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being inserted therein as the Subscriber or Subscribers, or Con-
tributor or Contributors, or Payer or Payers, towards the said
two Loans, or any part or parts thereof, or shall alter any
Number, Figure, or Word therein, or utter or publish as true
any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered Receipt or
Receipts, Debenture or Debentures, with intention to defraud
the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any Body
Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever (1),
every such person or persons so forging or counterfeiting, or
causing or procuring to be forged or counterfeited, or wilfully
acting or assisting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering,
uttering, or publishing as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of
Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without
Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 3. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 3.
If any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit, or procure
to be forged or counterfeited, or knowingly and wilfully act or
assist in the forging or counterfeiting any Letter of Attorney or
other Authority or Instrument, to transfer, assign, sell, or convey
any part or share of or in the principal Sums or Stock, or the
Annuities by this Act made or declared transferrable at the
Bank of England, or to receive any Annuity or Annuities, or
Interest, or Dividend or Dividends, in pursuance of this Act,
payable at the Bank of England, or any part thereof, or shall
forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or
knowingly and wilfully act or assist in the forging or counter-
feiting, any the name or names of any the Proprietor or Proprie-
tors of any such part or share of or in such principal Sums
or Stock, or Annuities, Interest, Dividend or Dividends as
aforesaid, in or to any such pretended Letter of Attorney,
Instrument or Authority, or shall knowingly and fraudulently
demand or endeavour to have any such part or share of or in
such principal Sums or Stock, or Annuities, Interest, Dividend
or Dividends, or any part thereof, transferred, assigned, sold,
or conveyed, or such Annuity or Annuities, Interest, Dividend
or Dividends, or any part thereof, to be received by virtue of
any such counterfeit or forged Letter of Attorney, Authority,
or Instrument, or shall falsely and deceitfully personate any true
and real Proprietor or Proprietors of the said shares of or in

(1) "such Receipt or Receipts, Debenture or Debentures, concerning some Part or Share of or in the principal Sums or Stocks, or the Annuities by this Act made or declared transferrable at the Bank of England." These words are added in the Statute 37 G. 3. c. 46.

Persons forging letters of attorstock, &c. or prietors, to suffer Death.

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the said principal Sums or Stock, Annuities, Interest, Dividend or Dividends, or any of them, or any part thereof, and thereby transferring or endeavouring to transfer, any part or share of or in the said principal Sums or Stock, or Annuities, or receiving, or endeavouring to receive the Money of such true and lawful Proprietor or Proprietors, as if such offender or offenders were the true and lawful Owner or Owners thereof; then and in every or any such case, such offender or offenders shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 4. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 4. (1)

If any person or persons shall forge, counterfeit, or alter any Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for payment of any Annuity, Interest, or Money payable in pursuance of this Act at the Bank of England, or any indorsement thereon, or shall offer or dispose of, or put away any such forged, counterfeited, or altered Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for payment of any Annuity, Interest, or Money payable as aforesaid, or the Indorsement thereon, or demand the Money therein contained or pretended to be due thereon, or any part thereof, of the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any their Officers or Servants, knowing such Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for payment of any Annuity, Interest, or Money, payable as aforesaid, or the Indorsement thereon, to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or their Successors, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, every person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer death as a Felon or Felons, without benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 5. 37 G 3. c. 46. s. 5. If any Officer or Servant of the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, being entrusted with any Note, Bill, Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Annuity or Interest, or Money, or any Security Money, or other Effects, of or belonging to the said Governor and Company, or having any Note, Bill, Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Annuity or Interest, or Money, or any Security Money, or other Effects, of any other person or persons, Body Politic or Corporate, lodged or deposited with the said Governor and Company, or with him as an Officer or Servant of the said Go

(1) This clause is in substance precisely similar to the first section of the Statute 8 G. 1. c. 22. ante, pages 255, 256.

transfers in any but names of

suffer Death.

vernor and Company, in pursuance of this Act, or of the due execution thereof, shall secrete, embezzle, or run away with any such Note, Bill, Dividend or other Warrant, Security Money, or other Effects as aforesaid, or any part thereof; every such Officer or Servant, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon, without Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 6. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 6. (1) If any person or persons shall wilfully make, or assist in Persons making making, any Transfer of any Interest, Part, or Share of or in any principal Sums or Stock, Annuity or Annuities, by this proprietors, to Act made or declared transferrable at the Bank of England, in any of the Books of the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England in which Transfers of principal Sums, Stock, or Annuities as aforesaid are or in pursuance of this Act shall be made, in the Name or Names of any person or persons not being the Owner or Owners, or Proprietor or Proprietors, of such principal Sums or Stock, or Annuity or Annuities, transferrable as aforesaid, with intent to defraud the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, such person or persons so making or assisting in making such Transfer as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 8. c. 66. s. 7. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 7.

suffer Death.

If any person or persons whatsoever shall falsely make, forge, Persons forging or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, transfers, & or counterfeited, or shall wilfully act or assist in the falsely making, forging or counterfeiting, of any Transfer of any Interest, Part, or Share of or in any Principal Sums or Stock, or Annuity or Annuities, by this Act made or declared transferrable at the Bank of England, or shall utter or publish as true any such false, forged, or counterfeited Transfer as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to defraud the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, all and every person or persons whatsoever so, offending shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 8. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 8. any person or persons whatsoever shall wilfully make, or assist in making, any false Entry, or shall wilfully alter, or assist false entry in the

If

(1) See title LARCENY.

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in altering, any Word or Figure in any Entry in the Books of Account kept, or in pursuance of this Act to be kept by the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, wherein the several Accounts of the Owners or Proprietors of principal Sums or Stock, or Annuities, by this Act made or declared transferrable at the Bank of England, are or in pursuance of this Act shall be entered and kept, or shall in any manner wilfully falsify the Account or Accounts of any such Owner or Proprietor in the Books of the said Governor and Company, wherein such Accounts are or in pursuance of this Act shall be entered and kept, with intent to defraud the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever, every such person or persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of Felony, and shall suffer Death as a Felon or Felons, without Benefit of Clergy. 35 G. 3. c. 66. s. 9. 37 G. 3. c. 46. s. 9.

The tenth sections respectively of each of the above Statutes recite, that " in order to cover and conceal Forgeries and Frauds in Transfers, Dividend Warrants have been sometimes made out for different Sums than the Sums really due;" and then enact, that if any Clerk, Officer, or Servant of, or other person or persons employed or entrusted by the said Governor and Company, shall from and after the passing of this Act, knowingly or wilfully make out or deliver, or cause or procure to be made out or delivered, or wilfully act or assist in the making out or delivering of any Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Annuity or Interest, or Money, payable in pursuance of this Act at the Bank of England, for a greater or less amount than the person or persons on whose behalf, or pretended behalf, such Dividend Warrant, or Warrant for Payment of any Annuity or Interest, or Money payable as aforesaid, shall be made out, is or are entitled to, with intent to defraud the said Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or any other Body Politic or Corporate, or any person or persons whatsoever; all and every such person or persons so offending, being in due Form of Law convicted of any such Offence or Offences as aforesaid, shall be transported for Seven Years. 35 G. 3. c. 66. 37 G. 3. c. 46.

The seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth sections of the above Acts are in substance precisely the same as the first, second, third, and fourth sections of the Statute 33 G. 3. c. 30., before noticed; but as, on account of their subject matter, there is some small variance in the wording, it has been thought right to insert all the sections of the several Acts at length.

III. Forging the Notes and other Securities of the Bank of
England, and other Public Companies.

(And see Title BANK OF ENGLAND.)

i. Bank Notes and other Securities of the Bank of England.

(And see Division II. of this Title.)

the common seal

Be it enacted, that the forging or counterfeiting the Common Offenders forging Seal of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of the of the Bank of Bank of England, or of any sealed Bank Bill made or given out England, ousted of clergy. in the name of the said Governor and Company for the payment of any sum of money, or of any Bank Note of any sort whatsoever, signed for the said Governor and Company, or the altering or rasing any Indorsement on any Bank Bill or Note of any sort, shall be and is hereby declared and adjudged to be Felony, without benefit of Clergy. 8, 9 W. 3. c. 20. s. 36.

vending, &c.

the indorsement

If any person or persons shall alter, forge, or counterfeit any Forging, erasing, Bank Bill or Bank Note, made or given out for the payment of Bank of England any sum of money by or for the said Governor and Company [of notes or bills, or the Bank of Fngland], or any Bank Note of any sort whatsoever, thereon, Felony. or shall erase or alter any such Bill or Note, or any Endorsement thereupon, or shall tender in payment, utter, vend, exchange, or barter any such altered, forged, or counterfeited Bill or Note, or any erased or altered Bill or Note, or the Endorsement thereupon, or demand to have the same exchanged for ready money by the said Governor and Company or their Successors, or any other person or persons (knowing such Bill or Note, or the Endorsement thereupon so tendered or demanded to be exchanged, vended, or bartered, to be altered, forged, counterfeited, or erased), and with intention to defraud the said Governor and Company or their Successors, or any other person or persons, Body Politick or Corporate, then every such person or persons so offending (being thereof lawfully convicted) shall be and is hereby declared and adjudged a Felon, and shall suffer as in cases of felony. 11 G. 1. c. 9. s. 6.

or altering any

If any person or persons shall forge, counterfeit, or alter any Persons forging Bank Note, Bank Bill of Exchange, Dividend Warrant, or any bank note, &c. Bond or Obligation under the Common Seal of the said Com- dividend warpany (1), or any Indorsement thereon, or shall offer or dispose under the comof, or put away any such forged, counterfeit, or altered Note, mon seal of the Bill, Dividend Warrant, Bond, or Obligation, or the Indorse- ingly uttering the

(1) Of the Bank of England.

rant, bond, &c.

Bank, or know

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