152 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

or property, or any acquittance or receipt either for money or
property, with intention to defraud any person whomsoever, or
shall utter or publish as true, any false, forged, altered or coun-
terfeited deed, will, testament or codicil, bond, writing obliga-
tory, bill of exchange, promissory note for the payment of
money or property, or endorsement or assignment of any bond,
writing obligatory, bill of exchange, promissory note for the pay-
ment of money or property, acquittance or receipt for money or
property, shall be deemed a felon, and on being convicted thereof,
shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than five nor
more than ten years; provided, that nothing contained in this
section shall in any manner affect any cases now pending, or any
violations of the law which have heretofore occurred, but all such
cases and violations shall be prosecuted to a conclusion as if the
law hereby repealed were still in force.

1892, ch. 357.

40 A. Whenever any person, association or union of working-
men have adopted, or shall hereafter adopt for their protection
any label, trade-mark or form of advertisement announcing and
denoting that goods to which such label, trade-mark or form of
advertisement shall or may be attached, were manufactured by
such person or by a member or members of such association or
union, it shall not be lawful for any person or corporation to
counterfeit or imitate such label, trade-mark or form of adver-
tisement; every person violating this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction by any court
having criminal jurisdiction be punished by imprisonment in the
city or county jail for not less than three months nor more than
one year or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor
more than five hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the
court.

Ibid.

40 B. Every person, corporation or association who shall use
any counterfeit or imitation of any label, trade-mark or form of
advertisement of any such person, union or association, knowing
the same to be counterfeit or imitation, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction by any court having crimi-
nal jurisdiction, be punished by imprisonment in the city or