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8. The preceding sections of this article in relation to the issuing
or circulating of promissory notes, orders, bills, evidences of debt,
and other paper securities, shall receive a liberal interpretation
to suppress the mischief, and any note, bill, order, or other writing
designed or used as money or currency, shall be considered a paper
security within the meaning of the said sections, and the forfeitures
imposed in said sections shall be recovered before a justice of the
peace as small debts, one-half to the informer and the other half to
the State.
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Id s 8
1841, c 321, s 4
Law to be con-
strued liberally.
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9. It shall not be lawful for any person, firm, or association of
persons, corporation, or body politic, to pay out, circulate, or receive
in payment of any debt, any hank note, promissory note, or other
obligation payable to bearer, or indorsed in blank or to bearer, or
any other note, token, scrip, or device whatsoever, devised or in-
tended for circulation as currency, issued without the limits of this
State, of a less denomination than five dollars, under a penalty of
five dollars for each offence, to be recovered by an action of debt in
the name of the State before any justice of the peace of the State;
and it shall not be lawful for any bank, savings institution, corpo-
ration, or body politic of this State, or for any person or associa-
tion of persons, to make, issue, or pay out any note or device of
the nature and character described in this section of a less denomi-
nation than five dollars, under the penalty prescribed in this section
for each offence, and to be recovered in the same manner.
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Id s 9.
1818, c 191,
1820, c. 150, s. 1,
1823, c 147,
1841, c. 302,
1842, c 251, s. 4,
1844, c. Ill,
1892, c 235, s 1
Penalty for cir-
culating notes
of banks of
other States less
than five
dollars
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10. One-half of the penalty recovered in any case under the
preceding section shall go to the informer, and the residue shall be
paid to the collector of county or city taxes, for the use of the
county or city where the same maybe prosecuted for; and in all
cases the informer shall be a competent witness.
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Id s 10
1852, c 235, s 2.
Penalty, how
disposed of
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11. If any person against whom any judgment may be rendered
for the penalty provided by the ninth section of this article shall
not immediately pay the same and the costs of the prosecution, or
give security satisfactory to the justice rendering the judgment for
the payment, he shall be committed to prison, there to remain until
the same shall be paid, or until the expiration of ten days from the
date of the commitment, whichever shall first occur.
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Id s 11
1852, c 235, s 3
Offender to be
commuted on
non-payment.
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