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Forging instruments made evidence by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance.
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Forgery as to the registry of deeds.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1865.
Forgery.
process, knowing the same to be false, 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.
30. Whosoever shall forge or fraudulently alter or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any instrument, whether written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, which is or shall be made evidence in this Colony by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed, and for which offence no punishment is herein provided, 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.
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As to forging Registers of Deeds.
31. Whosoever shall forge or fraudulently alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any memorial, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, entry, certificate, indorsement, document, or writing made or issued under the provisions of any Ordinance passed or hereafter to be passed for or relating to the registry of deeds, or shall forge or counterfeit the seal of or belonging to any office for the registry of deeds, or any stamp or impression of any such seal; or shall forge any name, handwriting or signature purporting to be the name, handwriting or signature of any person to any such memorial, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, entry, certificate, indorsement, document, or writing, which shall be required or directed to be signed by or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed; or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any such memorial or other writing as in this section before mentioned, having thereon any such forged stamp or impression of a seal, or any such forged name, handwriting, or signature, 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 fourteen years, and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for
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792
Forging instruments made
evidence by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance.
[* than]
Forgery as to the registry of deeds.
ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1865.
Forgery.
process, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be hable, 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.
30. Whosoever shall forge or fraudulently alter or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any instrument, whether written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, which is or shall be made evidence in this Colony by any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed, and for which offence no punishment is herein provided, 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 pot exceeding seven years and not less three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confine-
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ment.
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As to forging Registers of Deeds.
31. Whosoever shall forge or fraudulently alter, or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any memorial, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, entry, certificate, indorsement, document, or writing made or issued under the provisions
of
any Ordinance passed or hereafter to be passed for or relating to the registry of deeds, or shall forge or counterfeit the seal of or belonging to any office for the registry of deeds, or any stamp or impression of any such seal; or shall forge any name, handwriting or signature purporting to be the name, handwriting or signature of any person to any such memorial, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, entry, certificate, indorsement, document, or writing, which shall be required or directed to be signed by or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance passed or to be passed; or shall offer, utter, dispose of, or put off any such memorial or other writing as in this section before mentioned, having thereon any such forged stamp or impression of
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handwriting, or signature, kny such seal, or any such forged name,
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 fourteen years, and not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for
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