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Rh such note, certificate, bill of credit, or security purports to have been issued, shall be admitted as evidence for the purpose of proving the same to be forged or counterfeit.

Sec. 10. If any person shall fraudulently connect together different parts of several bank notes, or other genuine instruments, in such (manner as to produce an additional note or instrument, with intent to pass all of them as genuine, the same shall be deemed a forgery in like manner as if each of them had been falsely made or forged.

Sec. 11. If any fictitious or pretended signature, purporting to be the signature of an officer or agent of any corporation, shall be fraudulently affixed to any instrument or writing, purporting to be a note, draft, or other evidence of debt issued by such corporation, with intent to pass tho same as true, it shall be deemed a forgery, though no such person may ever have been an officer or agent of such corporation, nor such corporation ever have existed.

Sec. 12. In any case where the intent to defraud is necessary to constitute the offense of forgery, or any other offense that may be prosecuted, it shall be sufficient to allege in the indictment, an intent to defraud, without naming therein the particular person or body corporate intended to be defrauded; and on the trial of such indictment, it shall be sufficient, and shall not be deemed a variance if there appear to be an intent to defraud the United States, or any state, territory, county, city, town, or village, or any body corporate, or any public officer in his official capacity, or any copartnership or member thereof, or any particular person.

Sec. 13. Every person who shall counterfeit any gold or silver coin, current by law or usage within this territory, and every person who shall have in his possession, at the same time, ten or moro pieces of false money or coin, counterfeited in the similitude of any gold or silver coin current as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false and counterfeited, and with intent to utter or pass the same as true, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison, not more than five years, nor less than one year.

Sec. 14. Every person who shall have in his possession, any number of pieces less than ten of the counterfeit coin mentioned