790 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

or counterfeited, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely
making, altering, forging or counterfeiting, or shall utter, pub-
lish, 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 contain¹ 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 fraudu-
lently 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 than ten years.

1892, ch. 357, sec. 1.

44. 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 associa-
tion or union, it shall not be lawful for any person or corpora-
tion to counterfeit or imitate such label, trade-mark or form of
advertisement; 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 impris-
onment 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 hun-
dred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or both, in
the discretion of the court.

Ibid. sec. 2.

45. 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 upon conviction by any court
having criminal jurisdiction, be punished by imprisonment in
the city or county jail for a term of not less than one month
nor more than one year, or by a fine of not less than one hun-
dred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or both, in
the discretion of the court, and the burden of proving that the
defendant did not know the true character of the said label,
trade-mark or form of advertisement, and that he used the
same in good faith shall be on the defendent.