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62 other tool, instrument, or implement, or shall make or provide any paper or other materials adapted and designed for the forging or making any false and counterfeit note, certificate, or other bill of credit in the similitude of the notes, certificates, or bills of credit issued by lawful authority for any debt of this territory, or any false counterfeit note, or bill in the similitude of the notes or bills issued by any bank or banking company established in this territory, or within the United States, or any territory thereot', or within any other government or country, and every person who shall have in his possession any such plate or block engraved in any part, or any press or other tool, instrument or implement, paper or other material adapted and designed as aforesaid, with intent to use the same, or to cause or permit the same to be used in forging or making any such false and forged certificates, bills, or notes, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than one year.

Sec. 8. In all prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting any notes, or bills of the banks before mentioned, or for uttering, publishing, or tendering in payment as true, any forged, or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or for being possessed thereof with the intent to utter and pass them as true, the testimony of the president and cashier of such banks may be dispensed with, if their place of residence shall be out of this territory, or more than forty miles from the place of trial; and the testimony of any person acquainted with the signature of the president or cashier of such banks, or who has knowledge of the difference in the appearance of the true and counterfeit bills or notes thereof, may be admitted to prove that any such bills or notes arc counterfeit.

Sec. 9. In all prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting any note, certificate, bill of credit, or security issued on behalf of the United States, or on behalf of any state or territory, or for uttering, publishing, or tendering in payment as true, any such forged or counterfeit note, certificate, bill of credit, or security, or for being possessed thereof with intent to utter or pass the same as true, the certificate under oath of the secretary of the treasury, or of the treasurer of the United States, or of the secretary or treasurer of aliy state or territory on whose behalf