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(b) any owner of any share or interest of or in the debt of any public body, or of or in the debt or capital stock of any body corporate, company, or society; or

(c.) any owner of any dividend, coupon, certificate or money payable in respect of any such share or interest as aforesaid; or

(d.) any owner of any share or interest in any claim for a grant of land from the Crown, or for any scrip or other payment or allowance in lieu of such grant of land; or

(e.) any person duly authorized by any power of attorney to transfer any such share, or interest, or to receive any dividend, coupon, certificate or money, on behalf of the person entitled thereto

and thereby transfers or endeavours to transfer any share or interest belonging to such owner, or thereby obtains or endeavours to obtain, as if he were the true and lawful owner or were the person so authorized by such power of attorney, any money due to any such owner or payable to the person so authorized, or any certificate, coupon, or share warrant, grant of land, or scrip, or allowance in lieu thereof, or other document which, by any law in force, or any usage existing at the time, is deliverable to the owner of any such stock or fund, or to the person authorized by any such power of attorney. R.S..C. c. 165, s. 9.

459. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and ment in false liable to seven years' imprisonment who, without lawful authority or excuse (the proof of which shall lie on him) acknowledges, in the name of any other person, before any court, judge or other person lawfully authorized in that behalf, any recognizance of bail, or any cognovit actionem, or consent for judgment, or judgment, or any deed or other instrument. R.S.C., c. 165, s. 41.

Interpretation of terms.

PART XXXV.

OFFENCES RELATING TO THE COIN.

460. In this part, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and expressions are used in the following senses:

(a.) "Current gold or silver coin," includes any gold or silver coin coined in any of Her Majesty's mints, or gold or silver coin of any foreign prince or state or country, or other coin lawfully current, by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise, in any part of Her Majesty's dominions.

(b.) "Current copper coin," includes copper coin coined in any of Her Majesty's mints, or lawfully current, by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise, in any part of Her Majesty's dominions.

(c.)" Copper coin," includes any coin of bronze or mixed metal and every other kind of coin other than gold or silver.

(d.)

(d.) "Counterfeit" means false, not genuine.

(i.) Any genuine coin prepared or altered so as to resemble or pass for any current coin of a higher denomination is a counterfeit coin.

(ii.) A coin fraudulently filed or cut at the edges so as to remove the milling, and on which a new milling has been added to restore the appearance of the coin, is a counterfeit coin.

(e.) "Gild" and "silver," as applied to coin, include casing with gold or silver respectively, and washing and colouring by any means whatsoever with any wash or materials capable of producing the appearance of gold or silver respectively.

(f)" Utter" includes "tender" and "put off." R.S.C., c. 167, s. 1.

completed.

461. Every offence of making any counterfeit coin, or of When offence buying, selling, receiving, paying, tendering, uttering, or putting off, or of offering to buy, sell, receive, pay, utter or put off, any counterfeit coin is deemed to be complete, although the coin so made or counterfeited, or bought, sold, received, paid, tendered, uttered or put off, or offered to be bought, sold, received, paid, tendered, uttered or put off, was not in a fit state to be uttered, or the counterfeiting thereof was not finished or perfected. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 27.

462. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Counterfeitliable to imprisonment for life who

(a.) makes or begins to make any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin; or

(b.) gilds or silvers any coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin; or

(c.) gilds or silvers any piece of silver or copper, or of coarse gold or coarse silver, or of any metal or mixture of metals respectively, being of a fit size and figure to be coined, and with intent that the same shall be coined into counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin; or

(d.) gilds any current silver coin, or files or in any manner alters such coin, with intent to make the same resemble or pass for any current gold coin; or

(e.) gilds or silvers any current copper coin, or files or in any manner alters such coin, with intent to make the same resemble or pass for any current gold or silver coin. R.S.C., c. 167, ss. 3 and 4.

ing coins, &c.

463. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Dealing in liable to imprisonment for life who, without lawful author- and importing ity or excuse the proof whereof shall lie on him

counterfeit

coin.

(a.)

Manufacture of copper coin and importa tion of uncur

rent copper coin.

Exportation

of counterfeit coin.

Making instruments for coining.

(a.) buys, sells, receives, pays or puts off, or offers to buy, sell, receive, pay or put off, at or for a lower rate or value than the same imports, or was apparently intended to import, any counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for any current gold or silver coin; or

(b.) imports or receives into Canada any counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin knowing the same to be counterfeit. R.S.C., c. 167, ss. 7 and 8.

464. Every one who manufactures in Canada any copper coin, or imports into Canada any copper coin, other than current copper coin, with the intention of putting the same into circulation as current copper coin, is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars for every pound Troy of the weight thereof; and all such copper coin so manufactured or imported shall be forfeited .to Her Majesty. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 28.

465. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to two years' imprisonment who, without lawful authority or excuse the proof whereof shall lie on him, exports or puts on board any ship, vessel or boat, or on any railway or carriage or vehicle of any description whatsoever, for the purpose of being exported from Canada, any counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for any current coin or for any foreign coin of any prince, country or state, knowing the same to be counterfeit. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 9.

466. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life who, without lawful authority or excuse the proof whereof shall lie on him, makes or mends, or begins or proceeds to make or mend, or buys or sells, or has in his custody or possession-

(a.) any puncheon, counter puncheon, matrix, stamp, die, pattern or mould, in or upon which there is made or impressed, or which will make or impress, or which is adapted and intended to make or impress, the figure, stamp or ap parent resemblance of both or either of the sides of any current gold or silver coin, or of any coin of any foreign prince, state or country, or any part or parts of both or either of such sides; or

(b.) any edger, edging or other tool, collar, instrument or engine adapted and intended for the marking of coin round the edges with letters, grainings, or other marks or figures apparently resembling those on the edges of any such coin, knowing the same to be so adapted and intended; or

(c.) any press for coinage, or any cutting engine for cutting, by force of a screw or of any other contrivance, round blanks out of gold, silver or other metal or mixture of metals, or any other machine, knowing such press to be a press for coinage, or knowing such engine or machine to have been

used

used or to be intended to be used for or in order to the false making or counterfeiting of any such coin. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 24.

Canada.

467. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Bringing inliable to imprisonment for life who, without lawful author- struments for coining from ity or excuse the proof whereof shall lie on him, knowingly mints into conveys out of any of Her Majesty's mints into Canada, any puncheon, counter puncheon, matrix, stamp, die,. pattern, mould, edger, edging or other tool, collar, instrument, press or engine, used or employed in or about the coining of coin, or any useful part of any of the several articles aforesaid, or any coin, bullion, metal or mixture of metals. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 25.

rent gold or

468. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Clipping curliable to fourteen years' imprisonment who impairs, dimin- silver coin. ishes or lightens any current gold or silver coin, with intent that the coin so impaired, diminished, or lightened may pass for current gold or silver coin. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 5.

rent coins.

469. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Defacing curliable to one year's imprisonment who defaces any current gold, silver or copper coin by stamping thereon any names or words, whether such coin is or is not thereby diminished or lightened, and afterwards tenders the same. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 17.

current coin.

470. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Possessing liable to seven years' imprisonment who unlawfully has in clippings of his custody or possession any filings or clippings, or any gold or silver bullion, or any gold or silver in dust, solution or otherwise, which have been produced or obtained by impairing, diminishing or lightening any current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to have been so produced or obtained. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 6.

counterfeit

471. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Possessing liable to three years' imprisonment who has in his custody or possession, knowing the same to be counterfeit, and with intent to utter the same or any of them

(a.) any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin; or

(b.) three or more pieces of counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current copper coin. R.S.C., c. 167, ss. 12 and 16.

472. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and Offences reliable to three years' imprisonment who

(a.) makes, or begins to make, any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current copper coin; or

specting cop

per coin.

(b.)

Offences respecting

(b.) without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which shall lie on him, knowingly

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(i.) makes or mends, or begins or proceeds to make or mend, or buys or sells, or has in his custody or possession, any instrument, tool or engine adapted and intended for counterfeiting any current copper coin;

(ii.) buys, sells, receives, pays or puts off, or offers to buy, sell, receive, pay or put off, any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for any current copper coin, at or for a lower rate of value than the same imports or was apparently intended to import. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 15.

473. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and foreign coins, liable to three years' imprisonment who—

Uttering counterfeit

gold or silver

coins.

Uttering light

(a.) makes, or begins to make, any counterfeit coin or silver coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any gold or silver coin of any foreign prince, state or country, not being current coin;

(b.) without lawful authority or excuse, the proof of which shall lie on him

(i.) brings into or receives in Canada any such counter. feit coin, knowing the same to be counterfeit ;

(ii) has in his custody or possession any such counterfeit coin knowing the same to be counterfeit, and with intent to put off the same; or

(c.) utters any such counterfeit coin; or

(d) makes any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any copper coin of any foreign prince, state or country, not being current coin. R.S.C., c. 167, ss. 19, 20, 21, 22 and 23.

474. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to fourteen years' imprisonment who utters any counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be counterfeit. R.S.C., c. 167, s. 10.

475. Every one is guilty of an indictable offence and coins, medals, liable to three years' imprisonment who

counterfeit copper coins,

&c.

(a.) utters, as being current, any gold or silver coin of less than its lawful weight, knowing such coin to have been impaired, diminished or lightened, otherwise than by lawful wear; or

(b.) with intent to defraud utters, as or for any current gold or silver coin, any coin not being such current gold or silver coin, or any medal, or piece of metal or mixed metals, resembling, in size, figure and colour, the current coin as or for which the same is so uttered, such coin, medal or piece of metal or mixed metals so uttered being of less value than the current coin as or for which the same is so uttered;

or

(c.)

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