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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 17TH JUNE, 1865.

Dividend or Money payable in respect of any such Share or Interest, or shall demand endeavour to have any such Share or Interest transferred, or to receive any Dividend or Money payable in respect thereof, by virtue of any such forged or altered Power of Attorney or other Authority, knowing the same to be forged or altered, with Intent in any of the Cases aforesaid to defraud, shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted hereof shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for

for

Term not less than Three Years,-or to be imprisoned for any Term not Life or any exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour and with or without Solitary Confinement.

4. Whosoever shall falsely and deceitfully personate any Owner of any Share or Interest of or in any Stock, Annuity, or other Public Fund which now is or hereafter may be transferable at any Bank or Public Office in this Colony, or any Owner of any Share or Interest of or in the Capital Stock of any Bank or of any Body Corporate, Company, or Society which now is or hereafter may be established by Charter, or by, under, or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, or any Owner of any Dividend or Money payable in respect of any such Share or Interest as aforesaid, or any Owner of any Money deposited in any Savings' Bank in this Colony, and shall thereby transfer or endeavour to transfer- any Share or Interest belonging to any such Owner or thereby receive or endeavour to receive any Money due to any such Owner, as if such Offender were the true and lawful Owner, 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 Yo

(cars, —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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Personating the Owner of Stock or Bank Shares, and transferring or receiv- ing, &c., Dividends.

for Transfer of Stock,

5. Whosoever shall forge any Name, Handwriting, or Signature purporting to be Forging Attestation the Name, Handwriting, or Signature of a Witness attesting the Execution of any Power to Power of Attorney of Attorney or other Authority to transfer any Share or Interest of or in any such Stock, &c. Annuity, Public Fund, or Capital Stock as is in either of the last Two preceding Sections mentioned, or to receive any Dividend or Money payable in respect of any such Share or Interest, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any such Power of Attorney or other Authority, with any such forged Name, Handwriting, or Signature thereon, knowing the same to be forged, 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.

6. Whosoever shall wilfully make any false Entry in or wilfully alter any Word or Making false Entries Figure in, any of the Books of Account kept at any Savings Bank in this Colony or by in Bank Books. any Body Corporate, Company or Society which now is or hereafter may be 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 Terin not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.

Warrants.

7. Whosoever, being a Clerk, Officer or Servant of or other Person employed or Bank Clerks making atrusted in the business of any Savings Bank in this Colony or by any such Body out false Dividend 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 ess 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, prisoned for any Terin not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labour, and with or without Solitary Confinement.

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