EDWARD LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
to be treated as herein after prescribed. 6th. If any person
shall
feloniously steal, take and carry away, the personal goods of another
under the value of five dollars, or if any person shall break into any
shop, storehouse, tobacco-house or warehouse, although the same be
not contiguous to, or used with, any mansion-house, and steal any
money, goods or chattels, under the value of one dollar, the same
order and course of trial shall be had and observed as for other simple
larcenies, and being thereof convicted, shall be deemed guilty of
petty larceny, and shall restore the goods and chattels so stolen,
or pay the full value thereof, to the owner or owners thereto, and
be further sentenced to undergo a similar confinement for a period
not less than three months nor more than one year, under the same
conditions as herein after expressed. 7th. Robbery or larceny
of
any obligation or bond, bill obligatory or bill of exchange, bank
note or notes, promissory note for the payment of money, lottery
ticket, paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the authority
of this state or of the United States, or any of them, or of
any last will and testament, or codicil, shall be punished in the
same manner as robbery or larceny of goods and chattels. 8th.
Every person who shall be duly convicted of the crime of receiving
any stolen money, goods or chattels, knowing the same to be stolen,
or of the crime of receiving any bond, bill obligatory, or bill of exchange,
promissory note for the payment of money, lottery ticket,
bank note, paper bill of credit, certificate granted by or under the authority
of this state or of the United States, or any of them, knowing
the same to be stolen, shall restore such money, goods or chattels,
or thing taken and received, to the owner or owners thereof, or
make restitution to the value of the whole, or such part as shall
not be restored, and shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a period not less than three months nor more than ten years,
to be dealt with as herein after directed; and such receiver may be
prosecuted and punished, although the principal offender shall not
have been convicted. 9th. Any person who shall, with a fraudulent
intent, employ an artist to engrave or etch any plate, in imitation
of the note or notes of any established bank within this state,
or of any bank which may hereafter be established within this
state, or which is or may be established by law in any of the United
States, or any person engaged in engraving or etching such
plate or plates, or any person in any manner engaged in striking
impressions from such plate or plates, or any person who shall
affix to such note or notes fraudulent or forged signatures, or any
person who shall, with fraudulent intent, be engaged in manufacturing
of, or furnishing paper in imitation of, any paper used for
striking impressions of notes upon by any established bank within
this state, or any bank which may hereafter be established within
this state, or which is or may be establishes by law in any of the
United States, or any person who shall be in any manner concerned
in the altering, forging or counterfeiting, any note of any bank
now existing within this state, or of any bank which may hereafter
be established within this state, or any person who may pass within
this state forged or counterfeited note or notes, knowing them to
be such, purporting to be the genuine notes of a bank regularly
constituted within this state by the United States, or within any
of them, or any person who may pass as genuine any note, purporting |
NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
6. Of stealing under
the value of
five dollars, or of
breaking into any
shop, store-house,
and stealing under
the value of one
dollar.
7. Of robbery or
larceny of bond,
bills, bank notes,
&c. of wills, &c.
8. Of receiving stolen
money, goods,
bonds, bills, notes,
&c.
9. Of forging bank
notes. |