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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 engrav-
ing 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 manufacturing or fur-
nishing paper in imitation of any paper used for striking impressions 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 counterfeiting any note or notes of any bank which
has been or may be regularly 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.

An. Code, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 41. 1888, sec. 38. 1797, ch. 96. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 1. 1862, ch. 82.

50. 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 currency by
the United States, or of a bank which has been or may be regularly con-
stituted 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 years.

An. Code, sec. 48. 1904, sec. 42. 1888, sec. 39. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 2.

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

An. Code, sec. 49. 1904, sec. 43. 1888, sec. 40. 1822, ch. 169. 1831, ch. 208, sec. 1.

52. If any person 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 coun-
terfeiting, 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 conviction, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than ten years.