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Bank Clerks making out false Dividend Warrants.
&c.
ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1865.
Forgery.
established by Charter, or by, under, or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, in which Books the Accounts of the Owners of any Money deposited in such Savings Bank or of any Stock of any such Body Corporate shall be entered and kept, or shall in any Manner wilfully falsify any of the Accounts of any such Owners in any of the said Books, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to defraud, or shall wilfully make any Transfer of any Share or Interest of or in any such Deposit or Stock, in the Name of any Person not being the true and lawful Owner of such Share or Interest, with Intent to defraud 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.
VIII. Whosoever, being a Clerk, Officer, or Servant of or other Person employed or intrusted in the business of any Savings Bank in this Colony or by any such Body Corporate, Company or Society as aforesaid, shall knowingly make out or deliver any Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Interest, or Money, for a greater or less Amount than the Person on whose Behalf such Warrant shall be made out is entitled to, with Intent to defraud, 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 Seven 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 forging Bonds, &c.
VIII. Whosoever shall forge, or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, issued or made, any Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security issued or made under the Authority of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed for the raising of any Loan, or for any other Purpose relating to the Public Service, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any such Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security, with Intent to defraud, 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.
Forging Exchequer Bills and Debentures, &c.
As to forging Exchequer Bills, &c.
IX. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Exchequer Bill or Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Receipt or Certificate for Interest accruing thereon, with Intent to defraud, 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.
451
X. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make, or cause or procure to be made, or shall aid or assist in making, or shall knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, Instrument having therein any Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, or Devices, peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be provided or used for Exchequer Bills or Exchequer Bonds or Exchequer Debentures, or any Machinery for working any Threads into the Substance of any Paper, or any such Thread, and intended to imitate such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices, or any Plate peculiarly employed for printing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Die or Seal peculiarly used for preparing any such Plate or for sealing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Plate, Die, or Seal intended to imitate any such Plate, Die, or Seal as 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 any Term not exceeding Seven 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.
XI. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make, or cause or procure to be made, or aid or assist in making any Paper in the Substance of which shall appear any Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be provided or used for such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Part of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall knowingly have in his Custody or Possession any Paper whatsoever, in the Substance whereof shall appear any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Parts of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall cause or assist in causing any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Part of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, to appear in the Substance of any Paper whatever, or shall take or assist in taking any Impression of any such Plate, Die, or Seal as in the last preceding Section mentioned, 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 Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term...
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450
Bank Clerks making out false Dividend Warrants.
&c.
ORDINANCE No. 6. of 1865.
Forgery.
established by Charter, or by, under, or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, in which Books the Accounts of the Owners of any Money deposited in such Savings Bank or of any Stock of any such Body Corporate shall be entered and kept, or shall in any Manner wilfully falsify any of the Accounts of any such Owners in any of the said Books, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to defraud, or shall wilfully make any Transfer of any Share or Interest of or in any such Deposit or Stock, in the Name of any Person not being the true and lawful Owner of such Share or Interest, with Intent to defraud shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Dia- cretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life or for any Term not less thau Three Years.-or to be imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
VIL Whosoever, being a Clerk, Officer, or Servant of or other Person employed or intrusted in the business of any Savings Bank in this Colony or by any such Body Corporate, Company or Society as aforesaid, shall knowingly make out or deliver any Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Interest, or Money, for a greater or less Amount than the Person on whose Behalf such Warrant shall be made out is entitled to, with Intent to defraud, shall be guilty of Felouy, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to he kept in Penal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years, or to be imprisoned for any Term not excoed- ing Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
As to forging Bonds, &c.
VIII. Whosoever shall forge, or alter, or shall offer, utter, Forging Bouds, Debentures,&e. dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, issued or made, any Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security issued or made under the Authority of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed for the raising of any Loan, or for any other Purpose relating to the Public Service, or any Indorsement on or Assign- ment of any such Bond, Debenture, Coupon, or Security, with Intent to defraud, 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.
Forging Ex- chequer Bills and Deben- tures, &c.
As to forging Exchequer Bills, &c.
IX. Whosoever shall forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or altered, any Exchequer Bill or Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Indorsement on or Assignment of any Exchequer Bond or Exchequer Debenture, or any Receipt or Certificato for Interest
acerving
ORDINANCE No. 6. of 1865.
Forgery.
accruing thereon, with Intent to defraud, 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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X. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Proof Making Plates whereof shall lie on the Party accused), shall make, or cause or &c., in Imita- procure to be made, or shall aid or assist in making, or shall tion of those knowingly have in his Custody or Possession, any Frame, Mould, used for Ex-
chequer Bills, or Instrument having therein any Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, &c. Lines, or Devices, peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be provided or used for Exchequer Bills or Exchequer Bonds or Exchequer Debentures, or any Machinery for working any Threads into the Substance of any Paper, or any such Thread, and intended to imitate such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices, or any Plate peculiarly employed for printing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or any Die or Seal peculiarly used for preparing any such Plate or for sealing such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Deben- tures, or any Plate, Die, or Seal intended to imitate any such Plate, Die, or Seal as aforesaid, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Fenal Servitude for any Term not exceeding Seven Years and not less than Three Years,or to be imprisoned for any Termo not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
XI. Whosoever, without lawful Authority or Excuse (the Making Paper Proof whereof shall lic on the Party accused), shall make, or in Imitation of cause or procure to be made, or aid or assist in making any Paper that used for in the Substance of which shall appear any Words, Letters, Exchequer
Bills, &c. Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices peculiar to and appearing in the Substance of any Paper provided or to be pro- vided or used for such Exchequer Bills, Bonds, or Debentures, or y Part of such Words, Lettors, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, aud intended to imitate the same, or shall knowingly have in his Custody or Possession any Paper what- soever, in the Substance whereof shall appear any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Parts of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Linos, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, or shall cause or assist in causing any such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or Devices as aforesaid, or any Part of such Words, Letters, Figures, Marks, Lines, Threads, or other Devices, and intended to imitate the same, to appear in the Substance of any Paper whatever, or shall take or assist in taking any Impression of any such Plate, Die, or Seal as in the last pre- coding Section mentioned, 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 Seven Years and not less than Three Years,or to be imprisoned for any
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