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Supplement to the Maryland Code, 1862
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ART. 80. ] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 31

ARTICLE XXX.

Crimes and Punishments.

COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY.

The Act of 1862, ch. 82, repeals sections 29, 30, and enacts the following as substitutes:

SEC. 1. 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 hereafter 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 etch-
ing such plate, or any person with like intent in any manner en-
gaged in striking impressions from such plates, or any person
who shall affix to such note or notes fraudulent or forged signa-
tures, 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 any established
bank within this State, or any bank which may be hereafter es-
tablished 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 sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than
ten years.

2. Any person who shall within this State either publish, offer,
dispose of, or put off any forged or counterfeited 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 constituted by this State, or
by any of the United States, or by the United States, or any

 

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