Coinage Offences.
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possession any instrument, tool, or engine adapted and intended for the counterfeiting any current copper coin; or
(c) 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 copper coin, at or for a lower rate or value than the same imports or was apparently intended to import; or (d) 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 copper coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit,
shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years.
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Uttering, having in
three
copper coins.
c. 99, s. 15.
15. Any person who- (a) tenders, utters, or puts off any false or counterfeit possession coin resembling, or apparently intended to counterfeit resemble or pass for, any current copper coin, 24 & 25 Vict. knowing the same to be false or counterfeit; or (b) has in his custody or possession three or more pieces of false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current copper coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit, and with intent to utter or put off the same or any of them,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to imprisonment for three years.
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Miscellaneous.
16. Any person who, without lawful authority or Making,
excuse-
mending, or having possession of
24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 24.
(a) knowingly makes or mends, or begins or proceeds coining tool.
to make or mend, or buys or sells, or has in his custody or possession any puncheon, counter puncheon, matrix, stamp, die, pattern, or mould, in or upon which there is or are made or impressed, or which will make or impress, or which is adapted and intended to make or impress the figure, stamp,
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