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A.D. 1865.

A.D. 1865.]

FORGERY.

[No. 4.

167

be forged or

said stamps

be liable, at our for any

years or to or without

off, knowing by share or

I which now

blic office in

of any body ter may be any Act of

ff, knowing y or other uch stock, by dividend est; or

rest trans-

in respect of attorney tered. e guilty of iscretion of y term not :eeding two ry confine-

<, annuity, ansferable

al stock of which now der, or by

et of any

such share or interest as aforesaid; or

(4.) any owner of any money deposited in any savings bank in this

Colony,

and thereby transfers or endeavours to transfer any share or interest belonging to any such owner, or thereby receives or endeavours to re- ceive any money due to any such owner, as if such offender were the true and lawful owner, 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.

6. Every person who--

(1.) forges any name, handwriting, or signature purporting to be the name, handwriting, or signature of a witness attesting the execution of any power of attorney or other authority to transfer any share or interest of or in any such stock, annuity, public fund, or capital stock as is mentioned in either of the last two preceding sections, or to receive any dividend or money payable in respect of any such share or interest; or

(2.) offers, utters, disposes of, or puts off any such power of attorney or other authority, with any such forged name, handwriting, or signature thereon, 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 imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding seven years and not less than three years or to im- prisonment for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour and with or without solitary confinement.

7. Every person who--

(1.) wilfully makes any false entry in, or wilfully alters any word or figure in, any of the books of account kept at any savings bank in this Colony or by any body corporate, company, or society which now is or hereafter may be established by Charter or by, under, or by virtue of any Act of Parliament or Ordinance, in which books the accounts of the owners of any money deposited in such savings bank or of any stock of any such body corporate are entered and kept ; or

(2.) in any manner wilfully falsifies any of the accounts of any such

owners in any of the said books; or

(3.) wilfully makes any transfer of any share or interest of or in any such deposit or stock in the name of any person not being the true and lawful owner of such share or interest,

with intent in any of the cases aforesaid to defraud, shall be guilty of

Forging at- testation to

power of attorney for stock, etc. c. 98 s. 4.

transfer of

24 & 25 Tict..

Making false entry in etc.

bank book.

Ib. s. 5.