1110 ARTICLE '27

An. Code, 1924, sec. 50. 1912, sec. 47. 1904, sec. 41. 1888, sec. 38. 1797, ch. 96. 1827,

ch. 62, sec. 1. 1862, ch. 82.

51. 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, 1924, sec. 51. 1912, sec. 48. 1904, sec. 42. 1888, sec. 39. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 2.

52. 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, 1924, sec. 52. 1912, sec. 49. 1904, sec. 43. 1888, sec. 40. 1822, ch. 169.

1831, ch. 208, sec. 1.

53. 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.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 53. 1912, sec. 50. 1904, sec. 44. 1892, ch. 357, sec. 1.

54. Whenever any person, association or union of workingmen have
adopted, or shall hereafter adopt for their protection any label, trade-
mark or form of advertisement announcing and denoting that goods to
which such label, trade-mark or form of advertisement shall or may be
attached, were manufactured by such person or by a member or members
of such association or union, it shall not be lawful for any person or cor-
poration to counterfeit or imitate such label, trade-mark or form of ad-
vertisement ; every person violating this section shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction by any court having criminal
jurisdiction be punished by imprisonment in the city or county, jail for
not less than three months npr more than one year or by a fine of not less
than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or both, in

the discretion of the court.

This section referred to in deciding that a labor union, such as the United Mine
Workers of America, is suable in the federal courts and their funds subject to execution.
United Mine Workers v. Coronado Coal Co., 259 U. S. 386.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 54. 1912, sec. 51. 1904, sec. 45. 1892, ch. 357, sec. 2.

55. Every person, corporation or association who shall use any coun-
terfeit or imitation of any label, trade-mark or form of advertisement of