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Punishment for forging certificate of commissioners or other instrument under this Act, &c.
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95. If any person or persons shall forge, counterfeit, or alter, or cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, or knowingly or wilfully act or assist in the forging, counterfeiting, or altering, any certificate or certificates of the commissioners for the execution of this Act, or any of them, or any order, certificate, receipt or receipts, to be given or made by any officer of his Majesty’s Exchequer or Treasury or of the Bank of Ireland, in pursuance of this Act, or shall wilfully deliver any such forged, counterfeited, or altered order, certificate, or receipt to the auditor of the receipt of his Majesty’s Exchequer in Ireland, or to any officer appointed by him, or to the teller thereof, or to the commissioners for the execution of this Act, or any of them, or to any officer or officers appointed by them or any of them, in the execution of the powers of this Act, or shall utter any such forged, counterfeited, or altered order, certificate or certificates, receipt or receipts, knowing the same to be forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud his Majesty, or any body or bodies politic or corporate or any person whomsoever, then and in every such case all and every person or persons so offending, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be transported beyond the seas for life, or for any term not less than seven years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding four years nor less than two years.
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