ORDINANCE No. 6 of 1865.
Forgery.
same before a Police Magistrate, to be by him disposed of according to law; and all such matters and things so seized as aforesaid shall by order of the Court where any such offender shall be tried, or in case there shall be no such trial then by order of a Police Magistrate, be defaced and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as such Court or Justice shall direct.
46. Whosoever shall after the commencement of this Ordinance be convicted of an offence which shall have been subjected by any enactment or enactments in force in this Colony to the same pains and penalties as are imposed by the Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled "An Act against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings" for any of the offences first enumerated in the said Act, shall be guilty of felony, and shall, in lieu of such pains and penalties, 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.
799
Other punishments substituted for those of 5 Eliz. c. 14.
All forgeries which were capital before the 1 Wm. 4, c. 66, and are not otherwise punishable under this Ordinance, shall be punished with penal servitude for life, &c.
47. Where by any enactment now in force in this Colony any person falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, erasing, or altering any matter whatsoever, or uttering, publishing, offering, disposing of, putting away, or making use of any matter whatsoever, knowing the same to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, or any person demanding or endeavouring to receive or have anything, or to do or cause to be done any act, upon or by virtue of any matter whatsoever, knowing such matter to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, would according to the provisions contained in any such enactment be guilty of felony and would before the passing of the Act of the first year of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-six, have been liable to suffer death as a felon; or where by any enactment now in force in this Colony any person falsely personating another, or falsely acknowledging anything in the name of another, or falsely representing any other person than the real party to be such real party, or wilfully making a false entry in any book, account, or document, or in any manner wilfully falsifying any part of account or document, or wilfully making any transfer of any stock, annuity, or fund in the name of any person not being the owner thereof, or knowingly taking any false oath, or knowingly making any false affidavit, false affirmation or false declaration or
ORDINANCE No. 6 or 1865.
Forgery.
same before a Police Magistrate, to be by him disposed of according to law; and all such matters and things so seized as aforesaid shall by order of the Court where any such offender shall be tried, or in case there shall be no such trial then by order of a Police Magistrate, be defaced and destroyed or otherwise disposed of as such Court or Justice shall direct.
46. Whosoever shall after the commencement of this Ordinance be convicted of an offence which shall have been subjected by any enactment or enactments in force in this Colony to the same pains and penalties as are imposed by the Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the fifth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled "An Act against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings" for any of the offences first enumer- ated in the said Act, shall be guilty of felony, and shall, in lieu of such pains and penalties, 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 confine-
ment.
799
Other punish- ments substi- tuted for those of 5
Elin. c. 14.
All forgeries which were capital before- the 1 Wm. 4,
not otherwISC punishable under this
shall be punished with penal ser-
&c.
47. Where by any enactment now in force in this Colony any person falsely making, forging, counterfeiting, erasing, or altering any matter whatsoever, or uttering, publishing, offering, disposing of, putting c. 66, and are away, or making use of any matter whatsoever, knowing the same to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, or any person Ordinance, demanding or endeavouring to receive or have any thing, or to do or cause to be done any act, upon or by virtue of any matter whatsoever, knowing end for life, such matter to have been falsely made, forged, counterfeited, erased, or altered, would according to the provisions contained in any such enact- ment be guilty of felony and would before the passing of the Act of the first year of King William the Fourth, chapter sixty-six, have 'been liable to suffer death as a felon; or where by any enactment now in force in this Colony any person falsely personating another, or falsely acknowledg- ing any thing in the name of another, or falsely representing any other person than the real party to be such real party, or wilfully making a false entry in any book, account, or document, or in any manner wilfully falsifying any part of account or document, or wilfully making
any book a transfer of any stock, annuity, or fund in the name of any person not being the owner thereof, or knowingly taking any false oath, or know- ingly making any false affidavit, false affirmation or false declaration or
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