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marks upon, or in any manner places upon or affixes to, any building, 

 fence, wall, or tree, without the consent of the owner thereof, any word, 

 letter, character, figure, sentence, or device, or any handbill, or notice, 

 shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than ten dollars ; but this sec- 

 tion does not apply to the posting of any handbill or notice of any public 

 sale of property by any sheriff, administrator, executor, or licensed auc- 

 tioneer, or any notice required by any law to be posted. 



SEC. 6884. [Setting up obstruction on public sidewalk.] Who- 

 ever sets up any table, stand, tent, wagon or other article, to use or let 

 for profit, on a public footwalk or sidewalk constructed according to 

 law, by any person, or any board of education, the council of any mu- 

 nicipal corporation, the trustees of any cemetery association, the trus- 

 tees of any township, or any agricultural or religious society, or rides, 

 drives, leads, or .hitches any horse or other animal on such footwalk 

 or sidewalk, or in any other way obstructs the same, or digs up or re- 

 moves any of the material of which the same is composed, shall be fined 

 not more than twenty-five not less than five dollars, or imprisoned not 

 more than ten days, or both. 



(6884-1) [Unlawful camping on public highways or adjacent 

 lands.] It shall be unlawful for any band -of gypsies, wanderers, 

 travelers, or other person or persons, to camp in tent, wagon or other- 

 wise, on the public highway, or lands adjacent thereto, for a longer pe- 

 riod than twenty-four hours without consent of the owners of such 

 adjacent land, or consent of owner of land abutting on the highway where 

 such camping place is made. 



(6884-2) SEC. 2. [Penalty.] Any person or persons violating 

 the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars, or imprisoned 

 in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both. 



SEC. 6885. [Breaking open pound, etc.] Whoever interferes 

 with, breaks open, destroys, or injures, any pound erected under 

 authority of any law, or sets at liberty any animal impounded therein, 

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

 ten days, or both. 



NUISANCES. 



SEC. 6921. [Nuisances.] Whoever erects, continues, uses or 

 maintains, anv building, structure, or place for the exercise of any trade, 

 employment, 'or business, or for the keeping or feeding of any animal, 

 which," by occasioning noxious exhalations, or noisome or offensive 

 smells, becomes injurious to the health, comfort, or property of^ indi- 

 viduals, or the public, or causes or suffers any offal, filth, or noisome 

 substance, to be collected, or to remain in any place, to the damage or 

 prejudice of others, or the public, or obstructs or impedes, without legal 

 authority, the passage of any navigable river, harbor, "or collection of 

 water, or corrupts or renders unwholesome or impure, any water-course, 

 stream, or water, or unlawfully diverts any such water-course from us 

 natural course or state, to the injury or prejudice of others, or obstructs 

 or incumbers, by fences, buildings, structures, or otherwise, any public 

 ground, or highway, or any street or alley of any municipal corporation, 

 shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. 



