37 G. 3, c. 54. any such forged, counterfeited, or altered dividend warrant or warrants, for payment of any annuity, interest, or money payable as aforesaid, or the endorsement 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 Ireland, or any of their officers or servants, knowing such dividend warrant, or warrant for payment of any annuity, inte rest, or money payable as aforesaid, or the endorsement thereon, to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud the said governor and company of the bank of Ireland, 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.

Making trans-
fers of stock
in name of
proprietor, to
defraud
others; felo-
ny.

Making false transfers, felony.

Making false entries in the books; felony.

transfer

14. That if any person or persons shall wilfully make or assist in making any transfer of any interest, part, or share of or in any principal sums or stock, annuity or annuities, by this act made or declared transferable at the bank of Ireland, in any of the books of the said governor and company of the bank of Ireland, 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, transferable as aforesaid, with intent to defraud the said governor and company of the bank of Ireland, 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.

15. That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, 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 transferable at the bank of Ireland; 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 Ireland, 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.

16. That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall wilfully make or assist in making any false entry, or shall wilfully alter or assist 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 Ireland, wherein the several accounts of the owners or proprietors of principal sums, or stock, or annuities, by this act made or de

Bank clerk

making out

clared transferable at the bank of Ireland, are, or, in pursuance 37 G. 3, c. 54. 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 Ireland, 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. 17. And to prevent dividend warrants being made out for different sums than the sums really due, by which forgeries and frauds in transfers and dividend warrants may be committed: be it enacted, that if any clerk, officer or servant of, or other person or persons employed, or intrusted by the said governor and company, shall 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 Ireland, for a greater or less amount than the person or persons on whose behalf or pretended behalf such dividend warrant, or warrant 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 or the bank of Ireland, 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.

for

false dividend warrant.

48 Geo. 3, c. 1, s. 9.-That if any person or persons shall forge or counterfeit any exchequer bill, or any indorsement or writing thereupon or therein; or tender in payment any such forged or counterfeited bill; or any exchequer bill with such counterfeit indorsement or writing thereon, or shall demand to have such counterfeit bill, or any exchequer bill with such counterfeit indorsement or writing thereupon or therein, exchanged for ready money or for another exchequer bill, by any person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate, who shall be obliged or required to exchange the same, or by any other person or persons whatsoever, knowing the bill so tendered in payment, or demanded to be exchanged, or the indorsement or writing thereupon or therein, to be forged or counterfeited, and with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs and successors, or the persons to be appointed to pay off the same, or any of them, or to pay any interest thereupon, or the person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate, who shall contract or circulate or exchange the same, or any of them, or any other person or persons, body or bodies politic or corporate; then every such person or persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged a felon, and shall suffer as in cases of felony without

benefit of clergy.

Forging &c., exchequer bills; felony.

48 G. 3, c. 142.

ney.

48 Geo. 3, c. 142,(a) s. 27.—That if any person or persous shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, Forging cer- counterfeited, or altered, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in tain birth re- the forging, counterfeiting, or altering any register or registers of gister certificates,and war- the birth or baptism of any person or persons, to be appointed a rants of attor- nominee (b) or nominees, under the provisions of this act, or any copy or certificate of any such register, or the name or names of any witness or witnesses to any such certificate, or any affidavit or affirmation required to be taken for any of the purposes of this act, or the certificate of any judge, baron of the exchequer, justice of the peace, or magistrate, of any such affidavit or affirmation having been taken before him, or any certificate of any go. vernor or person acting as such, or minister or consul, or chief magistrate of any province, town, or place, or other person authorized by this act to grant any certificate of the life or death of any nominee, or any certificate or certificates of the officer to be appointed by the said commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, or of any cashier or clerk of the bank of England; or shall forge or counterfeit, or shall cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting the name or names of any person or persons, in or to any transfer of bank an nuities for the purchase of any life annuity, or in or to any transfer or acceptance of any life annuity in the books of the governor and company of the bank of England, or any receipt or discharge for any life annuity, or for any payment or payments due, or to become due thereon, or to any letter of attorney, or other authority or instrument, to transfer or accept any bank annuities or life annnitie. under the provisions of this act, or to receive any life annuities, or any payment or payments due or to become due thereon; or shall wilfully, falsely, and deceitfully personate any true and real nominee or nominees, or shall wilfully deliver or produce to any person or persons acting under the authority of this act, or shall utter any such forged register, certificate, affidavit, or aflirmation, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs and successors, or any other person or persons whomsoever; then and in every such case, all and every person or persons so offending, and being lawfully convicted thereof, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy.(c)

Forging cer tain certifi.

5 Geo. 4, c. 53, (d) s. 22.-That if any person or persons

(a) Entitled, " An Act for enabling the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt to grant life annuities."

(b) Viz, the persun named as the cestui que vie, by the purchaser of a government life annuity.

(c) See the act 2, 3 Will. 4, c. 123, s. 2, p. 79.

(d) Entitled, An Act to permit the mutual transfer of capital in certain public stocks or funds transferable at the Banks of England and Ireland respectively."

fer of stock;

shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or 5 G. 4, c. 53. counterfeited, or shall willingly act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting any certificate or duplicate certificate required by cates of transthis act; or shal: alter any number, figure, or word therein; or felony. shall alter and publish as true, any such false, forged, counterfeited, or altered certificate, with intent to defraud the governor and company of the bank of England, or the governor and company of the bank of Ireland, or any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons whomsoever; every such person or persons so forging or counterfeiting, or causing or procuring to be forged or counterfeited, or willingly acting or assisting in the forging or counterfeiting, or altering, uttering, or publishing as aforesaid, being thereof convicted in due form of law, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy.

10 Geo. 4, c. 50, (a) s. 124. That if any person or persons shall knowingly and wilfully forge or counterfeit, or knowingly and wilfully act or assist in forging or counterfeiting the name or handwriting of the lord high treasurer, or of the commissioners of his majesty's treasury for the time being, or of any or either of them, to any power of attorney for the sale or transfer of any stock, or the name or hand-writing of the said commissioners for the time being of his majesty's woods, forests, and land revenues, or of any or either of them, to any draft, instrument, or writing whatsoever, for or in order to the receiving or obtaining any of the money in the hands or custody of the governor and company of the bank of England, or of the bank of Ireland, or of any private banker, on account of the said commissioners; or shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to oe forged or counterfeited, or knowingly and wilfully act or assist in the forging or counterfeiting any draft, instrument, or writing in form of a draft, made by the said commissioners, or any or either of them, or shall utter or publish any such, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with an intent to defraud the said governor and company of the bank of England or of the bank of Ireland, or any private banker, or any body corporate, or any person or persons whomsoever; every person or persons so offending, being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be, and is, and are hereby declared and adjudged to be guilty of felony.

Forging the lord high treasurer &c.,

name of the

to powers of attorney &c.,

to transfer tain money; felony.

stock or ob

1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, (b) s. 95. That if any person or persons Forging any

(a) Entitled, "An act to consolidate and amend the laws relating to the management and improvement of his majesty's woods, forests, parks, and chases; of the land revenue of the crown within

the

survey of the Exchequer in England; and of the land revenue of the crown in Ireland; and for extending certain provisions relating to the same to the Isles of Man and Ålderney.

(6) Entitled, " An act for the extension and promotion of public works in Ireland.”

order certifi

H

33.

1 & 2 W. 4, c. shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering any certificate or certificates of the commissioners for the execution of this act, or any of them, or any order, certificate, receipt or receipts, to be given ; or made by any officer of his majesty's exchequer or treasury, or felony. of the bank of Ireland, in pursuance of this act; or shall wilfully

cate &c., of the commissioners of

public works

Counterfeiting certifi

cates, orders, &c.; felony.

deliver any such forged, counterfeited, or altered order, certificate, or receipt to the auditor of the receipt of his majesty's exchequer in Ireland, or to any officer appointed by him, or to the teller thereof, or to the commissioners for the execution of this act, or any of them, or to any officer or officers appointed by them or any of them, in the execution of the powers of this act; or shall utter any such forged, counterfeited, or altered or der, certificate or certificates, receipt or receipts, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs or successors, or any body or bodies politic or corporate, or any person whomsoever; then and in every such case, all and every person or persons so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years nor less than two years.

3 Geo. 4, c. 113,(a) s. 23.-That if any person or persons shall forge, counterfeit or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited or altered, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in forging, counterfeiting or altering any certificate or certificates, or any order or orders for any payment to be made under this act, or any appointment or appointments to be made under this act, or any of them, or any receipt or receipts to be given by the cashier or cashiers of the bank of England or bank of Ireland, in pursuance of this act; or shall wilfully utter or deliver any such forged, counterfeited or altered certificate, order, appointment or receipt, to any person or persons in the execution of the powers of this act; or shall utter any such forged, coun terfeited or altered certificate, order, appointment or receipt, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited or altered, with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs or successors, or any body or bodies politic or corporate, or any person or persons whomsoever; then and in every such case, all and every person or persons so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as a felon without benefit of clergy.

(a) Entitled, "An act to amend an act, passed in the fiftieth year of his late majesty, [c. 117,] for directing that accounts of increase and diminution of public salaries, pensions, and allowances shall be annually laid before parliament; and for regulating and controlling the granting and paying such salaries, pensions, and allowances."