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CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, ETC. [ART. 72.

person with like intent in any manner engaged in striking impres-
sions from such plates, or any person who shall affix to such note
or notes fraudulent or forged signatures, 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 hereafter be established within this State, or which is or
may be established by law in any of the United States, or any per-
son 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 coun-
terfeiting 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-

Punishment.

tenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more than ten
years.

1862, c 82
Uttering forged
bank notes.

70. 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 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

Punishment.

to the penitentiary, for not less than two nor more than ten years

Art 30, 9 31.
1827, c 62, s 2
Second offence

71. If any person shall be convicted a second time of the crime
mentioned in the preceding section, he shall be sentenced to the

Punishment.

penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than twenty years.

Id s. 32
1822, c 169,
1831, c 208, s 1.
Forging or
altering order
or warrant for
the payment of
money, or ob-
taining goods
under forged
order.

72. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit,
or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counter-
feited, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, altering,
forging, or counter foiling, 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 fraudu-
lently obtain any money, goods, or other thing of value by means
of any such warrant, letter, paper, writing, or order, shall be deemed

Punishment.

a felon, and on conviction shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for
not less than two nor more than ten years.

Id s 33
1789, c 26, s 36 ;
1801, c 63, s 10
Forging, alter-
ing, or offering
forged manifest
or note or
inspector of
tobacco

73. If any person shall forge or counterfeit any manifest or note
of any inspector of tobacco, or alter the quantity or quality of
tobacco expressed in such manifest or note, or shall offer, or cause to
be offered in payment, any such forged, counterfeited, or altered
manifest or note, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or