rant or other instrument to sell, assign, transfer, or dispose of any such bank annuities, &c. or to receive any dividends, &c. thereon, or to any letter of attorney, draft, warrant, instrument or writing, for or in order to the receiving any money which is or shall be in the custody of the bank of England, or of any other person, under any of the provisions of this act, or shall produce, utter or publish any such letter of attorney, &c. knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, with intent to defraud the king, or the said governor and company, or any other person, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. P. 1077. l. 7. The 57 Geo. 3. c. 31. U. K. contains Forging, &c. lottery tickets, clauses corresponding to those of the 48 Geo. 3. c. 139. &c. s. 11. 12. 13. 33 & 39. save that in the 57 Geo. 3. c. 31. 57 Geo.3. c31. s. 11 & 12. the word "letter" is added after the words U. K. "number, figure or word." impressions the commission – 52 Geo.3.c 145. P. 1080. 1.39. The 52 Geo.3. c.143. G.B. (ante p.423.) Forging, &c. any marks, enacts (s. 7.) that if any person shall forge or counstamps, dies or terfeit (or cause, &c.) any mark, stamp, die or plate, which, plates, &c. or in pursuance of any act of parliament, shall have been thereof, or ulprovided, made or used, by or under the direction of the tering, &c. vellum, &c. with commissioners appointed to manage the duties on stamped such forged impressions, or privellum, parchment, and paper, or by or under the direc-vately using the tion of any other person legally anthorized in that behalf, marks, &c. of for expressing or denoting any duty, or any part thereof, ers, a capital which shall be under the care and management of the said felony. commissioners, or for denoting or testifying the payments. 7. G. B. of any such duty, or any part thereof, or for denoting any device appointed by the said commissioners for the ace of spades, to be used with any playing cards; or shall forge or counterfeit (or cause, &c.) the impression, or any resemblance of the impression of any such mark, &c. upon any vellum, parchment, paper, card, ivory, gold or silver plate, or other material; or shall stamp or mark (or cause, &c.) any vellum, &c. or other material, with any such forged or counterfeited mark, &c. with intent to defraud the king of any of the duties, or any part of the duties, under the care, &c. of said commissioners; or if any person shall utter or sell, or expose to sale, any vellum, &c. 54 Geo.3.c.133. s. 10. G. B. surance, how punished. or other material, having thereupon the impression of any such forged or counterfeited mark, &c. or any such forged or counterfeited impression as aforesaid, knowing the same, respectively, to be forged, &c.; or if any person shall privately or secretly use any such mark, &c. which shall have been so provided, made or used, by or under such direction as aforesaid, with intent to defraud the king of any of the duties, or any part of the duties, under the care, &c. of the said commissioners, every such offender shall be adjudged guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And the 54 Geo. 3. c. 133. G. B. which is an act for the better enabling the commissioners of stamps to Forging name, make allowances for spoiled stamps on policies of insurance &c. of underwriter, to obtain in Great Britain, and for preventing frauds relating thereallowances for spoiled stamps to, enacts, (s. 10.) that if any person shall forge or counon policies of in- terfeit, (or cause, &c.) or willingly aid or assist in the forging, &c. of the name or hand writing of any underwriter on any policy of insurance, to any declaration of any return of the premium on such policy or any part thereof; or shall fraudulently alter, or cause or procure to be altered, or aid or assist in altering any such declaration, after the same shall have been signed by any underwriter, or shall utter or make use of any such declaration, knowing the same to have been fraudulently altered, or the name or hand writing of any underwriter to have been forged thereon for the purpose of obtaining any such allowance as aforesaid, and with intent to defraud the king, every such offender shall, for the first offence, forfeit £500. to the king, to be recovered in the same manner as other penalties imposed by any of the laws now in force relating to stamp duties, and for the second and every other offence shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and be transported for And the 55 Geo. 3. c. 184. G. B. which is " years. Forging, &c. stamps or dies, act for repealing the stamp duties on deeds, law proceedor part thereof, or the impres- ings, and other written or printed instruments, and the sion, or part of duties on fire insurances, and on legacies and successions the impression, &c. the same, or 7 an &c. or ultering, to personal estate upon intestacies, now payable in Great privately using Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof," enany stamp, &c. acts (s. 7.) that if any person shall forge, or counterfeit, with intent to defraud the king (or cause, &c.) any stamp or die, or any part of any stamp, &c. by granted, a s. 7. G.B. &c. which shall have been provided, made or used in pur of the duties heresuance of this or any former act relating to stamp duties, capital felony. or shall forge, counterfeit or resemble, (or cause, &c.) the 55 Geo.3. c. 184. impression or any part of the impression of any such stamp, &c. upon any vellum, parchment or paper, or shall stamp or mark, (or cause, &c.) any vellum, &c. with any such forged stamp, &c. or part of any stamp, &c. with intent to defraud the king of any of the duties hereby granted, or any part thereof; or if any person shall utter or sell, or expose to sale, any vellum, &c. having thereupon the impression of any such forged stamp, &c. or part of any stamp, &c. or any such forged or resembled impression or part of impression as aforesaid, knowing the same respectively to be forged, &c. ; or if any person shall privately and secretly use any stamp, &c. which shall have been so provided, &c. with intent to defraud the king of any of said duties, or any part thereof; or if any person shall fraudulently Fraudulently cut, tear, or get off, or cause to be cut, &c. the impression cutting, &c. the impression of any stamp, &c. which shall have been provided, &c. in of any stamp, pursuance of this or any former act, for expressing or de- &c. used in purnoting any duty under the care and management of the or any former commissioners of stamps, or any part of such duty, from to use the same any vellum, &c. with intent to use the same for or upon &c. a capital fèany other vellum, &c. or any instrument or writing charg- lony. ed or chargeable with any of the duties hereby granted; every such offender, and every person knowingly and wilfully aiding, &c. any person in committing any such of fence, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. du suance of this act, with intent on other vellum, or die, or part almanacks, &c. And the 55 Geo. 3. c. 185. G. B. which repeals the stamp 55 Geo.3. c.185. duties on advertisements, almanacks, newspapers, gold and s. 6. G. B. Forging, &c. silver plate, stage coaches, and licenses for keeping stage any plate, stamp coaches, payable in Great Britain, and grants new thereof, for deties in lieu thereof, enacts, (s. 6.) that if any person shall noting duties on forge or counterfeit, (or cause, &c.) any plate, stamp or under this or die, or any part of any plate, &c. which shall have been former acts, or the impression, provided, made, or used in pursuance of this or any for- &c. or uttering, mer act, for expressing and denoting any of the duties with the impres granted by this or any former act, on almanacks, newspa- sion pers, and licenses to keep stage coaches, or any part thereof; or if any person shall utter or sell, or expose to sale VOL. II. 31. any &c. any paper of such &c. or privately using any plate, &c. a capital fe lony. Persons forging, &c. type, die, stamp duties ing any vellum, any paper having thereupon the impression of any such forged or counterfeited plate, &c. or any such forged, &c. impression or part of impression as aforesaid, knowing the same respectively to be forged, &c. or if any person shall privately and secretly use any plate, &c. which shall have been so provided, &c. with intent to defraud the king, every such offender, and every person knowingly aiding, &c. in committing any such offence, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. P. 1080. l. 39. The 56 Geo. 3. c. 56. I. which repeals mark or stamp, the several stamp duties in Ireland, and the several acts for denoting any for their collection, &c. enacts, (s. 37.) that if any person whether in force in any part of the united kingdom of Great Britain and or not, or being Ireland, or of any of the dominions thereto belonging, possessed thereof or impress- shall counterfeit or forge, (or cause, &c.) any type, die, &c. therewith, mark or stamp, to resemble or represent, or be mistaken or being possess for any type, &c. heretofore kept or used, or hereafter to ed of any vellum, &c. with be kept, &c. at the stamp office in Dublin, for denoting such counterfeit device, &c. the charging or marking on vellum, parchment or paper, thereon, or any or other matter directed to be stamped, any of the stamp officer fraudulently impress- duties payable under any act which has been or shall be ing stamps, &c. or having in his in force in Ireland, although such act may not be in force, possession vel- orsuch type, &c. may not be kept or used at said office at the dulently stamp- time of such forging, &c.; or if any person (save such as ed, transported shall be lawfully entitled and authorized to have and use for life. 56 Geo.3. c. 56. the same for the purpose of stamping vellum, &c.) shall lum, &c. frau 3. 37. I, have in his possession any type, &c. made to resemble, &c. any type, &c, heretofore kept, &c. or hereafter to be kept, &c. at said stamp office, for denoting the charging or marking on vellum, &c. any of the said stamp duties, although 1 such type, &c. shall not be then kept, &c. at said stamp office, or the duty denoted thereby shall not be then payable in Ireland; or if any person shall mark or impress (or cause, &c.) on any vellum, &c. any device, &c. to resemble, &c. any device, &c. which has been or shall be used, kept or made, marked or impressed, at the stamp office in Dublin, for denoting the charging or marking on vellum, &c. any of the said stamp duties so payable under any act of parliament which shall be or shall have been in force in Ireland Ireland at or before the time when such mark, &c. shall have been so used, &c. at said office, although such act may not be in force, or such device, &c. may not be used, &c. at said office, at the time of such offence committed; or if any person shall use, utter, vend or sell, (or cause, &c.) or shall have in his possession with intent to use, &c. any vellum, &c. with any counterfeit device, &c. to resemble, &c. any device, &c. which has been or shall be used at said stamp office, for the purposes aforesaid, or any of them, although not then used or kept for said purposes, or any of them, or although the duty denoted thereby shall not be then payable in Ireland, knowing such device, &c. to be counterfeited; or if any officer, in the emyloyment of the commissioners of stamps, or any other person, shall with intent to defraud the king, mark or impress, (or cause, &c.) or be aiding, &c. in marking, &c. or causing, &c. to be marked, &c. any stamp, mark or impression denoting any of the said stamp duties on any vellum, &c. not delivered to him by or by authority of said commis. sioners for the purpose of being stamped with any type, &c. although such type, &c. shall not be then kept at said stamp office, or the duty denoted thereby shall not be then payable in Ireland; or if any person shall, with intent to defraud the king, knowingly have in his possession any vellum, &c. so fraudulently stamped or marked with any mark or stamp to denote any of the aforesaid duties, every such offender shall be adjudged a felon, and be transported for life. And by s. 38. whenever any vellum, &c. shall be found in the possession of any person licensed Licensed dealto deal in and retail stamps in Ireland, or who shall have been so licensed within 6 calendar months then next pre- feit stamps in their possession, ceding, having impressed thereon any counterfeit device, deemed to have &c. to resemble or represent, or intended or liable to be had them with a felonious intent, mistaken for any device, &c. which has been or shall be unless the conused, &c. at said stamp office for the purposes aforesaid, factorily proved. or any of them, although such device, &c. shall not then be used or kept for said purposes, or any of them, or although the duty denoted thereby shall not be then payable in Ireland, such person shall be deemed to have so had the same with intent to use, utter, or vend the same unless s. 38. ers in stamps having counter trary be satis |