appropriated to the education of any poor orphan child or children of the proper county.
Judgements subject to appeals.Sect. 146. The judgment rendered under the six preceding sections shall be subject to appeals as in cases of assault and battery and affrays, and shall be collected in the same manner.
OFFENCES COMMITTED BY CHEATS, SWINDLERS, AND OTHER FRAUDULENT PERSONS.
Parties to frauds, how punished.Sect. 147. All and every person who shall be a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any lands, tenements, or bereditaments, goods or chattels, or any right or interest issuing out of the same, to any bond, suit, judgment or execution, contract or conveyance had, made, or contrived, with intent to deceive and defraud others, or to defeat, hinder, or delay creditors or others of their just debts, damages, or demands; of who, being parties as aforesaid, at any time shall wittingly and willingly put in use, avow, maintain), justify, or defend the same or any of them, as true, and done, had, or made in good faith, or upon good consideration, or shall sell, alien, or assign, any of the lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, or other things before mentioned, to him, her, or them conveyed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, he, she, or they so offending, shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Person falsely representing his respectability, wealth, &c., and thereby defrauding. Penalty.Sect. 148. If any person, by false representations of his own respectability, wealth, or mercantile correspondence and connections, shall obtain a credit thereby, defraud any person or persons of money, goods, chattels, or any valuable thing, or if any person shall cause or procure others to report falsely of his honesty, wealth, or mercantile character, and by thus imposing upon any person or persons, obtain credit, and thereby fraudulently get into possession of goods, wares, or merchandise, or any valuable thing, every such offender shall be deemed a swindler; and on conviction, shall be sentenced to return the property so fraudulently obtained, if it can be done, and shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding six months: Proviso.Provided, That this section shall apply only to representations which shall