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CRIMINAL CODE.

the said C. D., (or whose name is unknown to the grand jury,) with intent to commit murdur (or rape, robbery, or larceny, or other public offense, describing it generally,) therein, by forcibly bursting or breaking the wall, or an outer door, or a window of such house, (or as the case may be,) or,

No. 18.

Broke into and entered in the night time, the dwelling house of C D., in which there was at the time a human being, name, the said C. D., (or whose name is unknown to the grand jury,) with intent to commit a rape, (or larceny, or any other public offense, describing it generally,) therein, by unlocking an outer door, by means of false keys, or by picking or forcing the lock of the outer door, or as the case may be.

No. 19.

In an indictment for forgery and counterfeiting.

Forged, or counterfeited, or falsely altered, by erasing a material part thereof, (or as the case may be,) an instrument purporting to be (or being) the last will and testament of C. D., devising certain real and personal property, with intent to defraud; or,

No. 20.

Forged a certificate purporting to have been issued by J. C., an officer duly authorized to make such certificate of the acknowledgment of C. D., of the execution by him, of a conveyance to E. F., of certain real property in the town of [blank], with the intent to defraud the said C. D.; or,

No. 21.

Falsely made an impression, purporting to be the impression of the great scal of the territory, on an instrument in writing, being (or purporting to be) a [blank], (stating generally the purport of the instrument, with the intent to defraud; or,

No. 22.

Counterfeited a gold (or silver) coin of the republic of Mexico, called a dollar, which was at that time current, by custom or usage, within this territory; or,