covenant, bank-bill or note, post note, check, draft, bill of exchange, contract, promissory note, due-bill for the payment of money or property, receipt for money or property, power of attorney, any auditor's warrant for the payment of money at the treasury, county order, or any accountable receipt, or any order or warrant, or request for the payment of money or the delivery of goods or chattels of any kind, or for the delivery of any instrument of writing or acquittance, release, or receipt for money or goods, or any acquittance or release or discharge, for any debt, account, action, suit, demand, or other thing, real or personal, or any transfer or assurance of money, stock, goods, chattels, or other property whatever, or any letter of attorney, or other power, to receive money, or to receive or transfer stock or annuities, or to let, lease, dispose of, alien, or convey any goods or chattels, lands or tenements, or other estate, real or personal, or any acceptance or indorsement of any bill of exchange, promissory note, draft or order, or assignment of any bond, writing obligatory, or promissory note, for money or other property; or shall counterfeit or forge the seal or handwriting of another, with intent to damage or defraud any person or persons, body politic or corporate, whether the said person or persons, body politic or corporate, reside in, or belong to, this territory or not; or shall utter, publish, pass, or attempt to pass, as true and genuine, or cause to be uttered, published, passed, or attempted to be passed as true and genuine, any of the above-named false, altered, forged, or counterfeited matters, as above specified and described, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to prejudice, damage, or defraud any person or persons, body politic or corporate, whether the said person or persons, body politic or corporate, reside in this territory or not: every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of forgery, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary, for a term not less than one year, nor more than fourteen years.
Counterfeiting gold and silver coin. Penalty for.Sect. 71. Every person who shall counterfeit any of the species of gold and silver coin now current, or that shall hereafter be current in this territory, or shall pass or give in payment, or offer to give in payment, such counterfeited coin, or permit, cause, or procure the same to be altered or