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or for obtaining any property by false pretences, to allege that
the defendant did the act with intent to defraud, without alleg-
ing the intent of the defendant to be to defraud any particular
person, and on the trial of any of the offences in this section men-
tioned it shall not be necessary to prove an intent on the part of
the defendant to defraud any particular person, but it shall be
sufficient to prove that the defendant did the act charged with an
intent to defraud. In any indictment for forging, altering, put-
ting off, passing, stealing, embezzling, destroying, or for obtaining
by false pretences any instrument it shall be sufficient to describe
such instrument by any name or designation by which the same
may be usually known or by the purport thereof, without set-
ting out a copy or facsimile thereof, or otherwise describing the
same. In all other cases, whenever it shall be necessary to make
any averment in any indictment as to any instrument, whether
the same consists wholly or in part of writing, print, or figures,
it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name
or designation by which the same may be usually known or by
the purport thereof, without setting out any copy or fac simile of
the whole or any part thereof; provided, that nothing herein con-
tained shall apply to offences committed before the passage of
this act.

RUNAWAYS.

The Act of 1862, ch. 224, repeals sections 174, 175.

SENTENCE OF NEGROES.

The Act of 1862, ch. 106, amends and re-enacts sections 104, 195, 196, 198, as follows:

6. When any negro, whether free or slave, is convicted of any
offence, the punishment for which, if he were a white man, would
be confinement in. the penitentiary, such negro shall be sentenced
to be sold either in or out of the State, for such term as the
court may deem right, or to be confined in the penitentiary, for
such term as a white man would be confined for the same of-
fence, or to receive any number of lashes not exceeding forty, in
the discretion of the court; and in any case which has heretofore
occurred, wherein sentence has been passed for the sale of any
negro so convicted out of the State, it shall and may be lawful
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