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Rh grain, flour, pork, beef, wool or other goods, wares or merchandize, which shall not have been so received or delivered into such mill, warehouse, store or other building, previous to the making and uttering of such receipt or other written evidence thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than two years nor less than one year.

Sec. 32. Every person who shall falsely personate or represent another, and in such assumed character shall receive any money or other property whatever, intended to be delivered to the party so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, shall be deemed by so doing to have committed the crime of larceny.

Sec. 33. If any person shall designedly, by any false pretense or by any privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, obtain from any other person any money or goods, wares, merchandize, or other property, or shall obtain with such intent the signature of any person to any written instrument, the false making whereof would be punishable as forgery, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars.

Sec. 34. Every person who shall be convicted of any gross fraud or cheat at common law, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than four years nor less than one year, or by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars nor less than fifty dollars.

Sec. 35. If any person shall willfully cast away, burn, sink, or otherwise destroy any ship, steamboat or vessel, within the body of any county, with intent to injure or defraud any owner of such vessel, steamboat, or ship or the owner of any property laden on board the same, or any insurer of such vessel or property, or of any part thereof, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than ten years nor less than three years.

Sec. 86. If any person shall lade, equip, or fit out, or assist in lading, equipping, and fitting out any steamboat, ship or vessel, with the intent that the same shall be cast away, burnt, sunk, or otherwise destroyed, to injure or defraud any owner or insurer of such vessel, or of any property laden on board