Page:Revised Codes of the State of North Dakota 1895.pdf/1343

Forgery and Counterfeiting. right or interest, either against or in favor of this state, 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.

§ 7432. Same. Forging passenger tickets. Every person who, with intent to defraud, forges, counterfeits or falsely alters any ticket, check or other paper or 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.

§ 7433. Same. Forging United States stamps. 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.

§ 7434. Same. False entries in corporate books. 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 state, or in any book of accounts kept by any such corporation or its officers, and delivered or intended to be delivered, 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.

§ 7435. Fourth degree. False entries by corporate officers. 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.

§ 7436. Same. Counterfeit coin. 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.

§ 7437. Punishment of forgery. Forgery is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary 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 not less than five.

3. Forgery in the third degree, not less than one and not exceeding five years. 1309