contained shall require the sending, receiving, or delivering of any message counseling, aiding, abetting, or encouraging treason against the government of the United States or of this state, or other resistance to the lawful authority, or any message calculated to further any fraudulent plan or purpose, O to instigate or encourage the perpetration of any unlawful act, or to facilitate the escape of any criminal or person accused of crime. By the Revised Statutes of Kentucky, "If an agent, officer, or manager of a telegraph line, constructed in this state, or other person, shall knowingly transmit, on or through the same, any false communication or intelligence, with intention to injure any one, or to speculate on any article of merchandise, commerce, or to trade, or with intent that another may do so; or if any agent, officer, manager of a telegraph line, from corrupt or improper motives, or willful negligence, shall withhold the transmission of messages or intelligence, for which the customary charges have been paid or tendered, he shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars."

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1860, vol. 1, pp. 394, 395; and other states have enacted to the same effect.

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