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..D. 1865.

A.D. 1865.]

FORGERY.

[No. 4.

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or, entry, be false,

. forged, or altered ; or (8.) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any copy of any entry in any such register, knowing such entry to be false, forged, or altered,

shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term 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.

38. Every person who---

(1.) knowingly and wilfully inserts, or causes or permits to be insert- ed, in any register directed or required by law to be transmitted to any Registrar or other officer any false entry of any matter relating to any baptism, marriage, or burial ; or

(2.) forges or alters, or offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off, know- ing the same to be forged or altered, any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid; or

(3.) knowingly and wilfully signs or verifies any copy of any register so directed or required to be transmitted as aforesaid, which copy is false in any part thereof, knowing the same to be false; or (4.) unlawfully destroys, defaces, or injures, or for

any fraudulent purpose takes from its place of deposit or conceals, any such copy of any register,

shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to imprisonment with hard labour for life or for any term not less than three years or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or with- out solitary confinement.

Demanding Property upon Forged Instruments.

Making false entry in copy of re- gister sent to 21 & 25 Vict. Registrar.

c. 98 s. 37.

39. Every person who, with intent to defraud, demands, receives, or Demanding obtains, or causes or procures to be delivered or paid to any person, or

property endeavours to receive or obtain, or to cause or procure to be delivered or instrument.

upon forged paid to any person, any chattel, money, security for money, or other

b. s. 35. property whatsoever under, upon, or by virtue of any forged or altered instrument whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or altered, or under, upon, or by virtue of any attested copy of any will, testament, codicil, or testamentary writing deposited in any Registrar's office in this Colony, knowing the will, testament, codicil, or testamentary writ- ing in respect of which such attested copy has been obtained to have been forged or altered, or knowing such attested copy to have been obtained by any false oath, affirmation, declaration, or affidavit, shall be guilty of felony, and, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the