decoy or ageiit, shall knowingly lead, carry, direct or convey from any depot, 

 wharf, stopping place, hotel or lodging house, any person or persons to any 

 office, violating the provisions of this act, or any one of them, he shall, upon 

 conviction, be punished in the manner prescribed by section five, and may be 

 indicted and convicted as prescribed in section six. 



§ 6. Persons offending against any of the provisions of the last preceding 

 section, may be indicted and convicted for a conspiracy, as at common law, 

 and this, although the object of such conspiracy shall not have been executed. 



§ 7. All offices kept for the purpose of selling any passenger tickets or iu- 

 struments in violation of the provisions of this act or of any one of them, or 

 where, without the authority required in section two of this act, a pretence is 

 made to sell 01 dispose of the same, or where it is asserted or assumed that 

 there is an authority to sell or dispose of the same as required by this act, 

 and none such exists, or of which it shall be advertised in any newspaper, or 

 by printed bills or posters, wherever affixed, that there is such authority, and 

 none such exists; and all offices where such sale or disposition is made, in vio- 

 lation of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed disorderly houses; and all 

 persons keeping such offices, and all persons associating together for the pur- 

 pose of violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed disorderly per- 

 sons and guilty of a misdemeanor ; and shall, upon conviction of being mem- 

 bers of such association, or of being interested, directly or indirectly, in the 

 transaction of such business, or shall receive any part of the profits thereof, 

 shall in like manner be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction 

 shall be punished by imprisonment in the county prison for a period not less 

 than three nor more than twelve months; and it shall be the duty of all mag- 

 istrates of the county where such offices are kept, or where such sale has been 

 made, or where such association is organized, upon due proof thereof, to issue 

 a warrant for the apprehension of all persons that may be found therein, and 

 to have such offices closed and such signs and advertisements removed. 



§ 8. All complaints regarding the violation of this act, shall be presented 

 by the district attorney of the district where such complaint was made, to the 

 grand jury for indictment, in preference to all other complaints. And it shall 

 be the duty of the judges of the court of general sessions of the peace, and of 

 the courts of oyer and terminer, in the counties of Erie, Albany and New 

 York, to call the attention of the several grand juries to the provisions of this 

 act. 



§ 9. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the actual con- 

 signee of any line, ship, or steamship, from selling passenger tickets thereon, 

 or so as to prevent the purser clerk, or ticket clerk, of any ship or steamship 

 from selling in his office on board the ship or steamship for which he is purser 



