LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

section 59, and to be known as sections 59 A and 59 B, and to
read as follows :

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59 A. If shall be unlawful for any person or persons to wil-
fully connect or disconnect any electrical conductors belong-
ing to any company sssssssssusing or engaged in the manufacture and
supply of electric currents for purposes 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 interfere with the poles, wires
or conduits used by such companies, unless such person or per-
sons shall be duly authorized by or be in the employ of such
company ; provided, that nothing in this Act shall in any way
interfere with any lawful supervision and control of electric
light and power companies, their electric conductors, appli-
ances, 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 Act interfere with any
right nqw existing in the councils of any municipality to pass
ordinances relating to and regulating such electric light and
power companies.
59 B. Any person or persons found guilty of a violation of

Unlawful to
connect or
tamper with
electric cur-
rent.

any of the provisions of the preceding section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof,
be imprisoned not exceeding six months or fined not exceed-
ing five hundred dollars, or both or either, at the discretion of
the court.

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

Effective