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may pass as genuine any note purporting to be a note of a bank
which does not exist, shall be deemed a felon, and shall, on being
convicted thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than two nor more than ten years.

30. Any person who may pass within this State any forged or
counterfeited note or notes, knowing them to be such, purport-
ing to be genuine note or notes of a bank which has been, or
may be regularly constituted by this State, or any of the United
States, or by the United States, shall be deemed a felon, and shall
oa being convicted thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for
not less than two nor more than ten years.

31. If any person shall be convicted a second time of the
crime mentioned in the preceding section, he shall be sentenced
to the penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than twenty
years.

32. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counter-
feit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged or
counterfeited, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making,
altering, forging or counterfeiting, or shall utter, publish, or pass,
knowing it to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited,
any warrant, letter or paper, writing or order, for payment of
money or delivery of goods, or other valuable articles, whether-
the said warrant or order contain a simple request to pay the
said money, or deliver the said goods or other valuable articles
or not, with the intention to defraud any person, or any person
who shall knowingly and fraudulently obtain any money, goods,
or other thing of value by means of any such warrant, letter,
paper, writing or order, shall be deemed a felon, and on con-
viction shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than ten years.

33. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any manifest or
note of any inspector of tobacco, or alter the quantity or quality
of tobacco expressed in such manifest or note, or shall offer, or
cause to be offered in payment, any such forged, counterfeited,
or altered manifest or note, knowing the same to be forged,
counterfeited or altered, and shall be thereof convicted, he shall
be fined in any sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, or sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for any term not less than eighteen
months nor more than seven years, or both, in the discretion of
the court.