CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1003

An. Code, sec. 91. 1904, sec. 83. 1898, ch. 400, secs. 59 A and B.

106. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wilfully con-
nect or disconnect any electrical conductors belonging to any company using
or engaged in the manufacture and supply of electric currents for pur-
poses of light, heat and power, or either of them, or to make any connection
with any such electrical conductors for the purpose of using or wasting
the electric current, or to in any wise tamper with any meter used to
register current consumed, or to interfere with the operation of any dynamo
or other electrical appliance of such company, or to tamper with or inter-
fere with the poles, wires or conduits used by such companies, unless such
person or persons shall be duly authorized by or be in the employ of such
company; provided, that nothing in this section shall in any way interfere
with any lawful supervision and control of electric light and power com-
panies, their electric conductors, appliances, machinery and poles by the
municipality within which such companies are doing business, or by the
officers of such municipality, nor shall anything in this section interfere
with any right now existing in the councils of any municipality to pass
ordinances relating to and regulating such electric light and power com-
panies. Any person or persons found guilty of a violation of any of the
provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned not exceeding six months or
fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both or either, in the discretion
of the court.

An. Code, sec. 92. 1904, sec. 84. 1902, ch. 153, sec. 59C.

107. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously take or remove the
waste, packing or journal brass from any journal box or boxes of any loco-
motive engine, tender, carriage, coach, caboose or truck used or operated
upon any railroad, whether the same be operated by steam or electricity,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined
not more than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than
three months, or in the discretion of the court may be both fined and impris-
oned, as aforesaid.

An. Code, sec. 93. 1904, sec. 85. 1888, sec. 60. 1870, ch. 376, sec. 1.

108. Any baggage master, express agent, stage driver, hackman or
other person whose duty it shall be to handle, remove or take care of baggage
with a view to, or in course of its receipt, transportation or delivery, who
shall wilfully or recklessly injure or destroy any trunk, valise, box, package
or parcel while handling, loading, transporting, unloading, delivering or
storing the same, shall be punished by a fine or penalty not exceeding fifty
dollars, to be recovered by indictment or by action of debt in the name of
the State, in the usual way; one-half for the benefit of the informer.

An. Code, sec. 94. 1904, sec. 86. 1888, sec. 61. 1870, ch. 376, sec. 2.

109. Nothing in the preceding section shall affect the civil liability of
the party so offending or his principal for damages; but in all civil actions