THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH APRIL, 1865.
shall knowingly and unlawfully insert or cause or permit to be inserted in any such Register, or in any certified Copy thereof, any false entry of any Matter relating to any Birth, Baptisin, Marriage, Death, or Burial, or shall knowingly and unlawfully give any false Certificate relating to any Birth, Baptism, Marriage, Death, or Burial, or shall certify any Writing to be a Copy or Extract from any such Register, knowing such Writing, or the Part of such Register whereof such Copy or Extract shall be so given, to be false in any material Particular, or shall forge or counterfeit the Scal of or belong- ing to any Register Office or Burial board, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any such Register, Entry, certified Copy, Certificate, or Seal, knowing the same to be false, forged, or altered, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any Copy of any Entry in any such Register, knowing such entry to be false, forged, or altered, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
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in copies of Register sent to Registrar.
37. Whosoever shall knowingly and wilfully insert or cause or permit to be inserted Making false Entries in any Register directed or required by Law to be transmitted to any Registrar or other Officer any false Entry of any matter relating to any Baptism, Marriage or Burial, or shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Copy of any Register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, or shall knowingly and wilfully sign or verify any Copy of any Register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which Copy shall be false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false, or shall unlawfully destroy, deface, or injure, or shall for any fraudulent Purpose take from its Place of Deposit, or conceal, any such Copy of any Register, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
As to demanding Property upon Forged Instruments:-
ments.
38. Whosoever, with Intent to defraud, shall demand, receive, or obtain, or cause Demanding Property or procure to be delivered or paid to any l'erson, or endeavour to receive or obtain, or upon forged Instru- to cause or procure to be delivered or paid to any Person, any Chattel, Money, Security for Money, or other Property whatsoever, under, upon, or by virtue of any forged or altered Instrument whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or altered, or under, upon, or by virtue of any attested Copy of any Will, Testainent, Codicil, or Testamentary Writing, deposited in any Registrar's Office in this Colony, knowing the Will, Testament, Codicil, or Testamentary Writing in respect of which such attested Copy shall have been obtained to have been forged or altered, or knowing such attested Copy to have been obtained by any false Oathi, Affirmation, Declaration, or Affidavit, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Fourteen Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
As to other Matters:-
Instru- ment however designa-
39. Where by this or by any other Ordinance any P'erson is or shall hereafter be Forging any made liable to Punishment for forging or altering, or for offering, uttering, disposing of, ted which is in Law a or putting off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Instrument or Writing Will, Deed, Bill of designated in such Ordinance by any special Name or Description, and such Instrument Exchange, &c. or Writing, however designated, shall be in Law a Will, Testament, Codicil, or Testamentary Writing, or a Mortgage, Lease, Contract, Deed, Bond or Writing Obligatory, or a Bill of Exchange, or a Promissory Note for the Payment of Money, or an Indorsement on or Assignment of a Bill of Exchange or Promissory Note for the Payment of Money, or an Acceptance of a Bill of Exchange, or an Undertaking, Warrant, Order, Authority, or Request for the Payment of Money, or an Indorsement on or Assignment of an Undertaking, Warrant, Order, Authority, or Request for the Payment of Money, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Ordinance, in every such Case the Person forging or altering such Instrument or Writing, or offering, uttering, disposing of, or putting off uch Instrument or Writing, knowing the same to be forged or altered, may be indicted as an Offender against this Ordinance, and punished accordingly.