268 LAWS RELATING TO AGRICULTURE. 



SEC. 6868. [Throwing down fences or opening gates.] Who- 

 ever wantonly or maliciously throws or lays down, or opens, prostrates, 

 or injures, any fence enclosing any land, the property of another, or 

 any bars or gate in any such fence, shall be fined not more than one 

 hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. 

 Prosecutions under this section shall not be commenced after one year 

 from the time the offense was committed. 



, SEC. 6869. [Malicious injury of toil-gate.] Whoever willfully 

 or maliciously cuts down, demolishes, destroys or injures any turnpike 

 or .plank road, toll-gate or toll-board or any toll-gate erected on, or any 

 fence which has lawfully been erected across, or partially across any 

 turnpike or plank road, or the national road, or whoever, with intent 

 to evade the payment of toll, passes through any private gate or bars 

 or along any other ground near a turnpike or plank road, or the national 

 road toll-gate erected in pursuance of law, or practices any fraudulent 

 or forcible means with intent to evade or lessen the payment of toll, shall 

 be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less than five dollars. 



SEC. 6870. [Fast driving, etc., over bridges.] Whoever rides 

 or drives faster than a walk on or over any toll bridge erected across 

 the Ohio river, or any other toll bridge having placed upon it, by the 

 ow^ner thereof, a caution notice according to law, or any free county 

 bridge, having placed upon it, by the commissioners of the county, a 

 caution notice according to law, or drives on or over any such bridge 

 more than twenty head of cattle at one time, or, with intent to defraud, 

 fails or refuses to pay the usual toll for crossing any such bridge, shall 

 be fined not more than ten dollars nor less than one dollar. 



SEC. 6877. [Injuring and committing nuisances in buildings.] 

 Whoever maliciously injures or defaces any church edifice, school house, 

 dwelling house, or other building, its fixtures, books, or appurtenances, 

 or commits any nuisance therein, or purposely and maliciously commits 

 any trespass upon the inclosed grounds attached thereto, or any fixtures 

 placed thereon, or any inclosure or sidewalk about the same, shall be 

 fined in any sum not more thai one hundred dollars. 



SEC. 6878. [Destroying or defacing newspapers, etc., belonging 

 to libraries.] Whoever intentionally defaces, obliterates, tears, or 

 destroys, in whole or in part, any newspaper, magazine, or periodical, on 

 file in any reading-room belonging to another person, or cuts therefrom 

 any article or advertisement, shall be fined not more than one hundred 

 nor less than ten dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, 

 or both. 



SEC. 6879. [Demolishing guide-boards, etc.] Whoever mali- 

 ciously demolishes, throws down, alters, or defaces, any mile-stone, mile- 

 board" mile-post, guide-board, or guide-post, standing on any public 

 road, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned not more 

 than ten days, or both. 



SEC. 6880. [Trespassing by destroying trees and crops.] Who- 

 ever wrongfully, and without lawful authority, cuts down or destroys, 

 or by girdling, or any other means, injures any vine, bush, shrub, sap- 

 ling,' or tree, standing or growing upon land not his own. or severs from 

 the land of another, or injures, or destroys any product standing or 

 growing thereon, or other thing attached thereto, shall be fined in any 



