CHAP. I. CHAP. 144. AN ACT amending the Revised Statutes in relation to obtaining money under false pretences. PASSED April 11, 1851. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Statutes §1. Section fifty-three, of article four, of title three, of Revised chapter one, of part four of the Revised Statutes shall be held extended. to apply in addition to those cases to which it is now applicable, to every person who with intent to cheat or defraud another designedly, by color of any false token or writing, or by any false pretence obtain the signature of any person to any written instrument, or obtain from any person any money, personal property or valuable thing for any alleged charitable or benevolent purpose whatever. CHAP. 155. AN ACT to provide for the punishment of the fraudulent and unauthorized issue and transfer of the stock and bonds of corporations and joint stock companies. PASSED April 5, 1855. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: tificates of $1. Every officer and every agent of any incorporated False cercompany or corporation, formed or existing under or by stock a virtue of the laws of any of the United States, who shall, felony. within this state, willfully and designedly sign, or procure to be signed with intent to issue, sell or pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged, or shall willfully and designedly issue, sell or pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged, any false or fraudulent certificate, or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such incorporated company or corporation, or any false or fraudulent bond, or evidence of debt of such incorporated company or corporation, or any certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares in such incorporated company or corporation, or any instrument purporting to be a certificate or other evidence of ownership or transfer of such share or shares, or purporting to be such bond or evidence of debt, the signing, issuing, selling or pledging of which shall not be authorized by the charter and bylaws of such incorporated company or incorporation, or some amendment thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and PART IV. False certificates of stock a shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than three nor more than seven years. S2. Every officer and agent of every incorporated company, joint stock company or corporation, formed or existing felony when under or by virtue of the laws of any of the United States, unautho rized by company. who shall within this state knowingly, willfully and designedly sign, or procure to be signed with intent to issue, sell or pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged, or who shall knowingly, willfully and designedly issue, sell or pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged any certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such incorporated company, joint stock company or corporation, or any bond or evidence of debt of such incorporated company, joint stock company or corporation, or any instrument purporting to be a certificate or other evidence of ownership or transfer of such share or shares, or purporting to be such bond or evidence of debt, without being thereunto first authorized and empowered by such incorporated company, joint stock company or corporation, and every such officer and agent who shall re-issue, sell, pledge or dispose of, or cause to be re-issued, sold, pledged or disposed of, any surrendered or canceled certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any such share or shares, or any right or interest therein, with the intent of defrauding any such corporation or any person or persons, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the state prison not less than three nor more than seven years. No persons shall sell tickets except CHAP. 103. AN ACT to prevent frauds in the sale of tickets upon steamboats, steamships and other vessels. PASSED March 23, 1860; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: S1. No person shall sell or issue, within this state, any ticket or instrument, mentioned in section two of this act, for agents, &c. or upon any company or line mentioned in said section, unless the agents of such company or line; and no person shall sell or issue, within this state, any ticket or instrument mentioned in section two of this act, for or upon any line, ship or steamship, mentioned in said section, except the agents of the owners or consignees of such line, ship or steamship; and no person shall be deemed an agent of any such company, or of the owners or consignees of any such line, ship or steamship, unless by such company, or by the owners or consignees of such line, ship or steamship, duly appointed; which appointment shall be by a proper authority in writing, and which shall also designate the name of the company, line, ship or steamship for which he shall act as agent, together with the street and number of the street, and the city, town or village in which his office shall be kept, for the sale of such tickets or instruments; and no person shall be deemed an agent, within the meaning of this act, unless appointed in the manner and form aforesaid. CHAP. I. $2. No person other than the proper agents, appointed as Who shall provided in section one of this act, shall issue, sell, or offer to sell tickets. sell, or in any way dispose of, or attempt to dispose of, to any person or persons, any passenger ticket or instrument, either written or printed, or partly written or printed, or both, entitling or purporting to entitle, absolutely, or upon being exchanged, or upon the happening of any condition or contingency, any person or persons, to any passage, or right of passage, conveyance, or right of conveyance, upon any ship or steamship company, or line, or upon any ship or steamship belonging to such company or line, or upon any ship or steamship whatsoever, from any port or place within this state or elsewhere, to any port or place wheresoever; or shall take, or receive, any money or valuable thing, as a consideration for such passage or conveyance, or for the procurement of such ticket or instrument; and no such ticket or instrument shall be sold or offered for sale, or any consideration as aforesaid, received in whole or in part, for the procurement thereof, except by such agent at the office designated in his appointment; nor until he has been authorized to sell the same according to the provisions of the preceding section; nor for a sum exceeding the price charged at the time of such sale, by the company, owners, or consignees, for or upon whose line, ship or steamship, such ticket or instrument was sold; nor unless such ticket or instrument was made and delivered to such agent by such company, owners or consignees, for the purpose of being sold; nor shall any such ticket or instrument be issued or sold, which shall entitle, or shall be represented as entitling any person or persons to a passage by any mode of conveyance, or to any place of destination, or by any route, company, line, ship or steamship, other than the one bargained for. agents, &c. $3. No person other than the proper agents, appointed as None but provided in section one of this act, shall sell or offer to sell, dispose of, or in any way attempt to dispose of, to any person or persons, any order, certificate, receipt, or other instrument in writing, either written or printed, or partly written or printed, or both, for the purpose or under the pretense of procuring any ticket or instrument mentioned in section two of this act, upon any company or line, ship or steamship Penalty for therein mentioned; and every such order shall be directed to the company, owner or consignees at their office. S 4. All persons violating any of the provisions of the prethis act, &c. ceding sections of this act shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in a state prison for a term not more than two years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not less than six months. Persons selling shall be pun ished, &c. Offenders guilty of S 5. All persons, who by any means amounting to a conspiracy at common law, shall sell, or attempt to sell to any person or persons any passenger ticket, or any instrument, either written or printed, or partly written or printed, or both, entitling, or purporting to entitle, either absolutely or upon being exchanged, or upon the happening of any condition or contingency, any person or persons, to any passage, or right of passage, conveyance or right of conveyance, from any port or place, within this state or elsewhere, to any port or place whatsoever, upon any ship or steamship, company or line, or upon any ship or steamship, belonging to such company or line, or upon any ship or steamship whatsoever, or who by means of any such conspiracy, shall obtain, or attempt to obtain, any money or other property, for the purpose, or under the pretense of procuring or securing such passage or right of passage, conveyance or right of conveyance, ticket or instrument, as aforesaid, shall, on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in state prison for a term not exceeding five years. $ 6. Persons offending against any of the provisions of the conspiracy. last preceding section, may be indicted and convicted for a conspiracy, as at common law, and this although the object of such conspiracy shall have been executed. Offices to ly houses. $7. All offices kept for the purpose of selling passenger ed disorder- tickets, in violation of the provisions of this act, or of any of them; and all offices where such sale is made, shall be deemed disorderly houses; and all persons keeping such office, and all persons associating together for the purpose of violating any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and shall, upon conviction, be ished by imprisonment in a county prison for a period not more than six months, nor less than three months; and it shall be the duty of all magistrates of the county where such office is kept, or where such sale has been made, upon due proof thereof, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of all persons that may be found therein. Complaints in regard to pun S8. All complaints regarding the violation of this act, a violation shall be presented by the district attorney of the district of this act. 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. CHAP. I. on board $9. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent Tickets the actual consignees of any line, ship, or steamship, from may be sold selling passenger tickets thereon, or so as to prevent the ship, &c. 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, clerk, or ticket clerk, passenger tickets to passengers upon such ship or steamship, for that or the next immediate trip. &c. $10. In case the departure of any ship or steamship, for a Delays in the departpassage on board of which, to a foreign part, any ticket or ure of ship, instrument hereinbefore mentioned, shall have been sold, shall be delayed more than two days after the day of sailing mentioned on such ticket, or other instrument held as evidence of the right of passage thereon, the person holding such ticket or instrument shall be entitled to his board and lodging in such ship or steamship, without any additional charge, from the second day after the day of departure, as above mentioned, until the actual departure of such ship or steamship, and shall also be entitled to receive from the owners or consignees of such ship or steamship, so detained, the sum of fifty cents per day, for and upon each and every day of such detention; and in case of refusal on the part of the owners, consignees or master of such ship or steamship, so detained as aforesaid, to comply with any of the requisitions of this section, the person holding such ticket or other instrument, as aforesaid, shall be entitled to recover back from the owners or consignees the amount of passage money paid by him, together with his damages for such detention, not exceeding fifty dollars. et shall certain $11. Every ticket or instrument hereinbefore mentioned, Every tick sold, issued or delivered to any person or persons, as evidence specify of a right of passage upon the high seas, from any port in facts, &c. this state, to any port of any other state or nation, and every certificate or order, sold, issued or delivered to any person or persons, for the purpose or under the pretense of the procurement of such ticket or instrument, and every receipt for money paid in whole or in part, for such ticket or instrument, shall state the name of the ship or steamship, for or towards a passage or right of passage on board of which such ticket, instrument, certificate, order or receipt, is or was sold, issued or delivered, the name of the owners or consignees of such ship or steamship, the name of the company or line, if any, to which such ship or steamship belongs, the port or place from which such passage is to commence; the port or place where such passage is to terminate; the day of the month and year upon which the voyage is to commence; the name of the person or persons purchasing such ticket or other instrument, or receiving such order, certificate or receipt, and the amount paid therefor; and such ticket or instrument, order, certificate or receipt, unless sold by the company, owners or consignees of such ship or steamship, shall be signed by the |