472 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27,
P. G. L., (1860,) art 30, sec. 81. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 2.
39. If any person shall be convicted a second time of the
crime mentioned in the preceding section, he shall be sentenced to
the penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than twenty years.
Ibid. sec. 32. 1822, ch. 169. 1831, ch. 208, sec. 1.
40. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge or counter-
feit, 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, 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 fraudulently obtain any money, goods or
other thing of value by means of any such warrant, letter, paper,
writing or order, shall be deemed a felon, and on conviction, shall
be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than two nor more
thou ten years.
Ibid. sec. 33. 1789, ch. 26, sec. 36. 1801, ch. 63, sec. 10.
41. 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, counter-
feited or altered, and shall be thereof convicted, he shall be fined
in any snm not exceeding three hundred dollars, or sentenced to
the penitentiary for any term not less than eighteen months nor
more than seven years, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Ibid. sec. 34. 1789, ch. 26, sec 37. 1867, ch. 56.
42. If any person shall export or cause to be exported, any
hogshead of tobacco marked with a forged or counterfeited mark,
or demand tobacco of any inspector upon any forged, counter-
feited or altered manifest or note, knowing such manifest or note,
or such mark, to be forged, counterfeited or altered, he shall be
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