perform it in such a way as to hinder the objects thereof, or who shall be guilty of any willful violation of any of the provisions thereof.

PUNISHMENT FOR ELECTION FRAUDS.

$1492. Every person found guilty of an Election Fraud shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for any term not less than ten days or exceeding two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the Court.

Besides such punishment, such person shall be disqualified from voting and from holding any office under the Government, and from being elected to or occupying a seat in the Legislature, for six years from the date of such conviction.

If the person so convicted shall hold any office, either elective or appointive, at the time of such conviction, such office shall at once and without mention in such sentence, or other proceeding be vacated by such conviction. The Judge or Magistrate before whom such conviction is had shall immediately transmit to the Minister of the Interior the name of such person, the offense of which he has been convicted and the sentence of the Court.

MISDEMEANORS.

$1493. The following persons shall be guilty of a misde

meanor:

1. Every person, except such assistants as are by law or by said rules and regulations specifically authorized to be employed, who shall, for the purpose of promoting or preventing the election of any candidate at any election, be engaged or employed for payment or promise of payment, or for any valuable consideration, to act as agent, clerk or messenger, or in any other capacity.

2.

Every person furnishing, hiring, or using any premises or portion thereof licensed to sell beer, wines or spirits, as a committee room for the purpose of promoting the election of any candidate at any election.

3. Every person who shall be disorderly or create a disturbance whereby any meeting of the Board of Registration of voters or of the Inspectors of Election during an election shall be disturbed or interfered with; or whereby any person who intends to be lawfully present at any such meeting or election is prevented from attending; or who shall cause any distubance at any election; and every person assisting or aiding or abetting any such disturbance.

4. Any candidate who fails or neglect to furnish the list of agents prescribed in said rules and regulations.

5. Every person who shall, either in person or through another, in any manner break up or prevent, or endeavor to break up or prevent, the holding of any meeting of the Board of Registration of voters, or in any manner break up or prevent, or endeavor to break up or prevent, the holding of any election.

6. Every person who, being a candidate for election, or an agent of any such candidate, or a member of any committee. acting for or on behalf of any such candidate, shall fail to file the statement of expenses or of lack of expenses, as required in said rules and regulations.

7. Every person who shall willfully violate or fail to obey any of the provisions of law or of said rules and regulations, punishment for which is not otherwise herein specifically provided for.

8. Any person who shall willfully tear down, or destroy, or deface any election proclamation or any poster, or notice, or list of votes, or card of instructions, or specimen ballot, issued or posted by authority of law.

PUNISHMENT FOR MISDEMEANORS.

$1494. Any person convicted of a misdemeanor under the provisions hereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court.

JURISDICTION.

$1495. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred upon District Magistrates and Circuit Judges to issue warrants and hear and determine all offenses arising hereunder, subject to the usual right of appeal.

Any person in any way violating any of the provisions hereof may also be prosecuted for the violation of any other then existing law, rule or regulation.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 86.

S$1490-1495 are L. R. Act. 8, §§1-6.

P. C. Ch. 86 repealed, S. L. 1888, Ch. 76.

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CHAPTER 87.

TAXES.

$1496. Any person who shall knowingly and willfully make and deliver any false return or valuation of property, or make any false answer in relation to his property or property in his possession or control, for the purpose of evading the assessment thereof, or by any falsehood, willful neglect, fraud, act or contrivance whatsoever used or practiced, evade or attempt to evade assessment of his property or of property concerning which such person is required to make a statement, list or return for assessment, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

$1497. All persons willfully aiding, abetting or assisting in any manner whatsoever any person to commit any of the foregoing acts or misdemeanors, shall likewise be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

$1498. All Assessors and Deputy Assessors and all Police officers and Constables on whom duties are imposed under the provisions of Chapter 60 of the Civil Laws, who shall willfully fail or refuse or neglect to faithfully perform any duty or duties of him required by the provisions of said chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

$1499. Any person convicted of any misdemeanor under the provisions of this chapter shall be punished by fine of not more than five hundred dollars.

$1500. The several District Magistrates in the Republic shall have jurisdiction to try and determine misdemeanors arising under this chapter.

NOTE TO CHAPTER 87

$81496-1500 are S. L. 1896, Act 51, §§88-92.

P. C. Ch. 87 repealed, S. L. 1882, Ch. 43; C. L. p. 117.

CHAPTER 88.

DEADLY POISONS.

$1501. No person shall sell or deliver any deadly poison,' or any wooden vessel or container which shall have contained any deadly poison, except for scientific, medicinal or mechanical purposes, nor to any person not known to the vendor to be careful and well disposed. Provided that sales may be made to a person not known to the vendor, if some responsible person known to the vendor, will certify in writing that the person desiring to purchase may safely be entrusted with the same, but in all cases the vendor shall require the purchaser to disclose the intended use of such poison, vessel or container, as the case may be.

$1502. Every person who shall sell or deliver any deadly poison, shall keep a book in which shall be recorded the name and quantity of the poison sold or delivered, the person to whom it was sold or delivered, and whether such person was known to the vendor, and if not, the name of the responsible person upon whose recommendation the same was sold; and the certificate of such person shall be preserved. The said book of records shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Minister of the Interior or his agent.

$1503. The book required to be kept by Section 1502 shall contain a record of the sale of any vessel or container which shall have contained a deadly poison in like manner as is required with respect to the sale or delivery of the poison itself.

$1504. The box, phial, or other package in which any deadly poisons shall be sold or delivered, shall bear a label con

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