tr 66 resemblance of such marks, stamps, &c. upon vellum, paper, card, ivory, gold or silver plate, ing, &c. with forged marks, &c. or secretly &c.; or utter "cards; or shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be cards; or forg"forged or counterfeited, the impression, or any resemblance of ing, &c. the "the impression, of any such mark, stamp, die or plate as afore"said, upon any vellum, parchment, paper, card, ivory, gold or "silver plate, or other material, or shall stamp or mark, or cause " or procure to be stamped or marked, any vellum, parchment, paper, card, ivory, gold or silver plate, or other material, with any such forged or counterfeited mark, stamp, die or plate as "aforesaid, with intent to defraud his Majesty, his heirs, &c. of any of the duties, or any part of the duties under the care and management of the said commissioners; or if any person shall made felony "utter or sell, or expose to sale any vellum, parchment, paper, card, ivory, gold or silver plate, or other material, having there- gy. upon the impression of any such forged or counterfeited mark, "stamp, die or plate, or any such forged or counterfeited impression as aforesaid, knowing the same respectively to be "forged or counterfeited; or if any person shall privately or se 66 cretly use any such mark, stamp, die or plate, which shall have "been so provided, made or used, by or under such direction as "aforesaid, with intent to defraud his Majesty, his heirs, &c. "of any of the duties, or any part of the duties under the care "and management of the said commissioners; every person so offending, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, without benefit " of clergy.' using them; without cler base metal, other, or to with forged The eighth section of this statute enacts, "That if any person 52 Geo. 3. c. "shall transpose or remove, or cause or procure to be transposed 143. s. 8. "or removed, from one piece of wrought plate of gold or silver to from one piece Transposing "another, or to any vessel or ware of base metal, any impression of wrought "made with any mark, stamp or die, provided, made or used by plate to an"or under the direction of the said commissioners of stamps, or by or under the direction of any other person or persons legally "authorised in that behalf, for denoting any duty or duties, or "the payment of any duty or duties, granted to his Majesty on "gold or silver plate; or shall stamp or mark, or cause or pro"cure to be stamped or marked, any vessel or ware of base metal "with any mark, stamp or die, which shall have been forged or "counterfeited in imitation of, or to resemble any mark, stamp wrought plate ❝or die so provided, made or used as aforesaid; or shall sell, ex- or base metal, "change or expose to sale, or export out of Great Britain, any mark, stamp, "wrought plate of gold or silver, or any vessel or ware of base &c.; or trans"metal, having thereupon the impression of any forged or coun- posed mark, "terfeited mark, stamp or die, for denoting any such duty or knowing, &c.; "duties, or the payment of any such duty or duties, or any or wilfully hav "forged or counterfeited impression of any mark, stamp or die, ing possession "so provided, made or used as aforesaid, or any impression of mark, stamp, 66 any such mark, stamp or die, which shall have been transposed &c.; made fe" or removed from any other piece of plate as aforesaid, knowing lony without "the same respectively to be forged or counterfeited, or trans"posed or removed as aforesaid; or shall wilfully and without "lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person ac"cused) have or be possessed of any such forged or counterfeited "mark, stamp or die, for denoting any such duty or duties, or the stamp, &c.; of any forged clergy. 52 Geo. 3. c. 143. s. 9. Making or having in pos session any paper, &c. or making paper, &c. with the words, "Excise Office," visible in the payment thereof;" every person so offending shall be adjudged guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy. (a) By the ninth section it is enacted, "that if any person (not "being lawfully appointed or authorised so to do) shall make, or "cause, or procure to be made, or shall knowingly aid or assist "in the making, or, without being so appointed or authorised as frame, &c. for "aforesaid, shall knowingly have in his, her or their custody or possession, without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on "the person accused,) any frame, mould, or instrument, for the "making of paper, with the words 'Excise Office' visible in the "substance of such paper, or shall make or cause, or procure to "be made, or knowingly aid or assist in the making any paper, in "the substance of which the words Excise Office 6 shall be "visible; or if any person (except as before excepted) shall by any art, mystery or contrivance, cause or procure the said words "Excise Office' to appear visible in the substance of any paper "whatever; or if any person (not being so appointed or authoby the commis- "rised as aforesaid) shall engrave, cast, cut, or make, or shall sioners of Ex-❝ cause or procure to be engraven, cast, cut, or made, any mark, "stamp, or device, in imitation of or to resemble any mark, stamp, "or device, made or used by the direction of the commissioners felony without of excise in England or Scotland, or the major part of them re"spectively, for the purpose of printing, stamping, or marking of substance; or engraving, making, &c. any marks, stamp, &c. in imitation of the mark, stamp,&c. used cise for paper used for permits, made clergy. 55 Geo. 3. c. 184. s. 7. in cludes the cutting or getting off the impres sion of any stamp from paper, &c. with intent to use the same upon any other pa-per,&c.chargeable with the duties, and makes such 66 any paper to be used as or for a permit or permits to accompany any exciseable commodity or commodities removing or removed "from one part of Great Britain to any other part thereof, in pur"suance of the directions of any of the several statutes requiring "such permit," every person so offending shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. 66 The late stamp act 55 Geo. 3. c. 184. s. 7. includes the cutting or getting off the impression of any stamp from paper, &c. with intent to use the same upon any other &c. paper, chargeable with the duties thereby granted; and makes this also a capital offence. This section (without referring to the former general act of the 52 Geo. 3. c. 143.) enacts" that if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any stamp or die, or any part of any stamp or die, which shall have "been provided, made or used, in pursuance of this act, or in pursuance of any former act or acts, relating to any stamp duty or duties, or shall forge, counterfeit or resemble, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited or resembled the impression or any part of the impression of any such stamp or die as aforefelony without "said, upon any vellum, parchment or paper, or shall stamp or “ mark, or cause or procure to be stamped or marked, any vellum, "parchment or paper, with any such forged or counterfeited stamp or die, or part of any stamp or die as aforesaid, with intent to "defraud his majesty, his heirs, &c. of any of the duties hereby granted, or any part thereof; or if any person shall utter or "or expose to sale any vellum, parchment, or paper, having there cutting, getting off, &c. clergy. 66 sell (a) See 5 Geo. 4. c. 52. (local and personal) s. 22. as to plate wrought or made within the town of Birmingham, and within thirty miles thereof, << upon the impression of any such forged or counterfeited stamp 66 or die, or part of any stamp or die, or any such forged, counter"feited or resembled impression, or part of impression as afore"said, knowing the same respectively to be forged, counterfeited "or resembled; or if any person shall privately and secretly use "any stamp or die which shall have been so provided, made or used as aforesaid, with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs, "&c. of any of the said duties, or any part thereof; or if any per"son shall fraudulently cut, tear, or get off, or cause or procure to be cut, torn or got off, the impression of any stamp or die which shall have been provided, made or used in pursuance of "this or any former act, for expressing or denoting any duty or "duties under the care and management of the commissioners of "stamps, or any part of such duty or duties, from any vellum, "parchment, or paper, whatsoever, with intent to use the same "for or upon any other vellum, parchment, or paper, or any in"strument or writing, charged or chargeable with any of the "duties hereby granted; then and in every such case every per"son so offending, and every person knowingly and wilfully aid"ing, abetting, or assisting any person or persons in committing any such offence as aforesaid," shall be adjudged "guilty of fe 66 extended. lony without benefit of clergy." The eighth section enacts that S. 8. Powers all the powers, &c. pains and penalties contained in and imposed of former acts by the several acts relating to the duties by this act repealed, and the several acts relating to any prior duties of the same kind or description, shall be of full force and effect with respect to the duties by this act granted, as far as the same shall be applicable, &c. nacks, news The statute 55 Geo. 3. c. 185. entitled "an act for repealing the 55 Geo. 3. c. stamp office duties on advertisements, almanacks, newspapers, new duties on 185. grants 66 gold and silver plate, stage-coaches, and licences for keeping advertise"stage-coaches, now payable in Great Britain; and for grant- ments, alma"ing new duties in lieu thereof," declares that the duties thereby papers, plate, granted shall be under the care and management of the commis- coaches, &c. sioners of stamps in Great Britain, and requires the commissioners to provide and use proper and sufficient plates, stamps, or dies, for denoting the duties thereby granted: (b) and enacts that the powers, &c. pains and penalties contained in and imposed by the acts relating to the duties by this act repealed, and to any prior duties of the same kind or description, shall be of full force and effect, with respect to the duties by this act granted as far as the same shall be applicable, &c. (c) The sixth S. 6. enacts section then enacts, "that if any person shall forge or counterfeit, forging, &c. "or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any plate, any plate, stamp, or die, or any part of any plate, stamp, or die, which stamp, or die, "shall have been provided, made or used, in pursuance of this the duties on "or any former act, for expressing and denoting any of the almanacks, &c. "duties granted by this or any former act, on almanacks, news- or forging the impression papers, and licences to keep stage-coaches; or shall forge, thereof, or "counterfeit, or resemble, or cause or procure to be forged, coun- stamping any "terfeited, or resembled, the impression, or any part of the im- paper with that persons used to denote such forged plate, stamp, or die, or uttering such "pression of any such plate, stamp, or die, upon any paper what"soever, or shall stamp or mark, or cause or procure to be stamped "or marked any paper whatsoever, with any such forged or coun"terfeited plate, stamp, or die, as aforesaid, with intent to defraud ing, &c. or se- " his majesty, his heirs, &c. of any of the duties hereby granted cretly using "on almanacks, newspapers, and licences to keep stage-coaches, any plate, stamp, or die, paper, know clergy. or any part thereof; or if any person shall utter, or sell, or exand their aid66 pose to sale any paper, having thereupon the impression of any ers, &c. shall be guilty of "such forged or counterfeited plate, stamp, or die, or part of any felony without "plate, stamp, or die, or any such forged, counterfeited, or re"sembled impression, or part of impression as aforesaid, knowing "the same respectively to be forged, counterfeited, or resembled; "or if any person shall privately and secretly use any plate, stamp, "or die, which shall have been so provided, made or used as aforesaid, with intent to defraud his majesty, his heirs, &c. then every 66 person so offending, and every person knowingly and wilfully "aiding, abetting, or assisting any person or persons in committing any such offence as aforesaid," shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. 55 Geo. 3. c. 185. s. 7. Any person forging, &c. any mark, stamp, 66 impression of of plate to an- base metal any impression of 66 The seventh section further enacts, "that if any person shall "forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or coun"terfeited any mark, stamp, or die, which shall have been pro❝vided, made, or used in pursuance of this or any former act, or die used for "relating to any duties on gold or silver plate made or wrought in plate, or forg-Great Britain, for the purpose of marking or stamping any such ing, &c. the gold or silver plate, in the manner directed by any such act, or "shall forge, counterfeit, or resemble, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or resembled, the impression of any such "mark, stamp, or die, upon any such gold or silver plate, with "intent to defraud his Majesty, his heirs, &c. or if any person "shall mark or stamp, or cause or procure to be marked or "stamped, any such gold or silver plate, or any vessel or ware of base metal, with any such forged or counterfeited mark, stamp, or die as aforesaid, or shall transpose or remove, or cause or procure to be transposed or removed, from one piece of gold or "silver plate to another, or to any vessel or ware of base metal, a mark, stamp, « any impression made with any mark, stamp, or die, which shall or die, or selling or export"have been provided, made, or used in pursuance of this or any ing plate or "former act, for the purpose of marking marking or stamping of any such base metal, "gold or silver plate as aforesaid; or if any person shall sell, exwith forged or transposed "change, or expose to sale, or export out of Great Britain, any mark, &c. or "such gold or silver plate, or any vessel or ware of base metal, "having thereupon the impression of any such forged or counter"feited mark, stamp, or die as aforesaid, or any forged, counter"feited or resembled impression of any mark, stamp, or die, so provided, made, or used as aforesaid, or any impression of any such mark, stamp, or die, which shall have been transposed or " removed from any other piece of plate as aforesaid, knowing the same respectively to be forged or counterfeited, or transposed or removed as aforesaid; or if any person shall wilfully, and "without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on the person "accused) have or be possessed of any such forged or counter"feited mark, stamp, or die as aforesaid, or shall privately and having posses sion of forged mark, &c. or secretly using any mark, &c. to be guilty of felony without clergy. 66 "secretly use any mark, stamp, or die, so provided made or used "as aforesaid, with intent to defraud his Majesty, &c." every person so offending, and every person knowingly and wilfully aiding, abetting, or assisting any person or persons committing any such offence as aforesaid, shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy.(b) cr 66 The late Irish stamp act, 56 Geo. 3. c. 56. s. 37. enacts, "that if 66 any person in any part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain " and Ireland, or of any of the dominions thereto belonging, shall "counterfeit or forge, or cause or procure to be counterfeited or "forged, any type, die, mark, or stamp, to resemble or represent, "or be mistaken for any type, die, mark, or stamp at any time " heretofore kept or used, or hereafter to be kept or used at the "stamp office in Dublin, for denoting the charging or marking on "vellum, parchment, or paper, or other matter directed to be "stamped, any of the stamp duties payable under or by virtue of any act or acts which has been or shall be at any time in force "in Ireland, although such act or acts may not be in force, or "such type, die, nark, or stamp may not be kept or used at the "said stamp office at the time of such forging or counterfeiting; if or any person or persons (save and except such person or persons as shall be lawfully entitled and authorised to have and "to use the same for the purpose of stamping vellum, parchment, or paper, or other matter directed to be stamped by or under "the authority of the said commissioners of stamps for the time “being,) shall have in his, her, or their possession, any type, die, or mark or stamp made to resemble or represent, or be mistaken "for any type, die, mark, or stamp, heretofore kept or used, or "hereafter to be kept or used at the said stamp office, for denoting "the charging or marking on vellum, parchment, or paper, or other "matter directed to be stamped, any of the said stamp duties so payable as aforesaid, although such type, die, mark, or stamp, "shall not be then kept or used at the said stamp office, or the duty "denoted thereby shall not be then payable in Ireland; or if any person or persons shall mark or impress, or cause or procure to "be marked or impressed on any vellum, parchment, or paper, or "other matter which heretofore was or hereafter shall be directed "to be stamped, any device, mark or impression to resemble or "represent, or be mistaken for any device, mark or impression "which has been or shall be used, kept or made, marked or im 66 66 66 66 pressed at the stamp-office in Dublin, for denoting the charg❝ing or marking on vellum, parchment or paper, or other matter "or thing so directed to be stamped, any of the said stamp duties 66 so payable under or by virtue of any act of parliament which "shall be or shall have been in force in Ireland at or before the "time when such mark, device or impression shall have been so used, kept or made, marked or impressed, at the said office, al"though such act or acts may not be in force, or such device, "mark or impression, may not be used or kept, marked or im66 pressed at the said office, at the time of such offence com (d) See 5 Geo. 4. c. 52. (local and personal) s. 22. as to plate wrought or made within the town of Birmingham, 56 Geo. 3. c. 56. s. 37. (Irish act.) Forging any tyre, die, &c. of the stamp in, or having possession of counterfeit types, dies, &c. or marking any paper, &c. with any counterfeit device, mark, &c. or using, uttering, or having in possession with intent to use any paper, &c. with counterfeit device, mark, &c. and also the fraudulent using of marks, &c. by any officer of the comm stamps, or the having possespaper, &c. fraudulently stamped, made felony, puntransportation for life. office in Dub any stamps, the commis sion of any ishable by |
