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Making or accepting bill of exchange by procuration without lawful authority, or uttering bill of exchange, etc., so made. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 98 s. 24.
Obliterating, etc., crossing on cheque. Ib. s. 25.
Forging debenture. Ib. s. 26.
No. 4.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1865.
credit, or any indorsement on or assignment of any such undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request, or any accountable receipt, acquittance, or receipt for money, or for goods, or for any note, bill, or other security for the payment of money, or any indorsement on or assignment of any such accountable receipt, with intent, in any of the cases aforesaid, to defraud, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
26. Every person who, with intent to defraud, (1.) draws, makes, signs, accepts, or indorses any bill of exchange or promissory note or any undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request for the payment of money, or for the delivery or transfer of goods or chattels or of any bill, note, or other security for money by procuration or otherwise, for, in the name, or on the account of any other person without lawful authority or excuse;
or (2.) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority, or request so drawn, made, signed, accepted, or indorsed by procuration or otherwise without lawful authority or excuse as aforesaid, knowing the same to have been so drawn, made, signed, accepted, or indorsed as aforesaid, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
27. Whenever any cheque or draft on any banker is crossed with the name of a banker or with two transverse lines with the words "and company" or any abbreviation thereof, every person who (1.) obliterates, adds to, or alters any such crossing; or (2.) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any cheque or draft whereon any such obliteration, addition, or alteration has been made, with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to defraud, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
28. Every person who fraudulently forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, ... either with felony, and the Court, fourteen years or term not exceeding two years, or without...
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29. Every person who disposes of, altered, any interrogatories, cognovit action, or whatsoever process, notice, affirmation, whatsoever Admiralty in document ... any Court ment convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.
30. Every person who (1.) being of the rank or office: the same (2.) not being copy or (3.) forges off, know copy or puts off, false or to be false (4.) forges the (5.) Forges or such Court (6.) serves o...