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1.D. 1865.

A.D. 1865.]

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FORGERY.

[No. 4. 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 imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen years and not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.

Forgery of Records, Process, Instruments of Evidence, etc.

Court of

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Record, Equity, or Court of Vice-

Admiralty,

24 & 25 Tiet.

c. 98 s. 27.

29. Every person who forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, Forging disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently of Court of proceeding altered, any record, writ, return, panel, process, rule, order, warrant, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, recognizance, cognovit actionem, or warrant of attorney, or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court of Record, or any bill, petition, process, notice, rule, answer, pleading, interrogatory, deposition, affidavit, affirmation, declaration, report, order, or decree or any original document whatsoever of or belonging to any Court of Equity or Court of Vice- Admiralty in this Colony, or any document or writing or any copy of any document or writing used or intended to be used as evidence in any Court mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to im- prisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.

30. Every person who,~-

Forging copy or certificate of record or

process of Record, and

Court not of

(1.) being the clerk of any Court or other officer having the custody of the records, of any Court, or being the deputy of any such clerk or officer, utters

any false copy or certificate of any record, knowing the same to be false; or, (2.) not being such clerk, officer, or deputy, signs or certifies any 16. s. 28.

copy or certificate of any record as such clerk, officer, or deputy; or

(3.) forges or fraudulently alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, knowing the same to be forged or fraudulently altered, any copy or certificate of any record, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any copy or certificate of any record having thereon any false or forged name, handwriting, or signature, knowing the same to be false or forged; or

(4.) forges the seal of any Court of Record in this Colony; or (5.) forges or fraudulently alters any process of any Court other than such Courts as are mentioned in the last preceding section; or (6.) serves or enforces any forged process of any Court whatsoever,

using forged process.