Coinage Offences.
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6. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, buys, sells, receives, pays, or puts off, or offers to buy, sell, receive, pay, or put off, any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, at or for a lower rate or value than the same imports or was apparently intended to import, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 6.
7. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, imports or receives into the Colony from beyond the seas, or from any part of China, any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 7.
8. Any person who, without lawful authority or excuse, exports or puts on board any ship, vessel, or boat, for the purpose of being exported from the Colony, any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 8.
9. Any person who tenders, utters, or puts off any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 9.
10. Any person who tenders, utters, or puts off any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, and, at the time of such tendering, uttering, or putting off, has in his custody or possession, besides the false or counterfeit coin so tendered, uttered or put off, any other piece of false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, or, either on the day of such tendering, uttering, or putting off...