Acts of the State of Ohio Volume 74 - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... to let, lease, dispose of, alien, or convey, any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, or other estate, real or personal, or any bill, order, or warrant drawn by any auditor for the payment of money at any public treasury, with intent to defraud; or Utters or publishes as true and genuine any such false, altered, forged,counterfeited, falsely printed, or photographed) matter, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, counterfeited, falsely printed, or photographed, with intent tc defraud, is guilty of forgery, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than twenty years nor less than one year. 73 v. 59, § 1. Sec. 19. Whoever, with intent to defraud, uses, utters, or publishes, or attempts to use, utter, or publish, any document, deed, or paper, purporting to be of an official or public character, and to be signed by the governor by means of a stamp or press engraved with and imprinting a fac-simile oi his sign-manual, knowing such signature to have been affixed thereto falsely, and without the authority of the governor, shall be deemed guilty of forgery, and punished accordingly. 71 v. 3, §§ 1, 2 Sec. 20. Whoever counteifeits, forges, or alters auyticket, check, order, coupon, receipt for fare, or pass, printed, written, lithographed, or engraved, issued by any railroad company authorized to run or operate a railroad or street railroad within the state of Ohio, or by any toll-bridge company authorized to build or maintain any toll-bridge over the Ohio river, or acioss any other river in the state of Ohio, or by the owner, agent, leasee, manager, or keeper of any Buch railroad or bridge, and designed to entitle the holder to ride on the cars of such road, or pass over such bridge; or knowingly has in his possession, or utters,...