Pennsylvania Act 1865-243 — PHILADELPHIA INCORPORATED - FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH

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PHILADELPHIA INCORPORATED - FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH
                 Act of Feb. 28, 1865, P.L. 238, No. 243              Cl. 11
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To an act to incorporate the city of Philadelphia, relating to
        Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph.

        WHEREAS, The signal boxes of the fire alarm telegraph, within
     the corporate limits of the city of Philadelphia, are frequently
     broken open, and false alarms of fire given, and the wires and
     poles of the police and fire alarm telegraph disturbed and
     broken, by malicious persons:
        And whereas, There is now no law, under which the said
     person, or persons, thus offending, can be punished; therefore,

        Section 1.  Giving false fire alarm or injuring fire alarm
     apparatus
        If any person, or persons, shall wilfully give, or cause to
     be given, any false alarm or fire, from a fire alarm telegraph
     box, or boxes, or shall break, or cause to be broken, any fire
     alarm signal box, or any pole, post, or wire, connected with the
     police and fire alarm telegraph, within the City of
     Philadelphia, or shall injure, or in any manner interfere with,
     or interrupt, the working of the same, he, she, or they, shall
     be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof
     shall be punished by a fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars,
     for each offense, or by imprisonment, for a term not exceeding
     two years, or by both.  1865, Feb. 28, P.L. 238, Sec. 1.