790
Making or
accepting any bill, &c., by procuration without lawful authority, or uttering
such bill, &c., with intent to defraud,
felony.
Obliterating Crossings on cheques.
Forging debentures.
ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1865.
Forgery.
25. Whosoever with intent to defraud shall draw, make, sign, accept, or indorse 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 shall offer, utter, dispose of or put off any such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority or request so made, drawn, 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 be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen 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.
26. Whenever any cheque or draft on any banker shall be crossed with the name of a banker or with two transverse lines with the words "and Company" or any abbreviation thereof, whosoever shall obliterate, add to, or alter any such crossing, or shall offer, utter, dispose of or put 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 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.
27. Whosoever shall fraudulently forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any debenture issued under any lawful authority whatsoever, either within Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere, 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 fourteen 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.
790
Making or
accepting any bill, &c., by procuration without law- ful authority, or uttering
such bill, &c., with intent to defraud,
felony.
Obliterating Crossings on cheques.
Forging debentures.
ORDINANCE No. 6 or 1865.
Forgery.
25. Whosoever with intent to defraud shall draw, make, sign, accept, or indorse any bill of exchange or promissory note or any under- taking, 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 shall offer, utter, dispose of or put off any such bill, note, undertaking, warrant, order, authority or request so made, drawn, 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 be kept in penal servitude for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not ex- ceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement.
26. Whenever any cheque or draft on any banker shall be crossed with the name of a banker or with two transverse lines with the words "and Company" or any abbreviation thereof, whosoever shall obliterate, add to, or alter any such crossing, or shall offer, utter, dispose of or put 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 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.
27. Whosoever shall fraudulently forge or alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any debenture issued under any lawful authority whatsoever, either within Her Majesty's Dominions or elsewhere, 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 fourteen 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.
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