(220 ILCS 55/10) (from Ch. 134, par. 11)

Sec. 10. Any telegraph operator or person employed in any telegraph office in this state, or any other person, who shall, knowing the design thereof, deliver or cause to be delivered any communication prohibited by the preceding section of this act, to any person other than the proper officers, agents or employees of this state or the United States, shall be subject to indictment, and, on conviction, to the punishment provided in said section.

(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 1052.)