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§§ 6823-6829 imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years, instead of by the punishments prescribed by those sections,

§ 6823. The use of a matured check or other order for the payment of money, as a means of obtaining any signature, money or property, such as is specified in the last two sections, by a person who knows that a drawer thereof is not entitled to draw for the sum specified therein, upon the drawee, is the use of a false token within the meaning of those sections, although no representation is made in respect thereto.

§ 6824. Every person who obtains any money or property from another, or obtains the signature of another to any written instrument, the false making of which would be forgery, by means of any false or fraudulent sale of property or pretended property by auction, or by any of the practices known as mock auctions, 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 one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and, in addition thereto, he forfeits any license he may hold to act as an auctioneer, and is forever disqualified from receiving a license to act as auctioneer within this territory.

§ 6825. Every captain or other officer or person in command or charge of any vessel, who, within this territory, willfully wrecks, sinks or otherwise injures or destroys such vessel, or any cargo in such vessel, or wiifully permits the same to be wrecked, sunk or otherwise injured or destroyed, with intent to prejudice or defraud an insurer or any other person, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison for life.

§ 6826. Every person other than such as are embraced within the last section, who is guilty of any act therein prohibited, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years and not less than three.

§ 6827. Every person guilty of fitting out any vessel, or lading any cargo on board of any vessel, with intent to cause or permit the same to be wrecked, sunk, or otherwise injured or destroyed, and thereby to prejudice or defraud an insurer or any other person, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years, and not less than three.

§ 6828. Every person guilty of preparing, making or subscribing, any false or fraudulent manifest, invoice, bill of lading, boat's register or protest, with intent to defraud another, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both.

§ 6829. Every person who wilfully burns, or in any other manner injures or destroys any property whatever, which is at