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False Personation and Cheats. charge, forfeiture or penalty, or whereby any benefit might accrue to the party personating, or to a'ny other person,

Is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.

§ 6816. Every person who falsely personates another, and in such assumed character receives any money or property, knowing that it is intended to be delivered to the individual so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, or to that; of another person who is not entitled thereto, is punishable in the same manner and to the same extent as for larceny of the money or property so received.

§ 6817. Every person who falsely personates any public officer, civil or military, or any fireman or any private individual having special authority by law to perform any act affecting the rights or interests of another, or assumes, without authority, any uniform or badge by which such are usually distinguished, and in such assumed character does any act whereby another person is injured, defrauded, vexed or annoyed, is guilty of a mis­demeanor.

§ 6818. Any person found wearing the badge of the grand army of the republic not entitled to the same by being a member thereof, shall upon conviction before a justice of the peace or other officer having jurisdiction in such cases, be sub­ject to a fine not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each and every offense, together with costs of prosecution.

§ 6819. One-fourth ·of the fine shall be paid to the com­plainant, the remaining three-fourths to be paid to the county treasurer for the benefit of any honorably discharged soldiers or sailors who may be found needy in such county, and upon application therefor to the county auditor, if there be one, or if not to the chairman of the county board of commissioners, such auditor or chairman of the board shall issue a warrant on the treasurer for so much of such money as he may deem right and proper.

§ 6820. Every person who, with intent to cheat or defraud another, designedly, by color or aid of any false token or writing, or other false pretense, obtains the signature of any person to any written instrument, or obtains from any person any money or property, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding three times the value of the money or property so obtained, or by both such fine and im­prisonment.

§ 6821. Every person who designedly, by color or aid of any false token or writing, or other false pretense, obtains the signature of any person to any written instrument, or obtains from any person any money or property for any alleged charitable or benevolent purpose whatever, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding the value of the money or property so obtained, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 6822. If the false token by which any money or property is obtained, in violation of sections 6820 and 6821, is a promissory note or other negotiable evidence of debt purporting to be issued by or under the authority of any banking company or corporation not in existence, the person guilty of such cheat is punishable by