If any person shall wilfully obstruct, break, injure, or destroy any bridge, causeway, or ferry, or any appurtenances thereof which shall have been established for the convenience of the public by the proper authority, he shall, on conviction, be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable, further, for all damages occasioned by such wrongful act.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 10, art. 10(1); 1857, ch. 64, art. 157; 1871, § 2620; 1880, § 2867; 1892, § 1141; 1906, § 1219; Hemingway's 1917, § 949; 1930, § 976; 1942, § 2206.
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