PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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FORGERY.

Any person convicted of forging or counterfeiting any manifest or note

of an inspector, or altering the quantity or quality of tobacco ex-

pressed therein, or knowingly offering the same in payment, to be

publicly whipped, or fined not exceeding $300, or sentenced to

hard labour not exceeding seven years, or all of them, at the dis-

cretion of the court — 1801, ch. 63, sec. 26, ....

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For knowingly exporting tobacco with a forged mark, or demanding it

from the inspector on a forged note, the same punishment — 1801,

ch. 63, sec. 27, . . . . . .

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Every person convicted of forging and counterfeiting any gold or silver

coin within the state, or falsely uttering the same, or aiding therein,

to be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary not less than four

nor more than ten years — 1809, ch. 138, sec. 2, .

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Every person who shall affix to a note, in imitation of b.ank notes,

fraudulent or forged signatures, or shall be in any manner con-

cerned in altering, forging or counterfeiting, any bank note then

existing, &c. or who may pass within the state forged or counter-

feited note or notes, knowing them to be such, purporting to be the

genuine notes of a bank regularly constituted, or who may pass as

genuine any note purporting to be of a bank which does not exist,

shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction be confined in the peni-

tentiary not less than five nor more than ten years — 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 6, ...........

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Any person who shall falsely forge or counterfeit, (or cause the same,)

or willingly assist in forging any deed, will, &c. bond, writing obli-

gatory, bill of exchange, promissory note, assignment, acquittance,

&c. with intent to defraud, or shall utter or publish as true any

such forged deed, &.c. shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction be

confined in the penitentiary not less than five nor more than ten

years— 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6, .......

576

Any person falsely making, forging or counterfeiting, (or causing the

same,) or willingly assisting in forging or counterfeiting any corn-

mission, patent or pardon, or any warrant, certificate, &c. whereby

money may be drawn from the treasury, or being concerned in

printing, writing, signing, or passing the same knowingly, with in-

tention to defraud, to be deemed a felon, and confined in the peni-

tentiary not less than two nor more than ten years — 1809, ch. 138,

sec. 8, ...........

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Any person, who shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit, (or

cause or procure the same) or willingly assist in making, &c. or

shall either publish or press, knowing to be falsely made, &c. any

warrant or order for payment of any money, or delivery of goods

or other valuable articles, whether the said warrant contain a sim-

ple request to pay said money, or deliver said goods, &c. with in-

tention to defraud, &c. shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction,

be confined in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more

than three years — 1822, ch. 169, sec. 1,

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