ART. 27.] COUNTERFEITING AND FORGERY. 471

of either of the said crimes, shall be sentenced to the penitentiary
for not less than two nor more than ten years.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 30, sec 29. 1790, ch. 5. 1793, ch 35. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 6.

1862, ch. 82.

37. Any person who shall, with a fraudulent intent, employ an
artist to engrave or etch any plate in imitation of the note or
notes of any established bank within this State, or of any bank
which may be hereafter established within this State, or which is
or may be established by law in any of the United States, or any
note or notes issued as currency by the United States, or any per-
son with fraudulent intent engaged in engraving or etching such
plate, or any person with like intent in any manner engaged in
striking impressions 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 manufac-
turing 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 person 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 counterfeiting 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 sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for not less than two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 30. 1797, ch 96. 1827, ch. 62, sec 1. 1862, ch. 82.
38. 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, and
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 con-
victed thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
two nor more than ten years.