642 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



AC'L'ION FOR DAMAGES. 



Sec. 5021. Any person who shall be injured or damaged by any acts pra 

 hibited in the preceding section, in addition to the remedy therein provided, may 

 recover the actual damages sustained by him from the person, agent, employe or 

 corporation therein mentioned and neither said criminal proceeding nor said civil 

 action shall be a bar to a conviction or to a recovery in the other. 



CRUELTY AND MALICIOUS MISCHIEF TO ANIMALS, 



INJUKIES TO BEASTS. 



Sec. 4818. If any person maliciously kill, maim or disfigure any horse 

 cattle or any other domestic beast of another, or maliciously administer poison to 

 any such animal, or expose any poisonous substances with intent that the same 

 should be taken by such animal, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not ex- 

 ceeding five years, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding one year, or be 

 fined not exceeding three hundred dollars. 



DKiVlNG AWAY STOCK. 



Sec. 4819. If any person knowingly or willfully drive off, or suffer or per- 

 mit to be driven off, any stock of another to a distance exceeding one mile from 

 the residence of the owner, or of his agent having charge of such stock, or the range 

 In which such stock is usualy in the habit of running, without the consent of 

 such owner or agent, he shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, or be 

 imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days ; and any justice of the 

 peace in any county through which the stock thus driven off should pass, or in 

 which it may be found, shall have jurisdiction of the offense. 



UISTUKBING STOCK. 



Sec. 4820. Any person who knowingly discharges firearms of any description 

 within, or in the immediate vicinity of, any inclosure where cattle, hogs or sheep 

 are being fed for the purpose of fattening the same ; on any person who enters such 

 Inclosure with firearms or dog, unless such person shall be the owner of said stock. 

 or have the control of the same, or shall have permission from such owner or the 

 person having control thereof to enter said premises, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor. 



CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. 



Sec. 4969. If any person torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, 

 mutilate, overdrive, cruelly beat or cruelly kill any animal, or unnecessarily fail to 

 provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter or protection from the weather, 

 or drive or work the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandon the same, or 

 carry or cause the same to be cruelly carried on any vehicle, or otherwise, he 

 shall be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or be fined not 

 exceeding one hundred dollars. 



IMPOUNDING ANIMALS WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER. 



Sec. 4972. If any person impound or confine, or cause to be impounded or 

 confined, in any pound or other place, any creature, and fail to supply the same 

 during such confinement with a sufficient quantity of food and water, he shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor. 



