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Forgery and Counterfeiting. writing, entitling or purporting to entitle the holder or proprietor thereof to a passage upon any railroad, or in any vessel or other public conveyance; and every person who, with like intent, sells, exchanges or delivers, or keeps or offers for sale, exchange or delivery, or receives upon any purchase, exchange or delivery, any such ticket, knowing the same to have been forged, coun­terfeited or falsely altered, is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6768. Every person who forges, counterfeits or alters any postage or revenue stamp of the United States, or who sells or offers, or keeps for sale, as genuine or as forged, any such stamp, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited or falsely altered, is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6769. Every person who with intent to defraud, makes any false entry, or falsely alters any entry made in any book of accounts kept by any corporation within this territory, or in any book of accounts kept by any such corporation or its officers, and delivered, or intended to be deli ered, to any person dealing with such corporation, by which any pecuniary obligation, claim or credit is, or purports to be, discharged, diminished, increased, created, or in any manner affected, is guilty of forgery in the third degree.

§ 6770. Every person who, being a member or officer, or in the employment of any corporation, association, or partnership, falsifies, alters, erases, obliterates or destroys any account or book of accounts or records belonging to such corporation, association, or partnership, or appertaining to their business, or makes any false entries in such account or book, or keeps any false account in such business, with intent to defraud his employers, or to conceal any embezzlement of their money or property, or any defalcation or other misconduct, committed by any person in the management of their business,: is guilty of for­gery in the fourth degree.

§ 6771. Every person who has in his possession any coun­terfeit of any gold or silver coin, whether of the United States, or of any foreign country or government, knowing the same to be counterfeited, with intent to sell, utter, use, circulate or export the same as true or as false, or by causing the same to be so uttered or passed, is guilty of forgery in the fourth degree.

§ 6772. Forgery is punishable by imprisonment in the terri­torial prison as follows:

1. Forgery in the first degree, by imprisonment not less than ten years.

2. Forgery in the second degree not exceeding ten years and and not less than five.

3. Forgery in the third degree, not exceeding five years.

4. Forgery in the fourth degree, by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding two years, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.

§ 6773. Every person who, with intent to defraud, utters or publishes as true, any forged, altered or counterfeited instrument, or any counterfeit gold or silver coin, the forging, altering or counterfeiting of which is hereinbefore declared to be punishable, knowing such instrument or coin to be forged, altered or coun­terfeited, is guilty of forgery in the same degree as if he had forged, altered or counterfeited the instrument or coin so uttered, except as in the n ext section specified.

§ 6774. If it appears on the trial of the indictment, that the accused received such forged or counterfeited instrument or