any bank as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to injure or defraud this state, any body politic or corporate, or any person or persons, every person so offending and who shall be duly convicted, shall be punished by confinement at hard labor not exceeding three years, or by fine not exceding two thousaud dollars, and by binding to good behavior not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the court before whom the conviction may be; and if, after the conviction, the same person shall be guilty a second time of the like offence, and shall be duly convicted thereof, or if at the same term any person shall be duly charged and convicted in three several instances, then such person may be adjudged a common utterer of counterfeit bills, and shall be confined at hard labor not more than ten years, and not less than two years. 58 ART. CCLXXXVI.59 If any person shall bring into, or shall have in his possession within this state, any false, forged, and counterfeited bill or bills, note or notes, in the similitude. of the bills or notes payable to the bearer thereof, issued by or for any bank or banking company which is or shall be established in this state, or in any part of the United States, for the purpose of rendering the same current as true, or with intent to pass the same, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, every such offender, upon due conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement at hard labor not exceeding three years.60 ART. CCLXXXVII.61 If any person shall engrave, form, make, or mend, or shall begin to engrave, form, make, or mend any plate or plates, paper, rolling press, or other tool, instrument, or material devised, adapted, and designed for the stamp 58 See note 53, ante. 5911, act 20 March, 1818, 1 D. 393. 60 See note 53, ante. 61 § 12, act 20 March, 1818, 1 D. 393. ing, forging, and making any false and counterfeit certificates, bills, or notes which have been or which shall be issued as aforesaid by or for any debt of this state, or by or for any bank or banking company which is or shall be established in this state, or in any other part of the United States, or shall have in his possession any such plate or plates engraven in any part, or any paper, rolling press, or other tool, instrument or material devised, adapted, and designed as aforesaid, with the intent to use and employ the same, or to cause or permit the same to be used and employed in forging and making any such false and counterfeit certificates, bills, or notes, every person so offending, who shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by confinement at hard labor, not exceeding seven years.62 ART. CCLXXXVIII.63 Any person or persons who shall furnish any slave, or slaves, with any false free papers, or certificates of birth or christening falsely showing such slave or slaves to be free born persons, shall be punished for each and every such offence as in case of forgery. 62 See note 53, ante. 63 § 8, act 6 March, 1819, 1 D. 399. BOOK THE SECOND. CHAPTER I. OF THE MEANS OF PREVENTING OFFENCES. CCLXXXIX. Power of justices to bind party to keep the peace, when breach committed or apprehended-CCXC. or when found with concealed weapons. ART. CCLXXXIX. Justices of the peace shall have full power, in all cases in which there shall appear to them, by oath, that a breach of the peace has been committed, or that there is just cause to apprehend that a breach of the peace is intended, to cause the party charged with such breach of the peace or intention of breaking the same, to be brought before them respectively, and direct him to give such security as the said justice may deem reasonable, to keep the peace of the [state], and to answer to the offence, if any has been committed, and in case of refusal to give such security, to commit the party so charged, by warrant to be directed and drawn as [prescribed by art. CCCCLXXXII], to the custody of the sheriff of the [2 parish], who shall thereupon imprison the said 13, act 3 May, 1805, 1 D. 631. 2 In the original act "sheriff of the county." Sheriffs of the county were superseded by sheriffs of each parish. See art. CCCCXXXI. |