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Forging Public Records. jail not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both.

§ 6343. Every person who carries or sends into any prison anything useful to aid any prisoner in making his escape, with intent thereby to facilitate the escape of any prisoner confined therein, is punishable as follows:

1. If such prisoner was confined upon any charge or conviction of felony, by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

2. If such prisoner was confined otherwise than upon a charge or conviction of felony, by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine of five hundred dollars, or both.

§ 6344. Every person who wilfully and knowingly conceals any prisoner, who, having been confined in prison upon a charge or conviction of misdemeanor, has escaped therefrom, is guilty of misdemeanor.

§ 6345. Every person who wilfully assists any prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from the custody of any officer or person having the lawful charge of such prisoner under any process of law or under any lawful arrest, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 6346. The term prison in this chapter includes territorial prisons, county jails, and every place designated by law for the keeping of persons held in custody under process of law or under any lawful arrest.

§ 6347. The term prisoner in this chapter includes every person held in custody under process of law issued from a court of competent jurisdiction, whether civil or criminal, or under any lawful arrest.

§ 6348. Every clerk, register, or other officer having the custody of any record, map, or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court of justice, filed or deposited in any public office, who is guilty of stealing, wilfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, altering or falsifying, or fraudulently removing or secreting such record, map, book, paper, or proceeding, or who permits any other person so to do, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years, and in addition thereto forfeits his office.

§ 6349. Every person not an officer such as is mentioned in the last section, who is guilty of any of the acts specified in that section, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding five years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 6350. Every person who knowingly procures or offers any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office within this territory, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed or registered or recorded under any law of this territory or of the United States, is guilty of felony.