certificate; or by employing others, shall assist in the forging or or assisting in counterfeiting of any such certificate; every such petty forging such officer, or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, being thereof convicted, shall be punished How punished, as in cases of perjury. The 32 Geo. 3. c. 67. Eng. is an act for extending the 31 Geo. 2. c. 10. Eng. 3 Geo. 3. c. 16. Eng. 26 Geo. 3. c. 63. Eng. 32 Geo. 3. c. 33. Eng. and 32 Geo. 3. c. 34. Eng. to petty officers, and seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines, and marines, serving, or who may have served on board any of his majesty's ships, and residing in Ireland. And this act (32 Geo. 3. c. 67.) contains several provisions for establishing a regular method for the punctual, frequent, and certain payment of the wages of petty officers and seamen, non-commissioned officers of marines, and marines, serving, or who may have served on board any of his majesty's ships of war, and for enabling them more readily and easily to remit the same to Ireland for the support of their wives and families, and for establishing a more regular and convenient method for the outpensioners of Greenwich hospital to receive their pen f of s. 12. Eng. Forging, &c. certificate di rected to revenue land for payment of wages, pension, c. a capital felony. sions. And by s. 12. provides, that if any person shall 32 Gen.3. c.67. falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be made, &c. or willingly act or assist in the false making, &c. any certificate by this act directed to be addressed to the revenue officers in Ireland, for the officers in Ire payment of any wages, pay, or other allowance money, or any pension or prize money, with intention to defraud any person whatsoever; or shall utter or publish as true any such certificate, with intention to defraud any person, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited; he shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And the 33 Geo, 3. c. 23. Ir. recites 33 Geo.3. c.25. the 32 Geo. 3. c. 67. Eng. supra, and 32 Geo. 3. c. 34. Eng. supra, and adopts several of their provisions, and Personating by s. 16. enacts, that if any person shall personate, or falsely assume the name or character of, or procure any cale, c. in orother person to personate, &c. any person to whom any wages, e such certificate (as hereby required,) shall have been granted, in order to receive the money mentioned in such certificate; or shall forge or counterfeit, or cause s. 16. Ir. seaman, &c. of farging certifi der to receive or or procure to be forged, &c. any bill, certificate, or other document, in order to receive any such money; or shall willingly and knowingly take any false oath in order to receive payment of any such money, for which any such bill, certificate, or other document, as herein mentioned, shall be drawn ; or if any person shall knowingly and willingly personate, or falsely assume the name or character of any inferior officer or seaman, non-commissioned officer of marines, or marine, or other person entitled to any wages, pay, or other allowance of money for service done on board of any ship or vessel of the king, or the name or character of the executors or administrators, wife, relation, or creditor of any such inferior officer, &c. or other person, in order to receive any wages, pay, or allowance of money due, or supposed to be due, and payable for or on account of the services of any such inferior officer, &c.; or shall forge or counterfeit, or procure to be forged, &c. any letter of attorney, bill, ticket, certificate, assignment, last will, or other power or authority, in order to receive any wages, &c. due or supposed to be due to such petty officer, &c.; or shall willingly or knowingly take a false oath, or procure any other person to take a false Or falsely obtaining probate, oath, to obtain the probate of any will, or to obtain letters of administration, in order to receive the payment of any wages, &c. due or supposed to be due to any such petty officer, &c. who has really served, or was supposed to have served on board of any ship or vessel of the king; every such offender shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. Or forging let ter of attorney, &c. to receive wages, c. A capital felony. Personating outpensioner of By the 3 Geo. 3. c. 16. Eng. (which empowers the Greenwich hos- commissioners or governors of Greenwich hospital to pital, a capital provide for such worn-out or decrepit seamen as shall 3 Gen. 3. c. 16. not be provided for within the hospital; and provides felony. $. 5. Eng. for such out-pensioners receiving their pensions in an easy and convenient manner) it is enacted (s. 5.) that whosoever, willingly and knowingly, shall personate or falsely assume the name or character of, or procure any other to personate, &c. any person entitled, or supposed to be entitled as an out-pensioner, to any out pension pension or allowance of money from the commissioners or governors of the said hospital, in order to receive the money due, or supposed to be due, on such out-pension, shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And the 46 Geo. 3. c. 69. U. K. (by which provision is 46 Geo.3. c.69. made for the payment of all pensions, allowances, and s. 8. U. K. relief granted or to be granted, to disabled, invalid, or Personating soldischarged soldiers,) enacts (s. 8.) that if any person pension, c. a shall willingly and knowingly personate, or falsely as- capital felony. sume the name or character of any other person entitled, or supposed to be entitled to any such pension, &c. in order to receive the same or any part thereof, such offender shall be guilty of felony without benefit of clergy. And by s. 9. if any person shall knowingly and willingly forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged, &c. or knowingly and wilfully act or assist in forging, &c. the name or hand writing of any person entitled to any such pension, &c. or of any person required, by any rules or regulations made by virtue of this act, to sign any certificate, voucher, or receipt, in relation to the payment of any such pension, &c. for and in order to the receiving or obtaining any money on any such pension, &c.; or shall utter any such, knowing the same to be forged, &c. with an intention to defraud any person, every such offender shall be guilty of felony, and may be transported for life, or for such term of years as the court shall adjudge. diers to receive s. 9. Forging name, c. to any receipt, &c. for such pension, &€ how punished. cate, &c. of the 39&40 Geo. 3. The 39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 89. Eng. (which by s. 25. Signing or giv empowers the commissioners of the navy, ordnance, or ing false certifivictualling, to dispose of any of the stores marked as in sale of naval, s. 1. ante p. 516. and authorizes the buyers to keep them &c. stores; without incurring any penalty on producing such cer- c.89. s.25.Eng. tificate of their having bought them as hereby directed) enacts (s. 26.) that if any person shall make, sign, or give any false certificate, bill of parcels, or other instrument, purporting the identity or the sale or disposal of any goods or stores as goods, &c. so purchased of the said commissioners; or shall utter or publish any such false certificate, &c. knowing the same to be false, such same; offender Or uttering the offender, upon conviction thereof in due form of law, shall forfeit £200. and be further corporally punished as by this act is directed with respect to persons having in their possession, or concealing his majesty's warlike, naval, or ordnance stores, contrary to the 9 & 10 W. 3. c. 41. Eng.; one moiety of which penalty shall be to How punished, the king, and the other (with full costs of suit) to the informer, to be recovered in such manner as the £200. treasurer, &c. of by which naval posed of, how punished. inflicted by the 9 & 10 W. 3. is recoverable. And the . 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. clause of the 1 Geo. 1. st. 2. c. 25. Eng. may be here c. 25. s. 6. Eng. also stated, which enacts, that every person who shall Forging hand of counterfeit the hands of the treasurer, comptroller, surveyor, clerk of the acts, or of the commissioners of the navy, or any of them, or the hand of any of the signing or vouching officers of his majesty's navy, ships, or yards, to any bill, ticket, or other papers, by virtue whereof his majesty's naval treasure is or may be paid or disposed of; or shall knowingly produce any such counterfeit ticket, &c.; every such offender shall and may be committed to prison by any of the said officers or commissioners, until he find surety to appear at the next general assizes or quarter sessions of the peace for the county, &c. where such offender shall be so committed to prison, to be there proceeded against according to law. Forging the name or writing of the receiver 46 Geo.3. c.75. &&. E. The 46 Geo. 3. c. 75. E. (which is an act for the better regulation of the office of receiver general of the general of excise duties of excise in England) enacts (s. 8.) that if any person shall knowingly and wilfully forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged, &c. or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in forging, &c. the name or handwriting of the receiver general of the excise, or of the comptroller of the cash of the excise, or any person duly authorized as herein mentioned, to any draft, instrument, or writing, 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, on account of the receiver general of the excise; or shall forge, &c. or cause to be forged, &c. or knowingly and wilfully act and assist in the forging, &c. any Or any draft, instrument, or writing in form of a draft or any draft, made by such receiver general, or person authorized as c. of his; aforesaid; or shall utter or publish any such, knowing the same to be forged, &c. with an intention to defraud So of customs. s. 9. U. K. So as to the any person; every such offender shall be guilty of fe- A capital felony, lony without benefit of clergy. And the 46 Geo. 3.46G-0.5.c.150, c. 150. E. contains a similar clause with respect to the 10. E receiver general of the customs, or supervisor of the so as to the receiver general's receipts or payments, or other person receiver general authorized to draw on the bank of England as herein mentioned. And a similar clause is also contained in the 46 Geo. 3. c. 45. U. K. with respect to the treasurer 46 Geo 3 c. 45. of the ordnance, or his deputy, or other person authorized to draw on the bank of England as herein men- treasurer of the tioned. The 46 Geo. 3. c. 76. E. contains also the like deputy. clause with relation to the receiver general of stamp duties, or his clerk, or either of the commissioners of stamps. And the surveyor general of the woods and ceiver general of forests, or his deputy, are in like manner protected &c. against the crime of forgery in respect to their drafts, writings, or instruments for obtaining money out of the so as to the surbank of England, by the 46 Geo. 3. c. 142. E. ordnance or his 46 Geo. 3.c.76 s. 9. E. So as to the re stamp duties, 46Geo.3.c.142. s. 14. E. veyor general of woods, c. The 43 Geo. 3. c. 68. G. B. (which is the consolidating customs act) enacts (s. 35.) that if any person shall Forging mark or seal required by forge or counterfeit any mark or seal to resemble any this customs act, mark or seal which shall be provided or used in pursu- 43 Geo.3. c.6. how punished. ance of this act, or shall forge, &c. the impression of s. 35. G. E. any such mark or seal upon any goods by this act required to be marked or sealed, or shall sell or expose to sale, or have in his custody or possession, any such foreigu silk lace (as herein mentioned) with a counterfeit mark or seal thereon, knowing the same to be counter, feited, such offender, his aiders, abettors, and assistants, shall forfeit £100.; one moiety to the king, and the other to such officer of the customs as shall sue and prosecute the same; and sucli offender shall also be adjudged to stand in the pillory, in some public place, for 2 hours. But it is made a capital felony by several previous statutes to commit the crime of forgery in respect to the stamp or seal, &c. of the commissioners of excise felony. or Statutes making similar offence |