470 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

mission, patent or pardon, or any warrant, certificate or other
public security, whereby money may be drawn from the treasury
of this State, or shall be concerned in printing, writing, signing
or passing any such forged or counterfeited warrant, certificate
or public security, knowing it to be such, with intention to
defraud any person or persons, he shall be deemed a felon, and
on being convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for a period not less than two nor more than ten years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 26. 1717, ch. 8. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 2.

34. Every person who shall be convicted of the crime of coun-
terfeiting the great seal of the State, for the time being, or the
seal of any court, or any other public seal of this State, and of
making use of' the same, or of stealing any of the said true seals,
or of unlawfully, falsely and corruptly, or with evil intent, affix-
ing any of them to any deed, warrant or writing, or who shall be-
convicted of having in his possession or custody such counterfeit
instrument, and shall wilfully conceal the same, knowing it to be
falsely made or counterfeited, shall be sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1858, ch. 269, sec. 4.

35. If any person shall counterfeit the stamp of the comp-
troller, or unlawfully use or steal the same, or unlawfully, falsely
and corruptly, or with evil intent, affix it to any instrument of
writing, or shall have in his possession or custody such counter-
feit instrument, and shall wilfully conceal the same, knowing it
to be falsely made or counterfeited, he shall, upon conviction, be
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a.
period not less than two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 28. 1707, ch. 4. 1729, ch. 2. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 2.

36. Every person who shall be convicted of having forged and
counterfeited any gold or silver coin, which now is or hereafter
shall be passing or in circulation within this State, or of having;
falsely uttered, paid, or tendered in payment, any such counter-
feit and forged coin, knowing the same to be forged and counter-
feited, or of having aided, abetted or commanded the perpetration