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PENAL CODE.

Sec. 625. If the false token by which any money or property is obtained in violation of sections 623 and 624 is a promissory note or other negotiable evidence of debt purporting to issued by or under the authority of any banking company or corporation not in existence, the person guilty of such cheat is panishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding seven years, instead of by the punishments prescribed by those sections.

Sec. 626. The use of a matured check, or other order for the payment of money, as a means of obtaining any signature, money or property, such as is specified in the last two sections, by a person who knows that a drawer thereof is not entitled to draw for the sum specified therein, upon the drawee, is the use of a false token within the meaning of those sections, although no representation is made in respect thereto.

Sec. 627. Every person who obtains any money or property from another, or obtains the signature of another to any written instrument, the false making of which would be forgery, by means of any false or fraudulent sale of property or pretended property by auction, or by any of the practices known as mock auctions, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding three years, or in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment; und in addition thereto he forfeits any license he may hold to act as an auctioneer, and is forever disqualified from receiving a license to act as auctioneer within this territory.

CHAPTER VIII.

FRAUDULENTLY FITTING OUT AND DESTROYING VESSELS.

Section 628. Captain or other officer, willfully destroying vessel, &c.

629. Other persons willfully destroying vessel, &c.

630. Fitting out or lading any vessel, with intent to wreck the same.

631. Making false manifest, &c.