ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1865.
Coinage Offences.
any such penalty shall not be forthwith paid, it shall be lawful for such any Magistrate to commit the person who shall have been adjudged to pay the same to the common gaol, there to be kept to hard labour for the space of three months, or until such penalty shall be paid.
24. Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the party accused), shall knowingly make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or buy or sell, or have in his custody or possession, any puncheon, counter puncheon, matrix, stamp, die, pattern, or mould, in or upon which there shall be made or impressed, or which will make or impress, or which shall be adapted and intended to make or impress, the figure, stamp, or apparent resemblance of both or either of the sides of any of the Queen's current gold or silver coin, or of any coin of any foreign prince, state, or country, or any part or parts of both or either of such sides; or shall make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or shall buy or sell, or have in his custody or possession, any edger, edging or other tool, collar, instrument, or engine adapted and intended for the marking of coin round the edges with letters, grainings, or other marks or figures apparently resembling those on the edges of any such coin as in this section aforesaid, knowing the same to be so adapted and intended as aforesaid; or shall make or mend, or begin or proceed to make or mend, or shall buy or sell, or have in his custody or possession, any press for coinage, or any cutting engine for cutting by force of a screw or of any other contrivance, round blanks out of gold, silver, or other metal or mixture of metals, or any other machine, knowing such press to be a press for coinage, or knowing such engine or machine to have been used or to be intended to be used for or in order to the false making or counterfeiting of any such coin as in this section aforesaid, 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.
Making, having mendi 867 of possession any coining tools, felony. tools or monies out of the mint
25. Whosoever, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof Conveying whereof shall lie on the party accused), shall knowingly convey out of the mint any puncheon, counter-puncheon, matrix, stamp, die, pattern, without mould, edger, edging or other tool, collar, instrument, press, or engine, felony. used or employed in or about the coining of coin, or any useful part of authority,