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252 the respective places, and in default of payment shall be condemned to banishment for the term of from two to eight years.

Should false money, whatever the metal may be, be found, besides the confiscation of everthing mentioned in the preceding clause, and besides a fine, equal to that the false money would represent, if legal, the offender shall be punished with all the penalties inflicted by the law on coiners; should the offender be unable to pay the fine, the metal shall be melted, and held, together with all the property that may have been recovered, for the benefit of the informer, and those who seized it.