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Principals in the second degree and accessories.
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Forgery.
demanding or receiving any money or other thing by virtue of any probate or letters of administration, knowing the will on which such probate shall have been obtained to have been false or forged, or knowing such probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by means of any false oath, false affirmation or false declaration would according to the provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; or when by any enactment now in force any person making or using, or knowingly having in his custody or possession, any frame, mould, or instrument for the making of paper, with certain words visible in the substance thereof, or any person making such paper, or causing certain words to appear visible in the substance of any paper would, according to the provisions contained in any such enactment, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; then, and in each of the several cases aforesaid, if any person shall after the commencement of this Ordinance be convicted of any such felony as is herein before in this section mentioned, or of aiding, abetting, counselling, or procuring the commission thereof, and the same shall not be punishable under any of the other provisions of this Act,* every such person 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.
48. In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable; and every accessory after the fact to any felony punishable under this Ordinance shall on conviction be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement; and every person who shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, and punished as a principal offender.
49. Whenever any person shall be convicted of a misdemeanor under this Ordinance it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall think fit,
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Principals in the second degree and accessories.
Fine and sureties for keeping the
ORDINANCE No. 6 or 1865.
Forgery.
demanding or receiving any money or other thing by virtue of any probate or letters of administration, knowing the will on which such probate shall have been obtained to have been false or forged, or knowing such probate or letters of administration to have been obtained by means of any false oath, false affirmation or false declaration would according to the provisions contained in any such Act, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; or when by any enactment now in force any person making or using, or knowingly having in his custody or possession, any frame, mould, or instrument for the making of paper, with certain words visible in the substance thereof, or any person making such paper, or causing certain words to appear visible in the substance of any paper would, according to the provisions contained in any such enactment, be guilty of felony, and would before the passing of the said Act of the first year of King William the Fourth have been liable to suffer death as a felon; then, and in each of the several cases aforesaid, if any person shall after the commencement of this Ordinance be convicted of any such felony as is herein before in this section mentioned, or of aiding, abetting, counsel- ling, or procuring the commission thereof, and the same shall not be punishable under any of the other provisions of this Act,* every such person 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.
48. In the case of every felony punishable under this Ordinance, every principal in the second degree, and every accessory before the fact, shall be punishable in the same manner as the principal in the first degree is by this Ordinance punishable; and every accessory after the fact to any felony punishable under this Ordinance shall on conviction be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement; and every person who shall aid, abet, counsel, or procure the commission of any misdemeanor punishable under this Ordinance shall be liable to be proceeded against, indicted, and punished as a prin- cipal offender.
49. Whenever any person shall be convicted of a misdemeanor under this Ordinance it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall think fit,
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