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§§ 6762-6767 corporation or association, or of an interest in its property or profits, with intent to defraud, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.

§ 6762. Every officer, and every agent of any corporation, municipal or otherwise, of any joint stock association formed or existing under or by virtue of the laws of this territory, or of any other state, government or country, who, within this territory, wilfully signs or procures to be signed with intent to issue, sell or pledge, or to cause to be issued, sold or pledged, or who wilfully issues, sells or pledges, or causes to be issued, sold or pledged, any false or fraudulent bond or other evidence of debt against such corporation or association of any instrument purporting to be a bond or other evidence of debt against such corporation or association, the signing, issuing, selling or pledging of which has not been duly authorized by the board of directors or common council or other managing body or officers of such corporation having authority to issue the same, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.

§ 6763. Every person who counterfeits any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or of any foreign government or country, with intent to sell, utter, use or circulate the same as genuine, within this territory, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.

§ 6764. Every person who counterfeits any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States or of any foreign country or government, with intent to export the same, or permit them to be exported to injure or defraud any foreign government, or the subjects thereof, is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6765. Every person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits:

1. Any instrument in writing, being or purporting to be any process issued by any competent court, magistrate or officer, or being, or purporting to be, any pleading, proceeding, bond or undertaking filed or entered in any court, or being, or purporting to be, any certificate, order or allowance by any competent court or officer, or being, or purporting to be, any license or authority authorized by any statute; or,

2. Any instrument or writing, being or purporting to be the act of another, by which any pecuniary demand or obligation is, or purports to be created, increased, discharged or diminished, or by which any rights or property whatever, are, or purport to be, transferred, conveyed, discharged, diminished, or in any manner affected, the punishment of which is not hereinbefore prescribed, by which false making, altering, forging or counterfeiting, any person may be affected, bound, or in any way injured in his per son or property,

Is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6766. Every person who, with intent to defraud, makes any false entry or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept in the office of the auditor of this territory, or in the office of the treasurer of this territory, or of any county treasurer, by which any demand or obligation, claim, right or interest, either against or in favor of the people of this territory, or any county or town, or any individual, is, or purports to be, discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6767. Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits, or falsely alters any ticket, check or other paper or