82 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 30.

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.

EMBEZZLING PROPERTY AND WRITINGS.

The Act of 1862, ch. 114, adds the following

3. If any person or persons engaged in transporting coal,
iron, lumber, or other articles of merchandize, or any property
whatever, on any highway, river, railroad or canal, within this
State, shall sell, dispose of, give away, use or pledge the same or
any part thereof, without the consent of the owner or owners
thereof, such person or persons, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine
not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, or by im-
prisonment in the county jail of the county in which the offence
is committed, for a term not more than one year, or by both such
fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.

4. If any person or persons, shall purchase or fraudulently re-
ceive, without the consent of the owner or owners of such prop-
erty, any coal, iron, lumber, or other articles of merchandize,
or any property whatever, consigned to any person in this State
or any other State, or the District of Columbia, knowing the
same to be so consigned, from any captain of a canal boat, or any
other person engaged in transporting the said property, he, she,
or they, so purchasing, shall be liable to pay such owner or
owners double the value of the property so purchased, to be
recovered by civil action, before any justice of the peace, or in
any court having jurisdiction thereof; and the said action may
be brought in the name of either the consignor or consignee.

INDICTMENTS—FORGING—FALSE PRETENCES.

The Act of 1862, ch. 80, adds the following section to this Article:

5. It shall be sufficient in any indictment for forging, uttering,
disposing of, putting off or passing any instrument whatsoever,