ART. 27] COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY. 325

1904, art. 27, sec. 39. 1888, art. 27, sec. 36. 1860, art. 30, sec. 28. 1707, ch. 4.
1729, ch. 2. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 2.

45. Every person who shall be convicted of having forged and coun-
terfeited any gold or silver coin, which now is or hereafter shall be
passing or in circulation within this State, or of having falsely uttered,
paid or tendered in payment, any such counterfeit and forged coin,
knowing the same to be forged and counterfeited, or of having aided,
abetted or commanded the perpetration of either of the said crimes,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
than ten vears.

Ibid. sec. 40. 1888, art. 27, sec. 37. 1860, art. 30, sec. 29. 1790, ch. 5
1793, ch. 35. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6. 1862, ch. 82.

46. 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 be hern-
after established within this State, or which is or may be established by
law in any of the United States, or any note or notes issued as currency
by the United States, or any person with fraudulent intent engaged in
engraving or etching such plate, or any person with like intent in any
manner engaged in striking impressions from such 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 manufactur-
ing or furnishing paper in imitation of any paper used for striking im-
pressions of notes upon any established bank within this State, or 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 who shall falsely make, alter, forge or counterfeit, or cause or
procure to be falsely made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or shall
willingly aid or assist in falsely making, altering, forging or counter-
feiting any note or notes of any bank which has been or may be regu-
larly constituted by this State, or by any of the United States, 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.

Ibid. sec. 41. 1888, art. 27, sec. 38. 1860, art. 30, sec. 30. 1797, ch 96.
1827, ch. 62, sec. 1. 1862, ch. 82.

47. Any person who shall within this State either publish, offer, dis-
pose of or put off any forged or counterfeit note or notes, knowing them
to be such, purporting to be the genuine note or notes issued as cur-
rency by the United States, or of a bank which has been or may be
regularly constituted by this State, or by any of the United States, or
by the United States, and any person who shall either publish, offer,
dispose of or put off 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 vears.