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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 person with fraudulent intent engaged in engrav-
ing 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 manufacturing 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 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 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 peni-
tentiary for not less than two nor more ten years.

1888, art 27, sec. 38. 1860, art. 30, sec. 30. 1797. ch. 96. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 1.

1862, ch. 82.

41. Any person who shall within this State either publish,
offer, dispose of or put off any forged or counterfeit 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 convicted thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for
not less than two nor more than ten years.

Ibid. sec. 39. 1860, art. 30, sec. 31. 1827, ch. 62, sec. 2.

42. 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. 40. 1860, art. 30, sec. 32. 1822, ch. 169. 1831, ch 208, sec. 1

43. If any person shall falsely make, alter, forge or coun-
terfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, altered, forged