for acceptance of from jail. such gift. SECTION 1. False swearing shall consist in wilfully, knowingly, absolutely and falsely swearing, either with or without laying his or her hand on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, or affirming in any matter or thing (other than a judicial proceeding) by a person to whom a lawful oath or affirmation is administered, or in the giving, signing or executing any false certificates or other official statement by any railroad president or director, or bank president or director, or by any officer who is required by law to take an oath of office. (a) SEC. 2. Any person who shall commit the crime of false swearing shall, on conviction, suffer the pains and penalties of perjury. (a) SEC. 3. Subornation of false swearing shall consist in profalse swearing curing another person to commit the crime of false swearing, and any person who shall commit the crime of subornation of false swearing shall, on conviction, suffer the pains and penalties of subornation of perjury. (a) If any person, by wilful Penalty for. (c) Sec. 4, Chap. $142, Act of Feb. 26, 1879. (a) Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Chap. 865, Act of Jan. 5, 1859. |